Microsoft predicts holographic touchscreens in vision for future video

Microsoft has this week unveiled a video depicting its vision for the future of human life and work, including innovations such as holographic touchscreens and auto-translating spectacles.

Posted on the OfficeVideos YouTube channel, the US software giant's future-gazing film depicts a world in which various devices are seamlessly connected, enabling their users to perform a range of tasks with ease.

In the dialogue-free video, a woman called Ayla Kol arrives at Johannesburg airport on a business trip and is instantly able to translate the announcements via her glasses.

She then gets in a taxi and uses a mobile device to signify the location of her meeting tomorrow, and remotely check-in to her hotel, meaning the doorman knows all her requirements before she even arrives.

Meanwhile, a man in the subway approaches a poster advertising a benefit concert, and, by holding up his phone, is able to instantly donate money to the cause.

Ayla Kol's daughter is then depicted searching for a recipe on her tablet computer, before using the holographic screen to lift the instructions and spread them out on the interactive work surface.

Watch all of Microsoft's future visions in the full video below: