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Them into products. bill gates was talking about tablet computers a decade ago but it took apple with the ipad to make them take off. windows smartphones have been around for ages but now google with its android phones is taking over the market. >> they're really good at the hard science and really good at physical devices like xbox kinect. they're totally missing the pleasing and delightful technology, the user interface people want to use. apple have that. microsoft don't. >> reporter: and there are more uses for the kinect camera. suddenly i'm getting a 3d experience through this virtual wi...

>> you can steer the planes -- >> reporter: a system that allows a virtual handshake with someone on the other side of the world or software that allows an ordinary camera to take 3d pictures. many of these ideas from microsoft's research labs will never take off, but here's one that has. the xbox kinect system turns a player's body into a games controller and transforms anyone into an avatar. it does whatever i do and i can talk to another avatar, which can be a real person thousands of miles away or right across the room. so, why am i seeing your avatar? wouldn't it be better if i was seeing...