multi touch & microsoft surface
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Presentation I gave on Microsoft Open Day, 6th Dec 2011, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesTRANSCRIPT
Microsoft Surface 2.0Introduction
Zeddy Iskandar
Agenda1.Hardware
• How Multi-Touch Works
• Building your own Multi-Touch Table
• Inside Surface 1.0
• Introducing Surface 2.0
2.Software (Surface 2.0 SDK)
• Input Simulator & Visualizer
• ScatterView, TagVisualizer
The Hardwareunderstanding how it all works…
Jeff Han
http://bit.ly/jeff-hanFirst shown on TED conference, Feb 2006
FTIR
“See” fingerprints in visible light
Frustrated Total Internal Reflection
Capturing FTIR
Use Camera to “see” and send data to computer
Fire InfraReds into Acrylic
IR LEDs on all sides of the acrylic
http://bit.ly/ftir-table-photos
Completed Table
Table has to be high due to projector “long-throw”
http://bit.ly/ftir-table-photos
What Camera Sees
What Computer Sees
Zeddy’s Multi-Touch
Demo-ed during Windows 7 Launch Indonesia (2009)
http://bit.ly/z-multitouch
Rear DI
Fire InfraReds from below
Rear Diffused Illumination
Surface 1.0 is DI
1.Acrylic Screen with Diffuser layer on top
2.InfraRed LED 850nm wave from 4 points
3.Small-form-factor computer
4.Projector 1024x768
Introducing Surface 2.0
No hidden projector & computer underneath the table
LED-TV Thin
PixelSense
~2,000,000 pixels + ~2,000,000 sensors (1920 x 1080)
Full HD 16:9 1920 x 1080p
The Softwaremagic that makes the hardware
usable…
Surface 2.0 SDK
http://msdn.com/windows/surfaceIt’s Free
Win7 Touch Compatible
Besides Simulator, you can test Surface apps on devices such as HP TouchSmart
Demo - ScatterView
Demo - TagVisualizer
Domino Tags
Thank You