{"id":182,"date":"2007-05-30T14:42:07","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T14:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/30\/microsoft-surface\/"},"modified":"2007-09-02T16:43:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-02T16:43:45","slug":"microsoft-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/30\/microsoft-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dynamicorange.com\/blog\/archives\/interaction-design\/microsoft_in_on.html\">Rob mentioned Microsoft Surface<\/a> to me at lunch time, I had seen it on several blogs but &nbsp; haven&#8217;t really had a chance to have a look at it. It&#8217;s very impressive technonology. as Rob points out its a combination of many different muli touch techniques that we&#8217;ve seen in other demonstrations over the last six or so months. As far as I&#8217;m aware this is the first commercial product to enter the market, and they&#8217;ve done a great marketing piece on it over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/surface\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/surface<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>However if you want to see it an action, I found this product demo on YouTube. I was very impressed with how the surface interacts with real world objects like camera&#8217;s, for example, placing a digital camera on the table will automatically grab the photos off it. <\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FlZxuqjJDgk\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FlZxuqjJDgk\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p>Below is another demonstration of Surface, this time over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.PopularMechanics.com\">PopularMechanics<\/a> <\/p>\n<p align=center><embed src='http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\/destination\/player\/player.swf' bgcolor='#FFFFFF' flashVars='allowFullScreen=true&#038;initVideoId=933742930&#038;servicesURL=http:\/\/www.brightcove.com&#038;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https:\/\/www.brightcove.com&#038;cdnURL=http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com&#038;autoStart=false' base='http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com' name='bcPlayer' width='486' height='412' allowFullScreen='true' allowScriptAccess='always' seamlesstabbing='false' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' swLiveConnect='true' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash'><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>There more I see this in action the more I want one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob mentioned Microsoft Surface to me at lunch time, I had seen it on several blogs but &nbsp; haven&#8217;t really had a chance to have a look at it. It&#8217;s very impressive technonology. as Rob points out its a combination &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/30\/microsoft-surface\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[57,59,58,386,60,61,385],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gesture-interface","tag-interaction-design","tag-interface-design","tag-microsoft","tag-multi-touch","tag-physical-world-hyperlinks","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}