A sneak peek of the Surface app we made for Wind Mobile. Shown here is just a fraction of its coolness. Expect more details in Jan.
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
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Darren talks about the Surface version of the Local Impact Map. Lots of plaid is worn.
Stimulant’s official video and writeup for the Kodak application. We’re doing another, sort-of-similar app for their booth at CES. Should be fun.
A bit about the vision system in Surface. The vision system is what makes Surface unique from other technologies which only handle basic touches, and is what makes things like the previously-posted Kodak application possible.
A video of folks using the Surface app that Stimulant made for the Kodak booth at Print 09.
Some images of the Surface app that Stimulant worked on for the Kodak booth at Print ‘09.
Microsoft Local Impact Map (for Surface)
A couple of months ago we finished the Microsoft Local Impact Map, a Silverlight app highlighting all of the progressive and wonderful things Microsoft does around the world. Today we launched a new look at the same data, presented on Microsoft Surface.
Microsoft Local Impact Map: Surface Edition from Stimulant on Vimeo.
Aside from being a cool multi-touch, multi-user, 360-degree application, this one is technically interesting because it shares so much with the Silverlight app. It uses the same data classes and hits the same web services as the RIA, but presents the data in a completely different way.
Whereas the web app is pretty much a single-user experience, we hope that the Surface version allows people to literally sit around the table and share an experience and a discussion about the stories and data in front of them.
It will be installed at Microsoft facilities around the world shortly. Look for it next time you’re on campus!
I’m making an attached event which lets controls know when a group of tags of the same value and orientation are over them, and what the shape created by the tags is. That’s a sheet of paper with tags printed on it that’s just thin enough to see through. I think it looks cool.
The “XRay” project I’ve been working on has been posted to the Stimulant site, and talked about here, here, and here. The implementation is pretty simple — two data-bound ScatterView instances, some funky bitmap manipulation, and a WCF service to send the images to the device over HTTP. This approach means that not only did I not have to figure out how to write iPhone apps (yet), but that it also works on Android (really well) and on Windows Mobile (sort of).
