Posts tagged with microsoft-surface
Dungeons & Dragons on Microsoft Surface multi-touch table
Posted on November 3, 2009 10:40 AM
The SurfaceScapes project is the brainchild of students from Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), where it will deliver a proof-of-concept for playing tabletop role-playing games on the Microsoft Surface Table. Dungeons & Dragons was the natural choice when it came to testing the prototype, making us salivate in anticipation should this be a success. Of course, this won't kill off ordinary tabletop gaming as we're sure the entry price would sit well only with a handful of folks, but it will be a top class draw in virtually any gaming expo or convention.
Microsoft Surface Service Pack 1
Posted on May 17, 2009 6:05 PM
The Microsoft Surface platform isn't exempt from its Windows counterpart by coming out with a Service Pack 1, where it was officially released last week on the opening day of Microsoft Tech Ed North America 2009. Service Pack 1 will see the tabletop computer upgraded with the latest refreshes that were touted at the said conference, addressing current owners and developers running Microsoft Surface. Here's what Eric Havir, Sr. manager, Digital Communications at Microsoft/Surface had to say about Microsoft Surface Service Pack 1 :-
“Here at Microsoft Surface we've been actively engaged with our Community of customers and nearly 180 Microsoft Surface Partners in 11 countries. And in response to the feedback we received, we developed Service Pack 1 to allow for faster and easier development of innovative, natural experiences on the Microsoft Surface platform. The SDK supports development on any .NET framework and is optimized for WPF and XNA.”
