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Secondlight, Microsoft's New Surface Prototype

Posted by samzenpus on from the look-deep-into-the-table dept.

Barence writes "Microsoft has literally added another dimension to its touchscreen table technology Surface. The new table projects an image through the table itself, so that any translucent material (such as tracing paper or perspex) held above the Surface screen displays a different image to what you see on the table's display. This means you can have a satellite image of a town on the table, and have the street names projected on to a piece of paper that the user holds above the map. Or you could have a photo of a car, with the tracing paper displaying images of its innards."

2 of 183 comments (clear)

  1. Re:How long by Fourier404 · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...since when did companies routinely invest in research and then give the results away for free, unless there was some other way to make money off it?

  2. HOW FRIGGING COOL!!! by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 3, Informative

    Now, I can display one image on the large-format table, while I struggle to manually hold a 36" x 48" piece of frigging tracing paper a few inches over it, thereby rendering the tracing-paper image impractical, and the other image invisible!

    Damn! Why didn't I think of that?? I would be RICH!!!

    Rich, I tell you!