@Zappykins

MS will not buy Oculus right now its still not proven too much risk. Anybody who aquires rift will wait for the consumer launch and the market reactions,

Also the big infusion of cash is this: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/oculus-rift-raises-16-million-preparation-consumer-launch-6C10361416

This has nothing to do with Microsoft. Also that rumor I wonder were you got it.

thanks for the info....

damn what is happening lately in the VG industry??? between Dean and Ryan dieng out of nowhere you have to wonder what is going on..... any conspiracy theorist have something to say on that ???anyway RIP to those guys

No.

Microsoft began working on Kinect in 2006.  By 2007 they were working on it in earnest, meaning they had greenlighted the project for further development.  In fact, they had started with PrimeSense from the beginning.  3DV used a totally difference way to measure depth.  Kinect 2 uses the technology they aquired from 3DV, Kinect 1 uses PrimeSense.  Prior to that, however Microsoft Research had been working on depth sensing technology.  The tabletop device that previously had the Surface name, incorporated this technology.

It is.

The idea is that Forteleza offered the AR which was incorporated with Illumiroom, all aided by Kinect.

I hope it's not cancelled, but if it was it likely was because it didn't work well enough.  Which would be a bummer.

There have been lots of patents covering the Illumiroom technology, or at least projections.  I suppose there are potentially patents covering Forteleza as well, though up until just now I never really thought of them in the context, but essentilly projecting within a membrane (i.e. piece of glass) and having the object appear as normal.  So, you project up from the bottom (or top) and what you're projecting appears in the sheet of glass -- not on it.  They're interesting patents, but I never quite got the purpose of them.  Fortleza may explain them.

Microsoft would buy them if Oculus Rift was going in a direction Microsoft wanted to go.

Oculus Rift and Sony are headed in the same direction, a display on your head.  Oculus Rift and Sony can do augmented reality, but primarily they are 3D displays.  Microsoft and Google aren't trying to be 3D displays, they just want to augement what you see already.  Google with information.  Microsoft with visual details.

well yeah but if you take stand alone R&D from MS they are pretty much working on anything using software LOL

what I meant is they could very well buy a company to fast track something they are already working on in R&D