Unfortunately for electronic table fetishists everywhere, you won’t be able to walk into a restaurant, a casino or a retail outlet and play with a MicrosoftSurface table until spring of next year. Why isn’t it surfacing until then? Partners. Partners who need Microsoft’s help to build custom apps to fit Harrah’s, Sheraton and T-Mobile needs for gambling, sleeping and phone choosing. Beyond the delay, Microsoft also has some interesting plans to expand from just the retail and hospitality industry to government, education and enterprise businesses to eventually, as Gates predicts, be on “every table,” “every whiteboard,” “every mirror” within 5 to 10 years. Source:gizmodo
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Shahram is a researcher at Microsoft specializing in * Novel user interfaces and input * Interactive displays/surfaces * Tabletop computing systems * Tangible computing * Multi-display environments * hardware and recognition techniques for interactive systems * Technologies for domains outside the office e.g. the home or public spaces * Mobile User Interfaces and infrastructures About His Current and Past Projects…. ThinSight: this project navigates a new technique for optical sensing through thin form-factor displays. It accepts the detection of fingers, objects near the display surface. Basically a regular LCD screen is turn into a sensing surface that can be used for multi-touch and tangible computing applications. Emphasis is both on the underlying hardware and software aspects , as well as the interaction techniques and application