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

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