Microsoft Create Walls of Multi-Touch Magic

After the Microsoft Surface and use the car for BMW, then Microsoft will demonstrate a computer multi-touch interface and a miraculous new, called TouchWall at the Microsoft CEO Summit in Redmond. TouchWall more mereferensikan to the touchscreen with the ability of hardware setup itself, plus software that will run TouchWall, which was built in the standard version of Vista, called Plex. TouchWall and Plex almost the same as that used in Microsoft Surface, a table multi-touch computer that has been introduced in 2007 and become commercial goods in the shops AT & T.

In his demonstration, GM of Microsoft Office Labs, Chris Pratley, and Director of Envisioning, Ian Sands, said that the two products, Microsoft Surface and TouchWall is a different matter. Surface is a multi-touch and vision system that uses cameras to sense what is on the table, where, and what can be done at the table. For example, when the phone is placed on the table, and then interact with what is on the table with a variety of ways, such as interesting photos to the phone.

However, TouchWall mechanical system that is simple and cheap to be produced. Surface required for the production cost of $ 10,000, because the hardware interface must be changed to the multi-touch. Meanwhile, for TouchWall, according to Sands, only a few hundred dollars needed for production. TouchWall has three infrared laser that can scan the surface of downloading. A camera will record when the split laser line and provide information back to the Plex software. According to Pratley, and Sands, a prototype is made very simple. A projector used to show the prototype at the Plex interface screen CARDBOARD.

Sands also describes activities that can be done with TouchWall, such as zooming in and out, the media play, even using the drawing tools for drawing in the entire screen as whiteboard. The only limitation is the projector used, which means that the entire wall can actually become a multi-touch interface. Microsoft is too quick to say the government will not sell TouchWall. This is because, according to Pratley, computer experience in the future is not the monitor, keyboard, mouse and more to using a table, with user input directly on the screen and via voice commands, with inputan keyboard and mouse to enter data only for typing or editing .

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