“Minority Report meets the kitchen table.” Source
It's a tabletop device with an integrated 30-inch screen and five cameras to enable multitouch access to music, photos, and the web. $5,000-$10,000 per unit.
Video demos and promos here:
The most interesting demo I've seen is the Wine Guide one here:
What's interesting to me is that it's the one demo that bridges the physical world with information via the Surface in a significant way. Place a bottle of wine on the table and information about the wine pops out. More info from the company that builds these things for Microsoft here.
IdentityMine Wine Guide Solution - Tesco Wine Fair from IdentityMine on Vimeo.
Like Jeff Han's beautiful touch screen, the barriers to entry here seem monumental. There's a new coding environment, an expensive physical device, and brand new UIs to be learned by users. This is why all of the clients thus far are big companies using the thing as a gimmicky attraction. Overall, the apps that I've seen (thus far) seem like bulky solutions to fairly standard kiosking needs.
Nothing so comeplling as their really innovative visioning of UI in 2019.
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