This was just to cool to not blog about! Nothing much to say except that you have to check it out yourself. I have two links for you, one to the official Surface site at Microsoft and the other to PopularMechanics. The last link shows much of the same as the official site, but in a more “documentary” style :) If anyone gets hands-on experience with this, I would really like to hear from you on how it was.

Last night after I finished my Scrum presentation at NNUG, John St. Clair (architect at Reaktor and board member of NNUG) came up to me and asked if I’ve heard about Office RoundTable? As truth is, I hadn’t and asked what it was?

He thought that since we at Contiki have distributed teams it might be interesting for us. He explained that it was a 360 cam for Microsoft Live Meeting and it had auto focus on the person talking. Next thing I know he’s showing me a demo of it, which you’ll find here. But I think this one is a better demo of the device, though not that fancy.

Since I saw this, only one thing has been going through my mind; we just got to get us one of these! It would just make our day so much simpler. And not only that, it’s not as expensive as I initially feared. Just below $3000. Only sad thing is that it’s not for sale yet. Someone told me it might be for sale in Q2 this year though.

Thanks John for an excellent tip!