Reading Nigel Parker’s blog, there is a link to a video of Bill Gates demonstrating Touch Wall. It’s an interesting adaptation of the original Surface concept from Microsoft, but this time everything is presented vertically (makes a lot of sense really). What I found interesting from the video was the use of Deep Zoom like technology to browse around a large ‘surface’ and then manipulate any objects available. I say ‘Deep Zoom like’ because I don’t think manipulating objects, like what’s demonstrated in the video, is officially supported by that technology or WPF … not yet anyway.
Catch the video here. It’s worth 5 minutes of your lunch break.
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