SURFACE COMPUTING(2006)

MICROSOFT TAKES THE PERSONAL COMPUTER OFF TABLES- TO BECOME THE TABLE ITSELF

Microsoft has established the new branch computer with surface is known as surface computing. These computer interact with the users through ordinary object instead of using keyboard, monitors. 

In 2006 Microsoft announced a new way in which a human can interact with a computer. The mouse and the key board are thrown way and replace with the table top containing an embedded rear projection touch screen. Behind the screen, inside the table, are five cameras with overlapping fields of view. These can look through the screen and programmed to recognize or red items that are placed on the screen. These cameras can also recognize physical object, track hand gestures and the movements of the pens and brushes, and the read credit cards and “loyalty” cards.

The software supports a multitude of touch points so many people can use the computer at once. A single user can also multitask. For example, if the digital camera is paced on the computer table, the computer immediately recognize that is a camera, download the stored images, and shown them on the table top screen. Enlarging the image is done simply by touching two opposite corners of the images and moving the fingers apart. Dragging song into and out of the music player is done in similar operations. He aim is to replicate everyday intuitive manipulative interactions.

At the presence time the Microsoft surface is expensive and aimed at holes, public entertainment venues, stores, and restaurant, but soon people could be browsing through music and book lists and downloading specific items, playing video poker, and ordering beer and food. Computer game technology could be revolutionized by these devices, and they could also be used with a real brush and a virtual palette to paint computer pictures in real time.