Microsoft Surface Technology Uses DLP to Recognize Media Players, Digital Photos
Microsoft’s new tabletop Surface technology, six years in the making, moves optical technology forward by combining physical and virtual worlds.
The engineers wanted to create a table that could interact with objects placed on top of it. They led a small team starting in October of 2001 that sought to build a new way of interacting with a computer through touch and vision. About six years later, Microsoft has finally unveiled its Surface Computer. It enables people to directly interact with the interface on the table top, dragging and dropping virtual objects such as digital photos with their fingers. It also recognizes physical objects placed on top of it, including Microsoft’s Zune portable media players. For engineers, this is the ultimate play toy, allowing for experimentation with a wide array of applications that combine the physical and virtual worlds.
