 Anyhow, we were talking about Microsoft, and on that note, I would like to show you guys something that we did. We went to Microsoft. You guys have already seen a little bit of this. I went to Microsoft, to their campus, and looked at some of the research projects that they were working on, and it was a pretty interesting trip. So take a look, and we'll be right back. I never thought I'd see this with my eyes, with my eyeballs. I figured I'd have to get implants to see it. I'm saying 92, there's 91 buildings before this. Pretty amazing. Hey. Hey, Josh. How's it going? Steve, how are you? Good to see you. So this is Steve Clayton. He's going to show us around the campus and take us into the dark, deep chambers that no one else is ever allowed to see, right? That's what we're going, yeah. That's what you promised me. Welcome to Microsoft. All right, let's do it. I'm excited I can get like a cloud computing shirt, t-shirt. That's your color. It's my size, too. Small, lady, small. What you need is some golf gear. Do you have golf gear here? Ballmer's a golfer, right? Is he golfed? Or no? I think so. I've not played around with him. Are you allowed to refer to him as Ballmer? Steve. Because that's against rules. You can't say Ballmer. There you go. Look, golf bag. Yeah, but it doesn't say Microsoft on it. I'll bet it does. No, it doesn't. Look at this line. What are the savings like? Wait a second. This is a line for Zunes? Yeah. What do you mean? Music? No, no, but is there any special reason why there's a line for Zunes? We've been out of stock for a long time. And now they're back in stock. Zunes are back in stock at Microsoft and there's a line. This is insane. This is probably the only place where you'll see a line for Zunes, actually, which is... They're going to kick us out. They're going to kick us out? Now, this kind of makes me want to buy a Zune, though. I might get in this line. How much is the 64? This is a visitor center. This is designed just to kind of show off what you guys are doing. Yeah, it gives a little sense of how you... A bit of the history of where we come from. Microsoft invented the typewriter. Yeah, I'm not sure... You invented the Atari. You've got a General Electric television. Are you taking credit for the GE television? I feel like that's somewhat disingenuous. My job is to work with all of the kind of product groups, all of the research teams across Microsoft who are looking at trends like natural user interface and social computing and cloud computing and sort of help to tell the story of what Microsoft is doing across 90,000 people. Where are we right now? We are on main campus for Microsoft in Redmond in Building 99, which is the headquarters for Microsoft Research worldwide and the location of our Redmond research lab. Hey. So, who are you guys and what are you working on? So, I'm Brandon Lloyd. Are you? Nice to meet you. I'm Nicolás Jokulcsi. Nice to meet you. And we both work in the Extreme Computing Group. It's kind of a lab within Microsoft Research. Extreme Computing? Right. Do you drink a lot of Mountain Dew? This is a simple mobile augmented reality system. So, we have this image and the cameras on the tablets that you see here, and we've got this one fixed on the tripod, they are tracking that image. So, this is tracking here and then you guys are tracking individually on these tablets? Right. By finding this image in the video feed, it can figure out where the camera is in space. And then once it knows where the real camera is, it can render virtual objects from that same point of view and then overlay them on the background. Okay. So, you guys have another mode on here that's called Connect Mode and we brought Steve in to help us out with this. And can you explain what's going on with this? We hooked up a Connect Camera to this and what we're doing is we're capturing whoever sits in front of the camera in real time. This is disturbing. So, this is kind of a different kind of video chat. Alright, let me try this out. Let me get a... There he is. Okay, spin him around. It is, I feel like this isn't right. People shouldn't be allowed to do this. At the Connect Camera. You want me to look at where? Yeah, look at the Connect Camera. Here? Okay. Okay, and then we'll freeze it and now you can come and explore yourself with the tablet. That is something I enjoy doing, so... Oh, wow. This is very upsetting. Very upsetting. This is horrific. I mean, this is a true horror. This is like a scene from a Saw movie. So, we're making our way through the Microsoft campus here, but we're going to stop and take a look at this anechoic chamber they've got where they do sound testing, they test webcams there and it's supposed to be pretty cool. And I'm hoping I can