Reddit post revisits Microsoft's faked 2009 Project Milo demo
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The r/Singularity post recalls Microsoft's Project Milo, a Kinect-era virtual character demo that was never released and was exposed as mostly faked. The poster argues the conversational, drawing-aware interaction it staged is now mundane.
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