3D conferencing could be the future of Skype envisioned by Microsoft

Many of the projects that Microsoft Research works on never see the light of day as a product or commercial application. In fact, Microsoft's main R&D lab doesn't have as its first goal to create things directly for the market. But many of the future products and services that the company ends up producing are nourished by its advances and research. The latest could be Viewport and the implementation of its technology in Skype

Viewport is a videoconference system in which each participant is recorded by a camera and infrared system that allows their figure to be reconstructed in 3D and transmitted in real time.The system recognizes the position of the users, being able to build a kind of hologram that simulates a face-to-face meeting, thus achieving much more immersive videoconferences

Although the system was presented in April of last year as another Microsoft Research project, in recent days it has again attracted attention following a couple of new job offers from the company. These suggest the possibility that in Redmond are preparing to bring it to market And if it's not Viewport it sounds very similar.

In one of the offers, published on the Microsoft recruitment website, a software development engineer is sought who would work in the team in charge of developing the hardware and software necessary to achieve more realistic videoconferences, which allow the construction and display of virtual doubles of the participants.The goal is to get as close to an in-person meeting as possible by giving each user a position, allowing them to look around the room and direct their attention to the other participants as if they were face-to-face.

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The job offer itself explains that the engineer would start working in a small team with short-term demands but great ambitions for the future. Without going any further, they hope to be able to extend the platform to other communication scenarios for users via Skype When this will happen is, as always, difficult to say, but the team is confident that their work can revolutionize communications and reach millions of consumers around the world."

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