Microsoft → Taking Windows for a drive literally

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Those of you who attended or watched BUILD last September may recall a project that Dan, Clint and I have been working on with the guys at West Coast Customs. Against the odds, and perhaps against our better judgment in terms of sleeping hours, we set out to see what was possible when you combine some of the world's most innovative technology, the latest in cloud connectivity and raw American auto muscle. What would it look like if you could take Windows, Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Xbox, Kinect, Bing - you name it - and put it all together into one iconic car? Well, we're excited to announce that the experiment is complete and "Project Detroit" will be unveiled to the world this Sunday, March 25 at 9:00 p.m. PT/ET on Discovery's Velocity Network.

To say that this has been a labor of love is an understatement. To do this right we knew that we needed to work with the best and the only option was West Coast Customs. Along with Ryan Friedlinghaus and his crew, we started with a 2012 Mustang, retrofitted it with Dynacorn's 1967 Mustang fastback replica body. From there, we piled on Microsoft's latest technologies, many of which have never been used in automotive applications. We created heads-up displays with augmented reality in the windshield. We put a Kinect on the front and a Kinect in the rear for skeletal tracking and live streaming video feeds. We added swipe-able touchscreen dashboard displays and then we tied it all together with Windows Azure in the cloud and Windows Phone applications to control it all. And that's just the beginning.

To really understand how it all came together, you have to watch the episode, but to give you just a taste, here are some of the things you can expect to see:

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even has 2 kinects.

Blake

Yeah I remember when I was in Fremont, CA in the early 90s where some club had a car wired up using Unix doing the same thing with video, wireless to a server so the club members could watch over a local network. They had a control panel like a pilot's cabin.

But that was 1990. And Unix. Good to see someone able to duplicate it with Windows.

They chose a fitting color for the neon since its windows