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How Superman Might Read the NY Times

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t3knomanser
11/05/09

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That is not a microsoft surface table. That's an optical screen, not a touch screen. See the weird symbols in those prisms? Those are sigils that a camera can track. The camera watches where those are, sends it to the computer, which then tells the projector behind the surface how to display the appropriate data.

I can't see the video, so maybe there's also some touch interactions, but there's also some cameras involved in making that work. #infractor
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Justin Paulson
11/05/09

@t3knomanser: No touching, you are absolutely correct. And what is more pleasing to the eye than reading the newspaper from projected light? #infractor
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onishin
11/05/09

Detection in the MS Surface is also done by camera vision, altough they mainly detect IR wavelenghts
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t3knomanser
11/05/09

@onishin: Did not realize that. Still, this is using the sigils that are designed for standard cameras and I've seen plans online for constructing such a device (and I've played with the software it uses, which is pretty solid). #infractor
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dc-united
11/05/09

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Or you could just unfold a paper and read a story that interests you.

(And I don't have to listen to that spacey, new-age music while I read.)

This seems just a little like overkill, no? #infractor
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tazm0n
11/05/09

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Don't cross the beams.. don't cross the beams...Oh great... he crossed the beams, we're DOOMED... #infractor
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