Endquote is Josh Santangelo, an interface developer and former man-about-town in Seattle. Lately, he talks a lot about Silverlight, Surface, and Stimulant.

email: josh[a]endquote[.]com
work: stimulant.io


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Feb 25, 2009
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So, take Surface, but the top is an LCD which can flip from opaque to transparent at n fps. Then float some other materials on top of it, and a projector under it that refreshes at n*2 fps. Half the frames go to the lower LCD, half go to the others. Add an object tracking vision system and you can do some really cool things.

I totally stole that idea to make Xray, which works almost as well with stuff you commonly have around the office (assuming you have a Surface unit and three iPhones around the office). The Xray video has been pretty popular, with 52k views so far. Perhaps we’ll get to make something a little more real with it.