Filipino Programmer | Philippines

Microsoft Corp unveils their latest technology that brings to life those clear big screens featured on the movie “The Minority Report”, the project was code named “Project Milan” and later called Microsoft Surface, the first in a new category of surface computing products from Microsoft. The product announced at D5 conference was a built-in multi-functional new kind of touchscreen tabletop computer. Basically the interface accepts multi-input commands just like the iPhone which was previously announced by Apple. And the amazing part of that is Surface can interact with wireless digital devices such as camera/cellphone. Surface uses cameras to sense objects, hand gestures and touch. This user input is then processed and the result is displayed on the surface using rear projection.

What are the key attributes of surface computing?
Surface computing has four key attributes:
• Direct interaction. Users can actually “grab” digital information with their hands and interact with content by touch and gesture, without the use of a mouse or keyboard.
• Multi-touch contact. Surface computing recognizes many points of contact simultaneously, not just from one finger, as with a typical touch screen, but up to dozens and dozens of items at once.
• Multi-user experience. The horizontal form factor makes it easy for several people to gather around surface computers together, providing a collaborative, face-to-face computing experience.
• Object recognition. Users can place physical objects on the surface to trigger different types of digital responses, including the transfer of digital content.

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