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Veja uma demonstração do Surface no Rio Casino

Posted By: Galileu Vieira | Jun 13th @ 4:39 AM
A equipe do time Surface estava em Las Vegas para a inauguração do Surface no i-Bar do Rio Casino. Eles aproveitaram e gravaram umas demonstrações das funcionalidades dessa mesa Surface. Confira o vídeo do Surface do Rio Casino no blog do meu amigo Nic Fillingham.
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Hands on with the Rio iBar Microsoft Surface units

Posted By: Nic Fillingham | Jun 12th @ 5:18 PM
Kyle Warnick from the Microsoft Surface team was in Las Vegas yesterday for the launch of the Rio iBar Surface units.
Kyle and team had their video camera with them and filmed this great demo of the new Surface apps in action for Channel 10.
Apart from fun, multiplayer mini-games and informational applications Harrah's have created a unique Surface experience by incorporating video camera's in the ceiling of the bar that allow you to (amongst other things) experiment with social interaction and the ordering of adult beverages,.. what a mix!
More info: www.surface.com & the Surface team blog
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Microsoft Surface Firefly Game

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Mar 5th @ 9:53 AM
Firefly was developed as a simple, fun game which was used to test Surface's multi-touch feature. Using all your fingers, you corral the fireflies into your glass jar, but, at the same time, you can also squash a neighbor's fireflies. You just have to be careful not to squash your own! To see Firefly in action, you can watch a video of it here. The game was never intended to be anything more than a test program for Surface, but it looks pretty fun. Maybe this will be included when Surface becomes available to the consumer?
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MIX '08 começa pra valer hoje - assista ao Webcast às 14h30!

Posted By: Galileu Vieira | Mar 5th @ 1:45 AM
O MIX é o evento onde a Microsoft mostra as suas novas tecnologias para a Web e para designers. Ontem já saiu uma das primeiras notícias: Silverlight para celulares Nokia até final do ano. O Silverlight é um pequeno plug-in para os navegadores Web (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari) que permite a criação de Web sites ricos em interatividade e interface. Ele também permite vídeos de excelente qualidade.

Meu colega René de Paula está no MIX esse ano e está blogando bastante. Ele até criou uns gadgets com Popfly para centralizar as informações do Twitter, Blip.tv, Flickr entre outros. Confiram o vídeo do Surface que ele gravou clicando aqui. 

Para quem quiser ver a apresentação principal das 14h30 hoje, o keynote com Ray Ozzie e Scott Guthrie, siga ao vivo (em inglês) seguem os links:

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Microsoft Surface Piano

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Feb 25th @ 3:20 PM
When Steve Clayton happened upon a Surface computer in Redmond, he didn't just play with it, he filmed himself playing with it! And it introduced me to a Surface app I had not seen before - the "Grand Piano." This application simulates a piano keyboard while showing off the Surface's ability to handle multi-input. The app came from an existing app created by the Expression Blend folks as an example of WPF and was tweaked to work on Surface. (For the techie details on how that was done, check out the Surface Team's blog post here). To see the piano application in action, check out the video Steve posted here.
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New MS Surface Apps at CES 2008

Posted By: Nic Fillingham | Jan 10th @ 1:04 AM
Bill Gates showed a cool new demo of Microsoft Surface as part of his CES 2008 key note presentation (at the 27:00 mark). In it he customized a virtual snowboard with decals and a signature then saved it to his Windows Mobile device and Windows Live Spaces site.
We sat down with Mark Bolger from the Surface group for a more indepth look at Microsoft Surface following on from our exclusive "first look" back in May.

Mark took us through a quick recap of the fundamentals of the Microsoft Surface technology and ran through the full version of Bill's "Snowboard" demo plus the "virtual wine steward" scenario which was not shown during the keynote.
If you're interested in learning more about Surface and how you may interact with it in real life once it deploys (sometime this year) make sure you check out the video.
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Robbie Bach @ CES 2008

Posted By: Nic Fillingham | Jan 6th @ 8:18 PM
Each year Microsoft's connected entertainment vision gets better and better. By now, you've seen the broader picture - Media Centers in the living room, Extenders in the bedroom, Xbox's in the playroom, Windows Mobile on the hip, and Sync in the car. Making all this work, and work more seamlessly in the future, is no small task of course, and the person charged with making it all work is Robbie Bach.

Robbie invited us over this morning to talk about what we can expect from the Connected Entertainment experience in 2008 as well as what's coming in the future (yes, Surface computers in your house.) The first digital decade is just the start.
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Dell's multi-touch tablet

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Nov 15th, 2007 @ 3:10 PM
Multi-touch, which started at Bell Labs nearly 25 years ago, is the hot technology this year and without a doubt one of the technologies I get asked about most by family and friends. So obviously there are a lot of companies working on multi-touch products. A couple weeks ago, Charles Torre took us inside Microsoft Research to see some of the work being done with multi-touch laptops.

But I was still pleasantly surprised when Dell announced their new Latitude XT multi-touch tablet at Oracle's OpenWorld (video via JKKMobile), and with products coming "in a couple of months", it looks like they're going to be first to market with this technology, congratulations Dell. The question now is what apps will ship for multi-touch? Things are getting very interesting and we'll keep you informed as details come out.
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Vídeo: Laptop com tela multi-toque

Posted By: Galileu Vieira | Oct 26th, 2007 @ 12:17 PM
Meu colega Larry Larsen publicou um pequeno post redirecionando ao nosso canal irmão, o Channel 9 (um blog com informações técnicas sobre tecnologias Microsoft) onde há um excelente vídeo, filmado na Microsoft Research, mostrando uma tela de laptop com tecnologia multi-toque. O vídeo está em inglês mas vale a pena ver. Eles comentam como esse tipo de tecnologia está avançando e falam sobre as diferenças com o primeiro computador com tecnologia Surface. Confira o vídeo aqui.
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