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NewsRedmond Turns Microsoft Surface "Up to 11" with SecondLight

Posted 10/30/08 at 04:31:13 PM by Mark Edward Soper

Microsoft Research's SecondLight is the next step in Microsoft Surface's development

Microsoft Surface has already been transformed from its original tabletop multitouch interface to a spherical computer, and this week's PDC added even more excitement with the introduction of SecondLight, the next phase in Surface's development.

As the UK's PC Pro website puts it, SecondLight is like "Surface on steroids." A product of Microsoft's Cambridge, England research labs, SecondLight projects an image through the table, enabling a translucent surface placed on top of the Surface tabletop to display additional information, such as place names, an interior view of an object, and much more.

To learn more about how SecondLight works, join us after the jump.

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