Entries tagged with surface - Channel 9

Ping 22: Microsoft & Linux BFF's! Xbox handheld coming, Bing Jingle, Win a Surface

Laura Foy — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:15:00 GMT

In the middle of the summer you might think Microsoft would take a break and kick-back but clearly that's not how we roll. In addition to Office 2010 and Windows 7- Microsoft made news in a few other ways...

Microsoft hired the Apple guy?
Linux is my homeboy
Xbox Handheld coming your way
Sue the spammers
Bing Jingle = BINGLE
Win your own Surface

Ping 18: Ballmer apologizes, Paul Allens latest move, Surface fun, Security Beta

Laura Foy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:34:00 GMT

The boys took over this week and it's clear we have a bro-mance in the making. If you've ever wondered what guys talk about when they're alone...now you know:

Paul Allen makes it big!
Ballmer makes a boo boo
Surface gets even cooler...
Real DaVinci footage
Security Beta

InfoStrat.VE: Integrating Virtual Earth 3D into WPF and Surface Applications for Mere Mortals

keydet — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:16:00 GMT

Virtual Earth 3D has many applications, but until recently has only been practical on the web with a JavaScript interface. WPF applications could not use the full potential of Virtual Earth 3D without requiring a WPF wizard and some XAML magic due to Win32 interop limitations.

Information Strategies (InfoStrat) has the solution. They created a WPF / Surface control, InfoStrat.VE, and are sharing with the community on CodePlex. This control provides a WPF interface for the Virtual Earth 3D control, complete with data binding for camera control and WPF-based pushpins. All Win32 restrictions (air space control, no rotation or visual brush) are eliminated. Microsoft Surface is also supported.

Watch the interview to learn the history behind the control, see it in action, learn how to get started, and even contribute back to the community.

The video is a little long, so we have provided a timeline below in case you want to skip to specific sections:

00:00 Introduction / Background

10:18 DEMO: Surface application using InfoStrat.VE

15:00 CodePlex project / code walkthrough

38:15 DEMO: Surface application using advanced capabilities in action

43:08 Wrapup / community call to action

Ping 14: Bing, VPlay, Zune HD, Celebrifeed, Mediaroom

Laura Foy — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:24:00 GMT

While Max is away our dear friend Paul stepped in and he definitely wasn't shy to voice his opinion. He's got his (very long) finger on the pulse of Microsoft...these were the beats:

And Interview with the Bing team
Bing goes live!
VPlay for Surface DJ's
Are you ready for Zune HD?
Paul schools Laura on Mediaroom
Celebrifeed for Hollywood Twits

...and a challenge for some badass giveaways! Watch and play...

Ping: Episode 7

Laura Foy — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:48:00 GMT

These Microsofties just won't stop talking- and it's about really great stuff this week. Here's a glimpse of some of the stories we captured:

April Fools @ Microsoft
....lots and lots of it
Silverlight & MySpace...BFF's
Don't hate on the Microsoft name
iOffice?

Oh, and yes I know it's "TV production 101" to not wear busy shirts (like with white stripes) on camera so I apologize in advance for my shirt that looks like you might be hallucinating. Sorry.

3rd place - MIX09 Show Off Contest - Stimulant Surface Applications 2009

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:10:00 GMT

Stimulant is an interaction design and development studio that specializes in new interaction paradigms on emerging hardware.

Microsoft Surface is an important part of our core offering. This is a short reel of our publicly-showable Microsoft Surface projects we created between 2008 and 2009.

Built by:
- Josh Santangelo, Jules Konig, Darren David, Lee Granas, Nathan Moody

Tools used:
- .NET 3.5, XNA, Visual Studio, Expression Design, Expression Blend, Expression Media Encoder, Microsoft Surface Emulator

See Honorable Mentions 1, 2, 3, 4.

Ping: Episode 5

Max — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:43:00 GMT

Coming at you LIIIIVE (ok not really) it’s this week’s Ping. This was a really exciting week in Microsoft-land with MIX, IE8, and Silverlight. We also talked about the “Surface 2” rumors and, of course, wrapped up with some trivia.

Here are some of the fancy links for you all so you don’t have to type:

IE8 performance video (scroll down to Case Study)
IE8 on Channel 10 discussion
History of the Internet (hilarious!)
Home Customizer Media Center Contest

PS: if you want to follow us on twitter check out Laura and/or Max.

