Post Archives for the "Surface" Tag

Extending the Surface experience in the BMW app

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Although quite a few people have linked to this video already, I wanted to point out something interesting.  Not that you wouldn’t catch it if you watched the movie. But with the comments of “familiar resizing, option selecting interaction”, you may not take the 2 minutes to check it out. Firs…

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posted on Dec 1st, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

Vectorform wins PhizzPop New York with Study Right

On the heels of my fascination with SurfaceDJ, Vectorform impresses again by winning the PhizzPop with Study Right, an innovative education application concept. The application visualizes what the classroom of the near future may look like when students have Multi-touch laptops and the teacher ha…

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posted on Nov 14th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

Continuum on Channel9

The Continuum on Channel 9 is now open for business.  Its a central hub for the different online projects coming from myself and my team, including The Continuum Show, Project Rosetta and Continuum News. What is the Client Continuum? The Client Continuum is way to view all of the Micros…

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posted on Nov 12th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

Multi-touch enlightenment with IdentityMine and Vectorform

Something about companies with compound names... Being a UI guy, one of the biggest impressions PDC2008 left on me was Multi-touch.  This is the first time I've seen it done in so many forms.  There were Surface tables everywhere, in the Lounges, Hand-on Labs, Exhibitor booths, in the hal…

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posted on Nov 7th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

Day 0 at PDC2008 - on inspiration and creativity

Here I am in my Moroccan hotel room at the Hotel Figueroa ruminating over the first day at the Conference Center for PDC2008 thinking, who works on a Saturday?  Many people do, of course, and some people work really hard like those setting up the Conference Center for the PDC so that the attend…

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posted on Oct 25th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

The Continuum Show - Essential Editions

Episode 1 of the new show is an 18 minute interview with Phil Haack discussing ASP.NET MVC.  This can be a lot of fun to watch, especially if you are a fan of ASP.NET MVC or Phil Haack.  But what if you don't already know about the topics at hand?  Would you continue to watch the …

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posted on Aug 7th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

Enter The Continuum Show

The Continuum Show has begun!  In this new show on Channel 9, we'll be exploring the world of the Microsoft Client Continuum.  The Continuum refers to the array of UI technologies available form Microsoft including WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, IE8,Windows 7, Surface and more. We'll be …

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posted on Aug 5th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |

Extreme Panoramic Project on Surface and Silverlight

Thanks to Scoble for posting the great xRez Studio - extreme pano project video today.  The project itself is interesting and the deliver is the frosting on the cake. 70 photographers hiking through Yosemite Park, toting robotic cameras, and positioned by GPS coordinates.  They then synch…

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posted on Jul 9th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments |