Sheraton Hotels Begin to “Surface” Their New Interactive Technology
Have you heard about the Microsoft Surface that was introduced to the public a few months back?
This is now getting to be a reality as Sheraton hotels agreed to install this Microsoft Surface interactive table on some of their hotels. I’ve seen how it worked in a video that a friend had emailed me months back. Now some customers are finally getting to have a feel of this new technology. Some hotel tables are now converted into these special tables where guests need to use two fingers to do the walking. Not all Sheraton hotels contain these “surfaces” because Microsoft says that the installation is out for the test run.
At first it seemed to me that the table is a lot similar to the touch screen computers that I see around. The remarkable difference of this technology is that it is designed to operate in 3D. It has a bunch of infrared cameras
and a projector that is installed along with this table so that it can respond to three-dimensional hand-gestures. This arrangement also enables the “surface” to respond to different types of objects. The Microsoft Surface can even “make waves” – literally.
For Bill Gates, this is indeed a start of his great vision to see the “surface” everywhere. I don’t hear any competition to this technology and I think he would be dominating this field of technology once more – just like what he had done with the software.
What do you think about Microsoft Surface?
