**** UPDATE: A lot of the stuff you're seeing in the Microsoft Surface videos is not quite as slick as it seems--MS Surface uses simple fiducial marker pattern tracking & recognition to identify the objects placed upon it--the same as our "garage" surface computer!
The link below shows the marker patterns placed on the bottoms of the drink glasses, credit cards, and phones used in Microsoft's videos to make it appear that the table just knows what they are...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtrztnqCrm4
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This is a demonstration of the Tangible User Interface (TUI) used in the Apollo Beyond project.
From the Master's Thesis of:
Stephen Barker
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Song Speckels
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A lot of the stuff you're seeing in the Microsoft Surface videos is not quite as slick as it seems--MS Surface uses simple fiducial marker pattern tracking & recognition to identify the objects placed upon it--the same as our "garage" surface computer!
The link below shows the marker patterns placed on the bottoms of the drink glasses, credit cards, and phones used in Microsoft's videos to make it appear that the table just knows what they are...
youtube*com/watch?v=FtrztnqCrm4
DigitalFrontiers 4 years ago