The Power of Microsoft Surface

Multi-touch technology allows multiple inputs from multiple users. Microsoft Surface is one product that leverages multi-touch technology. For example, one can draw four lines with four fingers on a Microsoft Surface. You may activate the paint tool box on the screen, dip your fingers in different colors and draw on the Microsoft Surface. You can see the power of Microsoft Surface yourself, as the lines of different colors appear as you draw with your fingers. The power of Microsoft Surface allows many people to work simultaneously on the Microsoft Surface, by sitting around it.

Hospitality businesses like restaurants, hotels, retail businesses, and public entertainment venues will be bringing you the power of Microsoft Surface soon. Many applications are being built around the Microsoft Surface. The applications may need to be customized to a specific use before the third party developers start creating different applications.

Harrah's Entertainment, Starwood Hotels and Resorts, T-Mobile and IGT are a few companies that have signed up to bring the power of Microsoft Surface to their customers.

It appears that the restaurants will be an easier target as interesting applications can be built around the Microsoft Surface. The Wine glasses and Beer mugs can be identified by the Microsoft Surface, when placed on the surface. Each of these may be labeled with a special code (like barcode), which is read by the Microsoft Surface. If a beer mug is placed on the surface, the menu related to Beer appears on the surface. The user need to just select the item and the order automatically reaches the bartender. That is the power of Microsoft Surface.

You may go to a shop to pick up a wrist watch and liked several models. You do not know how to compare the two models, apart from the visual looks. Just place the two models on the Microsoft Surface. The power of Microsoft Surface brings out the comparison of the two models- feature by feature.

In a video released to display the power of Microsoft Surface, two people play Chess by placing a physical chess boards on the Microsoft Surface at each end. The lay out is synchronized using cameras. One may wonder why play chess with physical pieces, while one can play chess online through software. But this effort is to show some possibilities and the power of Microsoft Surface. The opportunities are unlimited. Once the Microsoft Surface is available at affordable prices, the experience of eating out or buying thing at retail stores may not be the same again.