SecondLight: Bringing the UI into the Real World
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SecondLight is a new surface-computing technology that can project images and detect gestures in mid-air above the display, in addition to supporting multitouch interactions on the surface.
The SecondLight technology adds another dimension to Surface. It allows users to slide “magic lenses” over the display to give you another surface that can be linked to the first. Microsoft researchers projected a picture of a car on the Surface display. When they added separate, moveable pieces of glass, a wire frame model was seen!
Normally, the Surface display serves as a projection screen. But SecondLight’s optical switch rapidly flips the display between translucent and clear. This tricks your eyes into seeing both images projected onto the “magic lenses”, which act as projection screens.
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2 Comments
SecondLight is a better Surface | TechBower
February 28th, 2009
at 10:10pm
[...] really amazing to watch a video of it in action (such as Chris Pirillo’s), and that’s really the best way to get a feel for how amazing it really looks, and how [...]
joelg88
March 2nd, 2009
at 5:45pm
Man is that cool. You have to love technology.