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Surface @ Microsoft
Hammered out on | December 27, 2007
Amazing applications. Can’t wait for it to be implemented everywhere. This has way more commercial viability than the solo user focus à la Jeff Han; his was cool, but I didn’t really see myself getting super excited to use it for myself. Blame my cultivated reliance on the mouse and its resultant laziness. In this day and age, it’s all about connectivity.
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December 27th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Nice pointer Gwen. Jeff Han has a nice demo on his company’s web site where you can see multi-user input on a grand scale.
http://www.perceptivepixel.com/
Best wishes
John
December 27th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
[…] is also Anand Agarawala’s demo of the BumpTop interface also on Ted Talks. And today, Gwen, pointed me towards Microsoft’s Surface project. This looks quite exciting. I now wonder what does […]
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:58 am
Hey John, thanks for the link to pp.com. :)
January 16th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
I particularly like the ‘Surface’ recognising digital devices when they are placed on it.
The applications and possibilities are quite exciting, although I haven’t had any success in finding one. Anyone know if they are actually released into the wild?
nick
January 26th, 2008 at 1:23 am
Not yet! And yeapz, can’t wait. But there are a few other independent researchers who have come up with similar technology too.
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