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Microsoft Surface 2 Preview

johannes — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:08:36 +0000

I am Stunned

SurfaceWare – Special Glasses to Recognize if Glass is Empty via Multi-touch TUI Tracking

johannes — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:08:24 +0000

Fancy: Special drinking glasses, which allow to recognize the amount of fluid in the glasses.

Microsoft Surface TUIO Overlay SurfaceToTuio

johannes — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:12:58 +0000

In terms of the NUI research project Squidy at the Konstanz University the TUIO overlay SurfaceToTuio has been developed for Microsoft Surface. Download the SurfaceToTuio component from the sourceforge project site (or via direct download).

SurfaceToTuio is available as source code only (there is no executable). However, you can just upload the SurfaceToTuio folder to your Surface, doubleclick the Visual Studio project and compile it in the Surface’s Visual Studio right away.

Finally, a decent software interface for a decent hardware.

Update: The project of the Konstanz University has a bug, which has been resolved by Julian. Check out the stuff in his repository.

Microsoft Surface Vision System

johannes — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:59:10 +0000

Very interesting: Surface tracks shapes with its vision system. There are five cameras in the Surface. The system has a very high resolution (dice can be tracked). Surface uses high-power leds with a mirror system.

via blogs.msdn.com

Pictures of the actual LED and the light scattering mechanism that Surface uses can be found here.

It seems like Surface uses Osram SFH 4740 high power LEDs. Available in Germany here.

Most of this information has been found in that thread in the nuigroup.

Thanks, Stu.