MICROSOFT SURFACE
May 31, 2007
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Taking on the role of Nike recently, Microsoft has started delivering some of the most exciting Flash sites on the web. They're all very different and very creative and makes great use of the capabilites of Flash. If you're going to use Flash, you should go all the way like they're doing with this site. I also think they're taking the cheesy color scheme of Vista in a good direction with Surface.
Reminds me a lot to the "Desktop 2.0" - which i thought was a nice idea but not at all better than the old desktop we are used to work with. I would like to see more fine works on that screens, looks very crude - not to say magna-doodle-ish - from what the examples show. Maybe they will get Wacom into it, but for sure i agree there is a long way to go. And this can be the Minority Report future if you make it a big screen not a table.
If you consider the new Microsoft online world - the "nike world" :) - i would expect a little bit more. For example: One big full-screen demo of it - without the touch feature but with random real world items (mobile phone, camera....) to put on the interface and to interact with what is below and above the surface.
#2
Jan Weiss
on May 31, 2007
Imagine this plus perfected Voice Recog... wowow - one day!
#3
Jamie Calabro
on May 31, 2007
I want one!!! But as been said, it's going to take a while before it gets that good as shown on the videos. Sites colors actually look nice which is surprising to me because i hate purple. Nice Flash video sizing with the hands too.
#4
Matt Webb
on May 31, 2007
Actually i dont think they are that far away.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghq_5wl1EXA
#5
Petter Silden
on June 1, 2007
Ok, I admit that I loathe Microsoft and that this is not an unbiased assessment. Still, don't people think that they should think of some more interesting applications for this other than photo sharing, ordering drinks, and gambling?
#6
Patrick Marckesano
on June 3, 2007
I don't need this- Wacom Cintique would be more than enough instead of this for me :D
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Michael Farnhaven
on June 6, 2007
This one pretty much sums up the product better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY
#8
Håvard Gjelseth
on June 28, 2007
The website is the nicest piece of multimedia on the web that I've seen for a long time. Great use of Flash 9 with the whole transparency and video capabilities.
I hope the big media companies start pumping this stuff out. I'd love to see more Discovery Channel stuff on-line in this format.
Great to see what you can do when the usual SEO, download and budget constraints do not apply.
#9
Paul Minty
on June 29, 2007
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Wouldn't mind having one of those, BUT i think they still got a way to go before everything you see in the videos will work like it does there.