Microsoft Surface

Microsoft Surface

Microsoft has unveiled its Surface Computer Technology, a project that has been kept under wraps for five years. They have launched its first commercially available Surface Computer , that provides effortless interaction with digital content through natural hand gestures, touch and physical objects.

How does Surface Work?

Surface is essentially a Windows Vista PC tucked inside a shiny black table base, topped with a 30-inch touchscreen in a clear acrylic frame. Five Infra red cameras that can sense nearby objects, hand gestures and touch are mounted beneath the screen. Users can interact with the Surface by touching or dragging their fingertips, with their hands and gestures and by putting real world objects taged with speical bar-code labels on the surface. Unlike most touchscreens, Surface can respond to more than one touch at a time.

Surface key Features

• Users can interact with the digital content and information without the use of a mouse and keyboard. From digital finger painting to a virtual concierge, Surface brings natural interaction to the digital world in a new and exciting way.

• Unlike typical touch screen that responsds to a single touch at a time, Surface Computing recognizes many points of contact simultaneously. The horizontal form factor makes it easy for several people to gather around surface computers together, providing a collaborative, face-to-face computing experience.

• Surface Computer recognizes Object. Users can place physical objects on the surface to trigger different types of digital responses, including the transfer of digital content.

Surface Use

Microsoft is opening up an entirely new category of sharing information. The mutli-touch, mulit-user approach is something that will certainly open some new avenues for interaction with their data in the future. With a price tag between $5,000 and $10,000 per unit, Microsoft is saying that, by the end of this year, consumers will be able to interact with Surface in hotels, retail establishments, restaurants and public entertainment venues.

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