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] Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. The table touch screens have been customized by Microsoft [MSFT
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] to let you order drinks, watch videos, play games. But here’s the interesting part. Cameras have been installed at the tables along with special software called “Flirt” that lets you flirt with people at other tables.
Flirt even reportedly suggests pick up lines, like: "You're so HOT ... got sunscreen?" Or, "Apart from being sexy, what do you do for a living?" Ok, this proves the software was written by code crunchers more comfortable communicating in C++, Visual Basic or LISP than in the language of LOVE.
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Yet despite all the ways the company could sell this new venture as "so hot it needs sunscreen," the press release instead describes it in the most technical, un-Vegas like terms: “The 360-degree user interface and massive multitouch capabilities of Microsoft Surface provide Harrah’s guests with an unprecedented social experience that infuses the best of technology with the best of Vegas nightlife.” Try reading that after a couple of appletinis. The Chief Information Officer at Harrah’s adds that this “is another example of our next-generation interactive customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities…”
What happens in next-generation interactive customer relationships, stays in next-generation interactive customer relationships.
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