source;MSN(CNBC)
Microsoft's smart mirror, called Magic
Mirror, and showcased at the InnovFest Unbound 2016, a digital
technology conference in Singapore, has a facial recognition feature and
can tell the weather, date, time and location.
You can be smart and good-looking. That's the
message from Microsoft's Magic Mirror - a so-called smart mirror that
can recognize and greet users, read their emotions and display the
weather, time and other information. All the while looking just like a
regular mirror.Imagine when you wake up in the
morning, you're able to use the mirror to style your hair, do your make
up, and while doing that, you can also view the weather
.
The Magic Mirror has a hidden facial-recognition camera that can detect
eight human emotions, including anger, happiness and surprise. Microsoft
plans to expand the mirror's features, allowing it to show app-fed news
as well as Facebook and Twitter feeds in a display panel. On the monitor of the mirror, you're able to play an
advertisement. And you have a camera that can snap a photo of the users
that are viewing the advertisement.The mirror's facial-recognition features could then provide real-time
information to advertisers on how viewers reacted to the advertisement.The mirror is still in demonstrations before its release.