Microsoft Surface Project Update

Take a look at our progress on our Microsoft Surface project.  I am working with Ohio State on a pilot project for the Microsoft Surface, which will be located in the new student union.  The surface is a new table top computing technology that incorporates some pretty cool concepts such as multi-touch and multi-user interaction.  The unit is durable enough that we currently have it in a food court where students have been eating off it.

I am on a team of developers writing the application.  In the video you can see a trivia game that we worked with some students to write.  My role is Project Manager/Creative Director/Technical Architect.  The game was my concept although the idea is heavily inspired by the BW3’s styled trivia game.  I also helped with some of the technical architecture but the students did most of the programming work.  We showed them how we want the system to be built, what technologies we wanted them to use, some other technical guidance and they did a great job taking it from there.  Our next step is to clean up some of the user interface and bring in a graphic designer to make it look really good.

The other cool thing about this video is it was taken with our new SLR camera. We bought a Canon 7D. The goal is to be able to take some more of the images displayed on the sites we develop and even shoot some footage if necessary.  The camera shoots in 30fps at 1080p.  This should help cut costs instead of outsourcing to photographers and production companies.