Microsoft Surface - The Future is now - Minority Report

[Crash]

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/




WHOA:

[Angrist]

Didn't we see this technology already in some presentations, just not by Microsoft? Nice to see it up and running though.

[KillerGremlin]

My two comments upon seeing the site were "whoa" and then "wonder how much it will cost?"

I always have imagined a future where pictures frames will be replaced by LCDs and you would have touchscreens everywhere to do stuff from your house. This technology is cool, but if it's too expensive it's not going to be practical for the everyday home user.


Respect for Microsoft trying to push this technology. I don't think Microsoft had any hand in inventing it, but someone had to try to get it on the mainstream market.

[Jason1]

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

Respect for Microsoft trying to push this technology. I don't think Microsoft had any hand in inventing it, but someone had to try to get it on the mainstream market.

*cough*Nintendo*Cough*

Sure, maybe it is a slight stretch, but I thought of the DS almost immediatley...

[Angrist]

I wouldn't really mention the DS here. Touch screens have been around for yeeeeears. Nintendo was just the first to really use it for games.

This technologie is awesome because it senses multiple touches, instead of just 1. Nintendo had nóthing to do with that. Though they might have inspired to use touch screens for entertainment.

[bobcat]

aaaah i see fingermarked dirty panels everywhere!!

[KillerGremlin]

while this certainly does relate to touch screens, it seems to be much much more...this seems more like a push to get touchscreens on every table at some point in the future...imagine having these at restaurants, or in schools, or on the walls in your house in place of pictures frames

the videos that show the people dragging pictures onto their phones/pdas is really cool, if they could get that to run smoothly that would be pretty nifty


edit: along with nintendo, you could even try to compare this to the iphone...but microsoft went a completely different route and they implemented the technology to hopefully have a wide mass appeal in the business and one day home world...whether you like microsoft or not, you have to give them props for this...there's a reason they don't even consider companies like Apple competition

[MrCoffee]

IM gonna go ahead and say wow this is pretty cool stuff but to be honest one of those alone probably costs a fortune and then getting phones and cameras and all that assuming it uses bluetooth is expensive, i dont own any bluetooth product except for the wii...I saddens me that I have to wait for this technology and when its brand new in the market at a decent price im going to be in university and have no money the idea of it being in restraunts and such is pretty nifty though...

[thatmariolover]

The idea has been toyed around with for a long time. It's cool to see that it will have more application now.

Reminds me of the interactive floor demo Nintendo had a couple E3's ago.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...46983584477029

[Angrist]

Wow that Nintendo floor is awesome, I had never seen that before.

Edit: Apperantly it's a Reactrix and here's a real dog playing virtual soccer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRi0m329iL4

[Crash]

This is Sean Beans desk in THE ISLAND.

Also, this multitouch screen thing is the next development for Nintendo DS2.

[The Duggler]

Multi-point touch screens have been out there for a while now like the one from Multi-Touch Interaction: http://youtube.com/watch?v=LByAFrcOwJk