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Microsoft Surface: Chelsea Cunningham

Microsoft Surface is a computing platform introduced in 2007 that allows users to directly interact with digital content on surfaces using hand gestures and touch. It uses infrared cameras and rear projection to recognize multi-touch input and objects on its interactive screen. While initially used in commercial settings, Microsoft aims to expand Surface to consumers by 2010 by lowering prices and developing household versions that could be used on surfaces like desks or walls.

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Microsoft Surface: Chelsea Cunningham

Microsoft Surface is a computing platform introduced in 2007 that allows users to directly interact with digital content on surfaces using hand gestures and touch. It uses infrared cameras and rear projection to recognize multi-touch input and objects on its interactive screen. While initially used in commercial settings, Microsoft aims to expand Surface to consumers by 2010 by lowering prices and developing household versions that could be used on surfaces like desks or walls.

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Microsoft Surface

Chelsea Cunningham
What is Microsoft Surface?
 Project began in 2001
 Introduced in 2007
 A surface computing platform from
Microsoft.

“Microsoft Surface represents a


fundamental change in the way we
interact with digital content. With
Surface, we can actually grab data
with our hands, and move
information between objects with
natural gestures and touch.”

- Microsoft.com
What is surface computing?
A form of computing that offers “a
natural way of interacting with
information,” rather than the
“traditional user interface.”

 Direct Interaction

 Multi–Touch

 Multi–User

 Object Recognition
How does it work?
 The Surface is not a touch-sensitive screen device…
 uses multiple infrared cameras
 “recognizes objects based on shape or by using domino-style identification
(domino tags) on the bottom of the objects.”
 information is processed and displayed using “rear projection”.

(1) Screen: Diffuser -> ”multitouch"


screen.

(2) Infrared: The ”machine vision" is


aimed at the screen.

(3) CPU: Uses similar components as


current desktop computers

(4) Projector: Uses a DLP light engine


( rear-projection HDTVs).
How is the Surface used?
 Wireless! Transfer pictures from camera to
Surface and cell phone.
 Digital interactive painting
 At a phone store
 At a restaurant
 Play games and use the Internet.
 Watch television
 Jukebox! Browse music, make play lists.
Billboard for advertising
 Maps

Who’s using Surface today?

5 Verticals
Automotive
Financial Services
Healthcare
Leisure and
Entertainment
Retail
Microsoft Surface’s Future…
• Surface will continue to be sold to and used by restaurants, retail, leisure and
public entertainment venues.

• According to Pete Thompson, Microsoft’s general manager for surface


computing, the Surface could potentially be available to the “broader
consumer market” as soon as 2010. Microsoft goal is for consumers test the
Surface in commercial settings, and then want them in their own households.
Microsoft wants to expand to the consumer market by making a product
people can use in their home environment (using other surfaces like desks or
making a version that hangs on the wall).

• Computer scientists hope to incorporate this kind of technology in peoples’


daily lives… Future goals are to surround people with intelligent surfaces
(look up recipes on your kitchen counter or table, control TV with coffee table,
etc.)

• "I firmly believe that in the near future, we will have wallpaper displays in
every hallway, in every desk. Every surface will be a point of interaction with
a computer, and for that to happen, we really need interfaces like this." - Jeff
Han founder of Perceptive Pixel and NYU professor
Problems?
• Will it catch on? Microsoft's “whiz-bang technologies” aren’t always the
most successful products… For example the smart watch, the Portable Media
Center, the Zune music player and the Tablet PC, have not caught on like the
company had hoped.

•
$$ $$ $ $$ Surface machines cost between $5,000 and $10,000, but
Microsoft hopes that as prices fall, the machine will find it’s way into the
consumer’s household. For it to be able to catch on with “mainstream
consumers,” the price will definitely need to come down.
Is this
really
just a big
PC?

I don’t like Constantly


having to share reaching across
and wait my the table is
turn not fun

Reading
upside down
makes my
head hurt
Features of Surface
Microsoft Surface computing uses sensing and display technology
to infuse everyday surfaces with digital content and is comprised
of the following unique attributes:

Direct interaction Multi-touch Multi-user Object recognition

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