October 1st, 2008
Student Technology Day: Microsoft Surface demos
I’ll write more about Microsoft Surface tomorrow, including a client-side computer/operating system part to the Surface table; where you have an ordinary computer to control and develop on it. Not only that, I’ll bring you information on the SDK, the Surface desktop simulator, as well as some pictures of how simple coding the Surface table in C# is.
For the time being, here are a few videos of what Surface does, can do and “feels like” to use. Be warned, the image quality is crap and the sound is even worse. I was using a digital camera and the guy presenting has a very strong accent, so it’s difficult to understand. If you want to mute, feel free - I could barely understand what the poor guy was saying and I was sat near the front.
YouTube may not be available for a time, as it’s going through routine maintenance from 1st October 2008, 6pm PDT. If the videos below don’t work, just wait a few hours and see how it goes.
Microsoft Surface and your images
As with any computer, Surface gives you the means and the ability to show off your pictures, holiday snaps and night’s out on its table. With the multi-touch features, you can manipulate them and expand, shrink, rotate and send to other devices in the vacinity.
Microsoft Surface, your music and your playlists
demonstrates how it Again, as with pictures, you can play music through your Surface and create playlists of certain genres of music. This video demonstrates how it does it and how easy it can be, by dragging and dropping music with your fingers.
Microsoft Surface and the DJ application
Because Surface is a flat-top hardware device, the application seen in this demo shows the ability to remix, alter and DJ music from a variety of different sources, as well as customising songs in many different ways.
Microsoft Surface and what it sees
The technology behind Surface can bemuse some, but in this short video, you get to see what Surface sees and how it reacts to when something is placed on it’s sensors.
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