get maybe a little nap in if I play my cards right. Hey. Hey, how are you? I'm Josh. Good. I'm Dale Sieg. Oh, thanks for letting us come in here, Dale. I betcha. And what are we going to look at? So, we are going to look at one of our anechoic chambers here at Microsoft. Wow, this is really disorienting. Yes. This is... It's kind of making me a little nauseous. Is that normal? Depending on the person, it can be. And so, if you guys get a little... I can barely hear you. Yeah. Is that normal? That is normal. So, you're passing out? What if I just passed out right now? Has that happened before? That has not happened before. Has anybody freaked out from this? But we've had to escort people out really quickly. So, we test all of our acoustic products, obviously. So, our webcams and headsets. The Kinect was tested in here. We actually also test non-acoustic products like for our mice and keyboards and other devices that have some mechanical characteristics that might generate a sound. We'll put them in this anechoic chamber so we can actually characterize a sound and identify if it's a buzzing or a hum, where the sound is coming from, that sort of thing. Have you ever come in here and discovered Steve Ballmer asleep, taking a little, stealing away a little nap and had to wake him up? No, no. Really? Not yet. You can tell me. No, no, I have not. You know, when you think about it, with the lights off and this sound, it would be kind of like sensory deprivation. Yes. You know, can you imagine what you'd see in that pitch black? Everybody's very uncomfortable with Ballmer jokes around here, I have to say. Every time I mention Ballmer, people are like, I can't comment on that. It's like he's listening, watching. You know, it's what I've thought about it. I actually, could I go in here and just stand in the dark in the chamber? Sure. Okay, great. Oh my God. Wait a second. I might actually be having some kind of vision. I'm seeing Steve Ballmer napping. This is amazing. This vision of Steve Ballmer, I mean, flying. This is really cool. We're in the Microsoft model shop. This is where Microsoft's actual products are designed and built. We're talking to Carson Agard, who is your model maker here. Yes. And so if a new Xbox were coming, if there was a new version, which you can tell me if there is, it's no problem. Okay, I will. So what are we looking at here? You've got a table full of... We're looking at basically a variety of what we do down here, broken down to everything from raw 3D printed parts to some CNC parts. This is a 3D printed wrench that you printed in one piece. Correct. And you can use it like an actual... Yeah, so that shows the ability to be able to print multiple parts together as an assembly. So we're here with Young Kim, who's one of the designers who worked on the ArcMouse, which is kind of an award-winning, pretty big product as far as mice go. Yeah. And let's kind of start it with nothing more than just hairbands and foam core, where we were playing around with pieces that bent and flexed. So you have to take this up to Balmer, right, and say, look, this will work. You don't go right into his office. We didn't check in with Steve Balmer this time. He doesn't approve all the early mice designs? No, no, no. That was my understanding. He trusts us to make the right decisions. Okay, good. That's good. I really need to get something like this or this because I'm using like an old... Every time I reach into my bag, there's like a ball there. What kind of mouse do you have? Yeah, it's one of these guys. This is like a classic mouse. Oh, okay. Okay? Have you ever seen anything this advanced? I think someone as stylish as you are, I think, deserves something like this. Well, that is a shameless flattery, and I appreciate it. But you know what's cool about this is actually I don't like big mice. And this is a little bit bigger of a footprint, but it feels almost non-existent when you're holding it in your hand, which is great. And the fact that it folds flat, so you can put it in your pocket. I mean, this is just disgusting. This is sick in space. You have a hammer? Get it. Get the hammer. Let's go. This is... Ooh, very strong. Surprisingly... Surprisingly... It's strong. Logitech is going to love this, by the way. Yeah, there you go. By the way, you know you have to sell or give me a mouse now, okay? No, you don't have a mouse now. Okay. No, I don't. Hey, thank you so much for this. Really cool. Thank you so much. Don't you want it? I just totally destroyed my mouse for no reason. And I still don't have a mouse replacement. Here's the really shocking thing. I discovered right after I smashed my mouse, which is a Bluetooth mouse, that the Arc Touch has a dongle. So it was pretty upsetting.