Unique spherical display offers multi-touch user interface for manipulating the surface with several fingers for playing games, viewing photos, watching videos, browse maps 360 degree virtual globe and so on.
Legendry game Pong has been available to PC, TV and even gaming consoles. All three give different experience. But how about playing Pong on spherical globe like surface? Microsoft researchers have worked on spherical display prototype that includes the former as one of the many possibilities.
Todd Bishop has posted a video about Sphere demonstration by Hrjove Benko at Microsoft Research on his Microsoft Blog on Seattle Post-Intelligencer website. In the video Benko demonstrates Sphere display's multi-touch user interface and its manipulation.
At the DemoFest 2008, Microsoft Booth Map mentioned allotted space for multi-touch spherical display. Succeeding the Surface aka coffee table computer, Microsoft Researchers will finally unveil multi-touch Sphere, rumored since March on various websites like Engaget and Mary-Jo Foley's blog All about Micrsoft.
The prototype has spherical computer display working on internal projection and vision system. Microsoft researchers have worked on advanced algorithms that made possible to translate images meant for flat appear properly on the spherical display. Also an infrared system for sensing interaction gestures with hands or objects was added.
Unique spherical display offers multi-touch user interface for manipulating the surface with several fingers for playing games, viewing photos, watching videos, browse maps 360 degree virtual globe and so on.
Benko said, "I believe what we are seeing is the emergence of various kinds of interactive surfaces. This is one surface that might be serving a particular purpose, but it should probably live in an ecosystem of other surfaces. So what's really interesting to us is what kinds of interactive surfaces we can make, how well we can make them, and how people interact with them -- how they are used."
Research continues on developing alternative and innovating human-machine interaction methods and intuitive interfaces.
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