Microsoft SURFACE

[GuruMeditation]

Or maybe I'm just still mad about the absence of flying cars. It's fucking two thousand and SEVEN, scientists!

O RLY? (first, and last time I'll ever say that)

http://www.moller.com/

Eph : I saw something like that in a supermarket used as advertising. Eye strain right now -_-

I wonder why MS limited themselves to a 2D plane with the cameras. You'd think that with 5 cameras they could go for a 3D interactive area.

[Jerome Scuggs]

The power grid will be embedded in the floor, table etc. Imply place the device on the table and a power connection is established.

They're also working on wireless power, an idea I had when I was fucking 5

where are my royalties

[ConcreteSchlyrd]

We have had 3D LCD's in our lab for the last 10 months (not our technology, but looking to integrate with our embedded devices). Awesome stuff but it has been slow to market. Guess it needs to display 3D porn for it to become mainstream.

I've been moonlighting with a company building 3-dimensional visualization software and hardware for medical professionals. The effect is cool, but similar things have been around for decades--my old Sega Master System had LCD shutter glasses too.

http://www.moller.com/

Great! Now all I need is a million dollars!

[Vykromond]

So isn't this Surface thing just another example of Microsoft chasing Apple's technology by about two years? I just feel this sort of deja vu, like I remember this exact thing being showcased at some Mac convention a couple years ago.

Oh and I use Windows pretty much 100% of the time so this isn't really me propagandizing.

[GuruMeditation]

So isn't this Surface thing just another example of Microsoft chasing Apple's technology by about two years? I just feel this sort of deja vu, like I remember this exact thing being showcased at some Mac convention a couple years ago.

Oh and I use Windows pretty much 100% of the time so this isn't really me propagandizing.

This?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zwGAKUForhM

Great! Now all I need is a million dollars!

Details.

[geekbot]

Yes, the MIT multi-touch presentation is the first working demo seen.

Multi-touch LCD available in a consumer device this month (iPhone), not just as a research presentation, or marketing mockup. The phone Jobs is using is a working prototype from months ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKuM8lVOCg8

EDIT: June 29, I guess....git your propaganda here: http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/

[Vykromond]

Yep, my brain conflated the iPhone and that MIT presentation it seems. Looks like my point stands though!

[GuruMeditation]

If they combine that with sandbox environments like this : http://ishi.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-180.html - that's it. We're doomed.

Multitouch Lemmings?
Multitouch RTS?
Multitouch god games?

I'm going to smite you, and you, and you, and you at the same time!

[ConcreteSchlyrd]

Multitouch god games?

Combined with the gesture interface of Black and White, you have the coolest game ever.

[GuruMeditation]

I was thinking Populous and Dungeon Keeper, but all 3 of those games have the same developer :P

[ConcreteSchlyrd]

Molyneux certainly ranks right up there.

[Vykromond]

Right up there with Derek Smart on the list of shit gamemakers OHHHHHHHHHHHH BURNNNNNNNNnnnnnnnnnn

[Xog]

whats the point in posting anymore

[Vykromond]

Yeah no one else played that game, that's why it had a sequel.

[IKM]

looks bad for posture

That's what she said.