Microsoft Surface 2.0

January 9 2011

Microsoft and Samsung have join their forces to bring a refined version of Surface, the mainstream multitouch table (or what it was supposed to be). It is now less bulky, more like a large screen with legs. Actually, it is just that. Samsung is producing a new glass + screen + sensor panel that can sense +50 touches and see what is on the surface.

It should be commercially available worldwide later this year, including Sweden for $7,600. Quite a good reduced price point compared to the version 1.0.

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

January 10 2011
jordi.parra permalink

The hardware looks awesome, the marketing videos I saw from CES, awful… it looks like the people using the table are taken out of a stock image database or are on drugs or something… Anyways, the table itself looks great! ;)

January 10 2011

The new package is very decent. The new sensing capabilities directly via the panel sounds just amazing. I definitely need to check that up while I’m in Redmond! I wonder what it can and can’t see (what is the threshold above the surface).

Like any MT setup, once you have a nice hardware, the rest is in the software. I’m pretty sure MS has a great offering for this. It’s still a bit expensive for everyone to get their own table, but give it 2-3 years and a lot of people will MT all they want! I’M not sure it’s a good thing or a bad thing. We’ll have vertical screens everywhere + on all horizontal surfaces now. Crap !!! I’m sure somebody will me a wood pattern screensaver that changes over the years :-)

January 14 2011

We’ve been working on some Surface projects for a bit and have a partnership going with Microsoft Surface at Redmond. @Camille – while at Redmond tell me what you think about Sonicspree! Its now on the Surface2 and our own Lena has worked on it!

On a tech note – It’s really refreshing to see Surface2 because it suddenly brings the formerly ‘big-ass’ table where you flick pictures around to a new zone of possibilities. I just hope it creates enough fingers to allow great applications that are meaningful at domestic and urban scales. Cant wait to get our’s soon!

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