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Aside from some niche markets such as airport displays and kiosks, I think this is a bad bet on Microsoft's overall strategy. I don't see a demand for these sys
by delbel 12y ago
Aside from some niche markets such as airport displays and kiosks, I think this is a bad bet on Microsoft's overall strategy. I don't see a demand for these systems anytime soon. Disclaimer: today I was in a meeting where the projector had a touch screen and we only used it twice in the meeting. Although I was 1200 miles away from the meeting room and thought it was cool, it really was a gimmick when it came down to it. We never used it. I can almost see how this went down in a VP meeting at Microsoft "We'll make bigger brighter display and corner the market!" Unless someone can point out a real problem they are solving here, I'm betting in two years we will see Microsoft abandon the platform and all of the developers who invested their time into this flawed vision.
- lightblade 12y agoDon't be too sure about that. I would much rather buy a touch tv than ultra HDTV for my livingroom.
- feadog 12y agoSomething that's a standing desk/tilted drafting desk form factor combined with good palm/elbow/forearm recognition would immediately address the "gorilla arm" problem with such interfaces. Combine that with Reactable-style tool objects, and input from cameras and/or a Kinect, primarily in order to make the system "smarter" about how to interpret touch, and I could see some really revolutionary interfaces for applications that are amenable to a data-flow style model. (Applications where you have boxes connected by pipes/arrows to other boxes.)