Surface 2

While the South by Southwest 2009 conference (Austin, USA), traditionally devoted to music, film and interactivity, continues its master classes and press rooms, its long noses got to know some interesting details about the next Microsoft multi-touch table - Surface 2.

The source of insiders about the new product from Redmond are third-party application developers for Surface. For example, Joe Olsen from Phenomblue and Eric Klimczak from Clarity Consulting told a lot of the juicy details of Surface 2, codenamed “Second Light”. And although Microsoft did not confirm, but did not deny, these words - there is no reason to doubt their veracity.

So, first of all, according to the developers, Microsoft does not plan to put Surface 2 on public display for the next couple of years, because at the moment the table is still under development, debugging and testing. In general, the concept of "Second Light" almost completely repeats the principle of the original Surface, with some interesting exceptions.

As you can guess from the name, a second projector has been introduced into the new multi-touch table, which allows controlling not one, but already two interactive information planes. In theory, this means that as layers in Photoshop, images in Surface can be superimposed on each other - in practice it looks like a massive interactive space. Imagine a landscape map of your city, on top of which a sewer system is superimposed and, importantly, you can manage these layers separately. Handsomely? Sure, but that's not all.
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The integration of gestures is also another interesting novelty. While owners of Apple laptops can already try out multi-touch gestures on their touchpads, a similar opportunity will appear only in the next Surface. However, unlike touchpads, infrared sensors will be installed in the table - this means that it will be possible to control the table with gestures, theoretically, without even putting your hands on the very surface of the table - in the air.

Installing one or two High-Definition webcams also seems to me quite necessary functionality, especially in light of the fact that Microsoft will certainly want to sell its tables as a universal tool, which is perfectly suitable not only for presentations of anything, but also for video conferencing.

Undoubtedly, all this will increase the price of Microsoft Surface 2 Second Light compared to the first model, whose price tag floats at $ 10,000 (although the price largely depends on the scale of production), but we all remember Redmond’s fantasy on the 2019 theme - there is nothing that looks cheap :) If someone suddenly forgot how Surface works, you can watch the video here.

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