What I found most compelling about this Microsoft Labs vision of the, near?, future is the variety of display technology and form factors seen. You can see why Microsoft have invested so heavily in technologies like Surface, touch interface and "the cloud" that will share data across these devices.
The retail video below isn't new, it has a PC running XP Tablet, and shows some concepts I first saw at a Retail FOCUS conference in 2006. Linking virtual and physical shopping is a challenge for all retailers and it will take Retail BIM, literally, to the customer. To identify product shelf locations, have stock there when the customer arrives and coordinate that information with an e-commerce portal demands perfectly synchronised BIM, Logistic and Merchandise data in a dynamic environment. It's a specialist market and one Autodesk BIM tools have not yet really addressed...
There is more detail on these videos on the Office Labs Blog
