From a Microsoft press release: “AT&T will become the first company in the world to bring Microsoft Surface to life in a retail environment, giving customers the ability to explore their mobile worlds using touch and device recognition technology. Microsoft Surface is the first commercially available surface computer from Microsoft. Beginning April 17, customers can experience Microsoft Surface in select AT&T retail locations, including stores in New York City, Atlanta, San Antonio and San Francisco. Based on the success and learning from these initial pilot deployments, plans for further expansion across AT&T’s 2200 US retail stores will be determined.”
I dislike Microsoft and many of the pretty disgusting things they’ve pulled, but, it still doesn’t diminish the fact that Surface is one interesting thing. I have seen a few videos of it in action and it sure looks great. Using hands to interact with objects, move them around and so forth is just so natural for us humans. And imagine if you had one of these in your living room, you threw up a party and you had some multi-user game specifically designed for Surface!
yes, but what would happen if someone pulled up a porn site ?
hand control can be a bad thing sometimes !
Microsoft Research should not in any way be associated with typical Microsoft. Research is constantly responsible for some pretty brilliant, fascinating projects (this and Singularity are the most prominent examples). Essentially, they hire some of the best minds and say “invent something cool.”
Will they have an iPhone demo running on it? I bet MS & Co will love that.