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With the new application developed by TravelTainment for Microsoft Surface, customers of travel agencies will soon choose their vacation like Tom Cruise in “Minority Report”. Earth at your fingertips! TravelTainment, a subsidiary of Amadeus specialized in research and distribution of entertainment products, creates an application dedicated to selling travels on the interactive Microsoft...
übergizmo (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Surfacescapes Demo Walkthrough from Surfacescapes on Vimeo . 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...
Bink (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
With Windows 7 out the door we already know Microsoft immediately starts work on the servicing of Windows 7. Engineers are now hard at work at creating hot fixes for application compatibility and ironing out any bug reports they receive. The same process occurs for every version of Windows once it has been classed released to manufacturing (RTM). Notorious for leaking Windows 7 builds during the beta...
The Gadget Blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Dungeons & Dragons on a multi-touch surface, with support for other RPGs promised? Definitely neat stuff, and it also inspires “now why didn’t I think of that'” moments. A brief 3-minute demo of Surface Scapes follows! Now if only the creators, students at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), can come out with a polished final product. I’m pretty...
Coated (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
If you’re into role-playing games (video or otherwise), then you’ve likely had your own fond memories of your Dungeons And Dragons days. Dungeons And Dragons basically laid the foundation for most other RPG’s that we all know and love today. If you’re a die-hard D&D fan, here’s a bit of good news — it may [...]
Technology Review (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
This clip shows a muscle-computer interface coupled to Microsoft’s Surface touch table.
JESS3 (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
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Walyou (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
You must have had a great time playing Dungeons & Dragons, which is also regarded as the pioneering title of modern role playing games and also the role playing game industry... This is a post from Walyou , who bring you the best New Gadgets gadgets , Cool Gadgets and Hi Tech News. Dungeons and Dragons on Microsoft Surface
Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Serious roleplaying tool A team of students at Carnegie Mellon University has developed a Dungeons & Dragons application for Microsoft Surface . It's a little like a printed out map, but completely interactive and able to recognise items placed on top. It can then calculate line-of-sight, roll dice, and perform other functions for the RPG though notably it doesn't play the game for you - this...
Internal Monologue (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Obviously needs a lot of work and tweaking, but the potential is there (HT: Jak Koke on Facebook ): Surfacescapes Demo Walkthrough from Surfacescapes on Vimeo . | Thank your for reading the Internal Monologue feed.
Brainicane (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Carnegie Mellon students give tabletop gaming a futuristic makeover with Microsoft’s multi-touch technology Dungeon masters with deep, dark pockets no longer need imagine how the venerable tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons might play on a futuristic multi-touch platform. Six students at Carnegie Mellon University recently released a video showing off their D&D concept for Microsoft’s...
The Raw Feed (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Surfacescapes Demo Walkthrough from Surfacescapes on Vimeo .
PcBlue.com (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
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DV Hardware (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Here's a video of Dungeons & Dragons on the Microsoft Surface: I don't want to put any pressure on Michael and the team over at Carnegie Mellon University, but you guys should be getting an A for your class project this semester. Their Dungeons & Dragons experience called “Surfacescapes” on Microsoft Surface is amazing. This is the future of how computers will aid in board games....
DVICE (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Say hello to Michael. He's one of the developers on the Surfacesapes project over at Carnegie Mellon University, and he's about to walk you through just about the best use for Microsoft's Surface multitouch table in the video above....
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