Hitachi Does Microsoft Surface Without the Table 110
An anonymous reader writes "According to CNET.co.uk, who randomly stumbled into a booth at CES, Toshiba has created a Microsoft Surface-type system without the unwieldy table. 'The StarBoard system is really two technologies in one. Firstly, it features Hitachi's short-throw LCD projector. This is important, because the projector sits mere inches from the interactive surface. This means you get a huge — 50-inch, in fact — bright screen, which doesn't get blocked out by your head as you lean over the table. The image it projects is incredibly high-quality too, and there was no noticeable distortion.' The video attached to the article shows the system in action." It should be noted that the implication that leaning over the table blocks a projection from above is spurious; the Surface projects an image from below. The 'overhead' setup at CES was a camera designed to show onlookers what was taking place on the table.
Re:Wii guy will do this! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:shadows (Score:3, Informative)
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From the article linked in the summary with my comments in parentheses:
Re:ICARS predicted this! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:ICARS predicted this! (Score:2, Informative)
I may be wrong - I'm only a regular trek viewer - but I don't remember any trek, even the most recent (Enterprise) or the farthest in the future (future federation timeships in Voyager and Enterprise) that clearly had multitouch interfaces. Touchscreen, yes, but not multitouch as in the typical picture-rotate-and-resize demos we get these days.
If those kinds of interfaces were pictured and imagined since back then, I think they'd have been implemented years back as well. Palo Alto et al were quite the innovators. No, the first occurence of that type of interface I remember seeing is in Minority Report.
Re:Wii guy will do this! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:ICARS predicted this! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Microsoft already did this (Score:3, Informative)
http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/ [upf.edu]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReacTable [wikipedia.org]