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Earlier this week, the Innoventions Dream Home became latest attraction at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. The Dream Home showcases cutting-edge technologies that can make life better and easier and was created in close collaboration between Disneyland, Microsoft, HP, Life|ware and home-builder Taylor Morrison. The Dream Home demonstrates how technology can be integrated into our lives in a fun, interactive environment.
Read the press release here with video of some of the highlights. Here is the Innoventions Dream Home event site for more information.
The Innoventions Dream Home includes a variety of current Microsoft technologies, including:
Surface is an exciting innovative technology that introduces a new way to interact with content – using your hands! Surface features a table-top display with unique abilities that allow several people to interact simultaneously or independently.
Its a fascinating product leveraging WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) user interface technology that comes with Vista and is part of .Net 3.0.
Surface, transforms an ordinary tabletop into a translucent, interactive facade. The surface can recognize cell phones, digital cameras, and other physical objects. It responds to human touch. Kids can finger-paint digitally. Business travelers can dive into maps and surf the Web without a mouse or keyboard, by using simple touch gestures across the screen. In restaurant settings, you’ll be able to order meals and play digital board games. At home, there may be no more fussing with the half-dozen remote controls sitting on your coffee table. That’s because the table becomes the remote control.
In April, AT&T announced it would introduce Surface in it’s retail stores, enhancing the mobile shopping experience.
Yesterday, Harrah’s Entertainment announced it will be launching Microsoft Surface at Rio iBar, providing guests with new “entertainment” experiences. Harrah’s has created an innovative suite of custom applications to provide guests with hip new ways to create their very own ultimate entertainment experience in an ultra-lounge venue. And for the “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” crowd; The table at the Rio iBar includes a program called Flirt, which lets customers sitting at any such table in the lounge see and chat with each other, take and e-mail pictures and even trade cell phone numbers.