Northrop Grumman: Innovating for the War Fighter with Microsoft Surface

keydet — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:29:00 GMT

Northrop Grumman partnered with the Microsoft Technology Center and the Microsoft US Public Sector Developer and Platform Evangelism team to build a Proof Of Concept (POC) application that would demonstrate how Microsoft Surface could enhance mission planning, rehearsal, and post mission knowledge collection for military command and control decision making. Northrop Grumman Corporation is a leading global security company whose 120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems, shipbuilding and technical services to government and commercial customers worldwide.

Watch the interview to see a full demo of the POC. The interview highlights Northrop Grumman’s learning experiences on the POC especially with regard to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), the Surface SDK, the designer/developer workflow enabled by WPF and the new thinking behind Natural User Interfaces with an emphasis on User experience.

Joe Fletcher – Touch and Gesture Computing

Robert Hess — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:14:00 GMT

Joe Fletcher works in the Surface team, and is focused on identifying design approaches which best utilize touch-based interfaces for both Surface as well as Windows 7. In this episode we will discuss with Joe some of the concepts that he will be expanding upon in his upcoming session at MIX09. If you have specific issues you’d like to see him cover in his session, please leave a comment here letting him know!

Here is the description for the session he will be doing at MIX09:

Touch and Gesture Computing, What You Haven’t Heard

by: Joe Fletcher

Learn about new patterns, behaviors, and design approaches for touch and gesture interfaces from a practitioners point of view. Learn early lessons from applied knowledge of touch applications, devices, and design methods.

Using Touch in Line-of-Business Apps

Ben Riga — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:14:00 GMT

I was mesmerized by this simple but cool Microsoft Surface demo at last fall’s Convergence conference in Copenhagen. Lachlan Cash was kind enough to let me post the video here as a great example of how touch can transform visualization and manipulation of complex line-of-business information.

The demo during Kirill Tatarinov’s keynote session shows top-down heat-map visualization of the bins in a warehouse. The color-coding gives an immediate view into the status of the warehouse with blue showing cold (i.e. bins with low pick rates) and red showing hot (i.e. bins with high pick rates). Multi-touch is fully supported on Surface allowing multiple warehouse staff to collaborate while manipulating the data to optimize the warehouse for fast picking.

It’s not clear to me that we’ll see many Surface devices in warehouses as that’s not the initial target market. On the other hand, as Kirill mentions at the end, this type of innovation gets much more interesting with the new Windows Touch technology in Windows 7. I can just imagine 60-inch multi-touch displays becoming the control centers of warehouses in the not so distant future. I hope that this sparks some ideas for how you might use touch in your line-of-business applications using either the Microsoft Surface or Windows 7.

Resources:

MSDN Radio - Alla kort på bordet med Surface

Johan Lindfors — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:05:00 GMT

Dag König, Johan Lindfors och Robert Folkesson fortsätter sin spännande resa genom Microsofts utvecklingsportfölj. Den här gången stannar de vid Microsoft Surface genom en intervju med Björn Eriksen från Connecta, Melodifestivalen, Prism och en hel del annat.

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TCSWeekly 005 - a UX Pattern Explorer and more Designer-ready content

Adam Kinney — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:34:00 GMT

This turned out to be a pretty design-centric episode. Quince the new UX Design Pattern Explorer launched, Illustrator to XAML plug-in is ready to be tested, Alex Knight a XAML Designer is featured and Stimulant shows off their Surface skills.

Stories covered in this episode include:


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Российские евангелисты изучают Surface в коридорах Редмонда

Михаил Черномордиков — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:07:00 GMT

Гайдар Магдануров, Роман Здебский и Михаил Черномордиков изучают цифровой стол Surface, который стоит в коридорах кампуса Microsoft в Редмонде

Surface beats with Vectorform

Adam Kinney — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:23:00 GMT

SurfaceDJ from Vectorform was one of my favorite applications shown at PDC. Not only does it involve Multi-touch, Surface and music; but it is an example of a new form of collaborative application. Joe Engalan and Markus Sheldon build up the music, keep it alive and then break it down in real-time while working together at the Surface table. I want one!

Check out Vectorform's Surface blog to see some of their other Surface applications. Yes, they are the ones behind NBC's Electoral application.

IdentityMine's multitude of Multi-touch apps

Adam Kinney — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:40:00 GMT

On a whirlwind tour of the IdentityMine booth provided by Kurt Brockett and Meg McAllister, we get to see their Surface Photo Sharing app, their Photo Slideshow app using NextWindow touch screens and their AirHockey running on Windows 7.

Multi-touch was one of the big deals for me at PDC2008, because the concept brings new design opportunities and challenges. Seeing the different applications come to life was very cool and I'm looking forward to seeing what comes next in this space.