Guests And The Public To Experience Hands-On Interaction With Digital Content Through Product’s Unique Capabilities Renowned Artist, Charles Pachter to Demonstrate Surface’s Interactive Painting Feature with Creation of Original Artwork TORONTO, Sept. 14 /CNW/ – The Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel will host live demonstrations of Microsoft Surface, a revolutionary new surface computing product that was recently unveiled to major fanfare. For one day only, Saturday, September 15, from 11AM to 4PM, guests and the public can experience Microsoft Surface – a 30-inch display in a table-like form factor that recognizes natural gestures, touch and physical objects, enabling hands-on, interaction with digital content such as photos, music and maps. Microsoft Surface will roll out in Sheraton Hotels within the U.S. and Canada starting late spring 2008,
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After i posted about Rosie Multitouch Coffee Table, i then learnt about an other similar technology which is called as Tangent – A MultiTouch Surface, which was being developed since several years Tangent is built on the multi-touch research platform and used as a digital medium for research,testing and developing innovative and new multitouch interaction techniques. Tangent offers a direct interface to manipulate virtual objects by making it possible to touch and interact with these objects. Tangent asks for fundamentally different interaction principles than the ones known from traditional interfaces, similar to microsoft surface. In the project phase Tangent was developed and built and a range (set) of interaction principles were designed and implemented. Hardware: It uses a tabletop multi-touch surface consisting of a rear