Those who have been fortunate to see and experience it have quoted as a technology miracle and one of Microsoft’s most user friendly innovations. Microsoft Surface is said to be quite similar to Windows Media Center. It runs basically on standard Windows Vista, which after all runs on an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB RAM, and most importantly you need a moderately-powerful graphics card. The most impressive thing you will first note in Microsoft Surface as a user, just like in the water application, is it innovative and simple presentation. The use of Multitouch in Microsoft Surface leads you to experience features like as in water application, where you can move your hand on the screen around on to make waves. I think that
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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