It was rumored for quite a while now that Microsoft is working on a spherical multi-touch display prototype. Today, at Microsoft’s Faculty Summit in Redmond, people will get the first chance to interact with it. The sphere is built on commercially available hardware by Global Imagination of Los Gatos, California, but Microsoft managed to put the camera for tracking user interactions behind the SAME lens as the projection source. This of course is a clever way to avoid tracking from outside or a bulky globe-stand.

As of now, Microsoft does not seem to aim for a commercial version of the spherical multi-touch display, they simply want to proof the concept and also see how people accept the unconventional screen and its interaction possibilities.

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via Engadget