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We've seen a number of examples of audio performances getting a boost from surface computing. There's the ReacTable , which is probably the most well known from Bjork's performances. There's also the reacTagon and many others too numerous to name. On
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Microsoft's own Andy Wilson and Stevie Bathiche , whose pioneering work went on to become Microsoft Surface , were out at the Interactive Displays conference in San Jose last week. On Thursday they gave the morning's keynote. They talked about, along
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We spend a lot of time thinking about how the unique optical capabilities of Microsoft Surface can be used to create magical experiences with everyday objects. A couple folks from the Applied Sciences team and the Surface SDK team got together a while
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Microsoft and Sheraton Hotels and Resorts have partnered to bring Microsoft Surface to the hotel lobby. Sheraton went live today with our music, photos and concierge applications customized with Sheraton specific content. This adds Boston, Chicago and Seattle to the list of cities where you can get up close with Microsoft Surface. Surface is already found in California, D.C. Georgia, Nevada, New York and Texas. For all Surface locations and our video highlighting Sheraton, visit Surface.com.
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Hello from Vegas! The Surface and Harrah's teams have been burning the midnight oil for the past few days getting everything set for our next public deployment. Today, Harrah’s will become our second partner to deploy Surface. They will have six Surface
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This evening AT&T and Microsoft announced a collaborative alliance to transform the way that consumers shop for mobile devices. AT&T will become the first company in the world to deploy Microsoft Surface! In fact, on April 17th if you're in NYC,
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I was lucky to be part of the team that went to the Venetian in Las Vegas to demo Surface at MIX 08 . Demoing Surface is fun, interesting, and exhausting. There were always attendees at the booth. Between sessions it would get pretty crowded. Also, this
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Surface and the team jumped across the pond earlier this week for some demo time at The CeBIT (I don't think it is actually called 'The CeBIT' but I find it funny that some people call it that...so I'm sticking with it) in Hannover, Germany. The CeBIT
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Our friends over at Sarcastic Gamer posted some new Surface goodness this morning. It's an early "proof of concept" game called Firefly that was developed by the Carbonated Games folks downstairs. While we've done other games during the course of the
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So we’re in the home stretch at CES. Today is the last day!!! As draining as this show is, as crazy as the planning has been, as stressful as it was to watch BillG demo Surface (fingers crossed so tight that it performed well-IT DID!) in his last keynote…it
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Tuesday was another great day for the Surface team n the Microsoft booth at CES. Because of the reworked the flow of the booth overnight to better accomodate the crowds it felt less packed and we seemed to have more room to breath. Nonetheless it was
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Surface had its CES coming out party last night, as Bill Gates showed off one of our new demo applications (a retail product customization scenario) in his final keynote to the industry. History-making stuff and I'm glad Surface could be a part of it.
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CES is right around the corner and the Surface team is getting ready to show off some new demo experiences. Over the past few weeks (and nights, and weekends, and mornings...ugh) we've been dogfooding these demos and making sure everything is tip-top.
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Let's dive into some design. Obviously, there's way too much to cover so I'll start small and specific and we'll gradually cover more ground over time. So, I'll start with general navigation and a key navigational element we call "Access Points". In creating
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As you might have read by now, C|Net reported that the first Surface units will be in the wild a little later than we originally planned. It’s a slight shift in timing for us, but we think that some of the stuff we’ve been working on is worth a little
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