CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE PIONEERING MIXED REALITY TECHNOLOGY CHAPTER TWO MICROSOFT IS BORN CHAPTER THREE THE IBM DEAL CHAPTER FOUR THE BIRTH OF WINDOWS THE INTERNET REVOLUTION CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX MICROSOFT ENTERS GAMING CHAPTER SEVEN GOING MOBILE CHAPTER EIGHT MICROSOFT SURFACE CHAPTER NINE THE MICROSOFT OF THE FUTURE 88 TIMELINE 98 SOURCE NOTES ESSENTIAL FACTS 100 INDEX GLOSSARY 102 ABOUT THE AUTHOR ADDITIONAL RESOURCES 104 ABOUT THE CONSULTANT 112 4 16 26 36 48 62 70 80 106 110 112
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PIONEERING MIXED-REALITY TECHNOLOGY the first time Mark Griswold a professor at Microsoft’s HoloLens around his head the Case Western Reserve University strapped experience was breathtaking I immediately knew my world had changed that day he later said in a National Geographic article 1 When he put on the HoloLens Griswold saw a vivid three-dimensional hologram of the surface of Mars projected over his view of the real world It was as if Griswold were standing on top of a mountain on the Red Planet itself A National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA scientist was standing next to him and the two men could chat and interact together But the scientist was a holographic image too Microsoft’s HoloLens packs sophisticated computing and display technology into a compact headset 5
