It appears that Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division has been spending its time and budget on building the Surface computer - a multi-touch, table-top device that uses a several cameras so you can paint things and order room service in hotels in Las Vegas.
It's been doing this rather than spending its time and money building the Xbox 720!
The company rolled out the PC to the world yesterday. It's not aimed at the average consumer and no price has been set, but it will be appearing in various Vegas hotels as a touch-screen machine. OK, so right now there are no games for it - we'd suggest Galaxians like the one that used to be in the Prince of Wales pub in Cavesham, Reading (Ingerland) or a Phoenix table like the one that used to be in The Griffin.
Microsoft has a lot to say about it, here are some examples:
Direct interaction. Users can actually grab digital information with their hands and interact with content by touch and gesture, without the use of a mouse or keyboard.
Multi-touch contact. Surface computing recognizes many points of contact simultaneously, not just from one finger, as with a typical touch screen, but up to dozens and dozens of items at once.
Multi-user experience. The horizontal form factor makes it easy for several people to gather around surface computers together, providing a collaborative, face-to-face computing experience.
Object recognition. Users can place physical objects on the surface to trigger different types of digital responses, including the transfer of digital content.
However, as well all know, no device is any good without games. We've made our suggestions. What games would you like to see in a multi-touch, multi-user, object-recognising, table-top system? Tell us in the Forum.
It's been doing this rather than spending its time and money building the Xbox 720!
The company rolled out the PC to the world yesterday. It's not aimed at the average consumer and no price has been set, but it will be appearing in various Vegas hotels as a touch-screen machine. OK, so right now there are no games for it - we'd suggest Galaxians like the one that used to be in the Prince of Wales pub in Cavesham, Reading (Ingerland) or a Phoenix table like the one that used to be in The Griffin.
Microsoft has a lot to say about it, here are some examples:
Direct interaction. Users can actually grab digital information with their hands and interact with content by touch and gesture, without the use of a mouse or keyboard.
Multi-touch contact. Surface computing recognizes many points of contact simultaneously, not just from one finger, as with a typical touch screen, but up to dozens and dozens of items at once.
Multi-user experience. The horizontal form factor makes it easy for several people to gather around surface computers together, providing a collaborative, face-to-face computing experience.
Object recognition. Users can place physical objects on the surface to trigger different types of digital responses, including the transfer of digital content.
However, as well all know, no device is any good without games. We've made our suggestions. What games would you like to see in a multi-touch, multi-user, object-recognising, table-top system? Tell us in the Forum.
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alexh2o 31 May 2007 12:16
1/8
How about for drinking games. You all put your pint on it, do some random drunken pawing at the table, then it flashes a big drink and arrow at one of your pints. (The proceeds to send an order to the bar for another pint, so you dont even need to move!)
DoctorDee 31 May 2007 18:24
2/8
It'll be awesome for patience.
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hollywooda 1 Jun 2007 10:56
3/8
how about a game of virtual soggie biscuit!?.....no?....ok.
soanso 2 Jun 2007 12:53
4/8
Minesweeper!
TimSpong 2 Jun 2007 21:27
5/8
hollywooda wrote:
how about a game of virtual soggie biscuit!?.....no?....ok.
Did you?
wayne12 5 Jun 2007 13:22
6/8
I was interested in doing such an device years and years ago. The games I had planned, which I might as well say before some numskull patents it and I can't no longer create them myself, were pub games. In pubs, cafes, clubs etc, the tables themselves could be an display screen where you can play against the other people in the crowd, or by yourself, and do other computer things, like word processing and Internet. Cool, isn't it, especially when you can use simple action games against the girls, which means "cutsie" games like flipping turtles, the rest I am not saying (and the penny drops, oh that would be great, why didn't X patent that). That's what I hate about the patent system, even if you were the first, years or decades before the eventual patents, you can't get any benefit, because you could not afford to patent in the first place. You then have to compete and pay royalties to all the businesses that illegitimately got patents for latter rediscoveries because they had the money to patent and force you (and I am saying, illegitimate, because people are kept out of IP ownership because of bias towards the rich, then violated even if by patents on things you had previously independently discovered yourself. Now what is wrong with the governments, patents are in place to promote commercial enterprise, don't the production, recording and recognition of new ideas produce enterprise and much tax, so why should we pay "ANYTHING AT ALL" to take out an legitimate patent..
Your new robot recognition system sucks, as usual. These systems usually think something is wrong if you take an while to enter them, for instance if you do something lengthy like write an post, hopefully not here. Can't I just login, where is the login.
Your new robot recognition system sucks, as usual. These systems usually think something is wrong if you take an while to enter them, for instance if you do something lengthy like write an post, hopefully not here. Can't I just login, where is the login.
hi man 25 Jun 2007 20:58
7/8
A game that i think u should make is a game that lets u fish. And U r able to pick a real truck and pull a boat behind. Then whenever u get to the lake u could put the boat in the water . then u park ur truck get out get in the boat and fish. And the lakes should b real. EX>>>Lake of The Ozarks
Thanks for ur time
Thanks for ur time
Arcade game- XBOX 360 15 Apr 2012 18:10
8/8
Some of you may disagree with me here,
but for arcade, I want Sonic Adventure 2.
Enhance graphics.
Leave levels the hell alone.
2P is 2 player XBOX live.
If they do this, my life is complete.
but for arcade, I want Sonic Adventure 2.
Enhance graphics.
Leave levels the hell alone.
2P is 2 player XBOX live.
If they do this, my life is complete.