Touching the Surface

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In Denmark we've got three of these Surface tables, but only one is currently up and running.

A couple of weeks ago me and my fellow Microsoft Student Partners where given the opportunity to play with a Windows Surface table. Now by playing I don't just mean that we could look and feel, but we could also make our own software and run it on the Surface table... Now that was cool!! We divided ourselves in small groups and started developing some applications for the Surface table.

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As can be seen from the pictures one of the MSP's made an XNA game for the Surface table, which wad an asteroid game where multiple players had to touch the asteroid before they hide the spacestation in the center of the Surface table.. We had lots of fun with that...

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The cool thing about Windows Surface is that you are able to program it using WPF and/or XNA, which is unleashing a lot of power. As of writing I don't belive that there is a SurfaceSDK available for download just yet, but it is on the way :-) and therefore I am not going to show you any of the code we made for the Surface table just yet, but when the SDK is released, I will put up some example code..

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Posted by: AllanJP
Posted on: 3/31/2009 at 2:45 PM
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