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Gates demonstrates touch UIs everywhere |
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Written by Jared Maynard
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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
"Little thin, tablet-like computers" and giant, sensitive walls with interchangeable touch- and pen-based "natural interfaces" are still on the way, said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, speaking at a CEO Forum Wednesday.
Microsoft's prototype Touch Wall includes special software plus "some scanning cameras down here at the bottom, so whenever I go up to it and say just touch it, the software will notice that, theoretically," as described by Microsoft's ex-CEO and soon-to-be-retired chairman to an assembly of CEOs at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
"So, in fact, this piece of software has all sorts of information behind it. And typically when we think about information now it's very linear. A PowerPoint presentation is slide-by-slide, and if something happens during the presentation, you want to skip around, that's hard to do," Gates illustrated.
"Here we've got things laid out in this nice two-dimensional form. So, I can zoom in on anything, I can move around. I've got different types of information that I'm using here. And it's all just easy to navigate to, because at any time I can look at different things," he elaborated." ~betanews.com
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