A video of Microsoft TouchLight. The technology, developed by researcher Andy Wilson, uses computer vision and sensing to enable new applications including gesture-based inputs that replace the mouse and keyboard.

Microsoft 除了 Microsoft Surface 之外又一 Interface Demo… Microsoft Touchlight!
似乎想做一些改革！

18min. 絕對值得一看！

1. What is the Microsoft Surface?
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 cameras that can sense nearby objects are mounted beneath the screen. Users can interact with the machine by touching or dragging their fingertips and objects such as paintbrushes across the screen, or by setting real-world items tagged with special bar-code labels on top of it.

2. How much does it cost and when is it available?
Prices for the Microsoft Surface will reportedly be $5,000 to $10,000 per unit. However Microsoft said it expects prices to drop enough to make consumer versions feasible in 3 to 5 years.

3. What is the Microsoft surface software?
Microsoft Surface runs Milan software. While it runs on a Vista PC, there is a whole other layer of software that handles the advanced touch input.
At its core, Milan is powered by a fairly standard high-end Vista PC with an off-the-shelf graphics card, 3GHz Pentium 4 processor and 2GB of memory. To make the touch screen work, Microsoft crams a lot of other stuff into its tabletop unit. Underneath the roughly textured scratch-proof and spill-proof surface covering the top of the unit, five infrared cameras sense fingers or other objects touching the surface, while a DLP projector turned on its side generates the screen image people see.

4. When did this begin?
MS started surface in 2001. Microsoft Surface is a forthcoming product from Microsoft which is developed as a software and hardware combination technology that allows a user, or multiple users, to manipulate digital content by the use of natural motions, hand gestures, or physical objects. It was announced on May 30, 2007 and is expected to be released by commercial partners in November 2007. Initial customers will be in the hospitality businesses, such as restaurants, hotels, retail, and public entertainment venues. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Surface

5. The official Microsoft Surface site.
It features a Flash animation.
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

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*MUST SEE FULL VIDEO!

Such sweet tech comes at a price, naturally, with the units running $10,000 a pop. But, Microsoft expects prices to plummet over the next three to five years to the point they’ll be in your homes. In the meantime you’ll be able to play with them at T-Mobile stores, Harrah’s and Sheraton hotels.

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PlayAnywhere is a prototype interactive display surface that transforms any ordinary surface, such as a table or whiteboard, into an interactive input/output surface. We use computer vision technology to sense when the user touches the surface and to reason about other objects placed on the surface, such as game pieces. The PlayAnywhere configuration and unique form factor opens up many new possibilities: consider a combined sensor, projector, computation pod that a child can set up on the floor or imaginary playfield!

That is Just COOL!!! it seem better than Jefferson’s one.

Because the screen size is no limit! And it interactive with a Real object!
Really Nice!

More: Technical Overview from Microsoft Research (PDF)