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Microsoft's Sphere

DateTuesday, July 29, 2008 at 5:50AM

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Update: there are more details and video in the news today at seattlepi.com via Engadget. The project has a web page at Microsoft Research: Sphere Project (the image is from this page).

There have been rumors for quite a while that Microsoft has made a spherical version of their multitouch Surface. Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet reports more details today:



“The sphere itself is made by Global Imagination,” CEO Mike Foody told me via e-mail. “We’ve been collaborating with Microsoft R&D for them to add the multi-touch capability. And yes, with the Magic Planet you can ‘zoom in’ using Microsoft Virtual Earth (and Nasa World Wind). [...]




The Magic Planet, as described on Global Imagination’s Web site, is a spherical, digital-video globe.

Link: More details emerge on the Microsoft Sphere

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