Comments on: Microsoft Surface’s vision system can see and interact with objects on the tabletop http://www.kurzweilai.net/microsoft-surface-vision-system-can-interacting-with-objects Accelerating Intelligence Thu, 13 Jul 2017 15:57:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: MarkHarrisonUK http://www.kurzweilai.net/microsoft-surface-vision-system-can-interacting-with-objects/comment-page-1#comment-2521 MarkHarrisonUK Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:52:27 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=108058#comment-2521 I like Microsoft Surface, but I don't understand why the price is still on the high side of $12,000. Yes, I know that the 2011 "Surface 2.0" release has a faster processor, and a new version of the software, but in the three years since 1.0 launched, the price of 42" screens has tumbled, and it's still on 1024x768, which is now somewhat lower than the kind of HD video (1080p) that rolls out in consumer formats for a few hundred $. (About £350 here in the UK, presumably $500-600ish in the US?) At $2000, it could dominate the market - at $12,500, it's bizarrely expensive, and there are open-source interfaces that do similar (if less well refined) things.... I like Microsoft Surface, but I don’t understand why the price is still on the high side of $12,000.

Yes, I know that the 2011 “Surface 2.0″ release has a faster processor, and a new version of the software, but in the three years since 1.0 launched, the price of 42″ screens has tumbled, and it’s still on 1024×768, which is now somewhat lower than the kind of HD video (1080p) that rolls out in consumer formats for a few hundred $. (About £350 here in the UK, presumably $500-600ish in the US?)

At $2000, it could dominate the market – at $12,500, it’s bizarrely expensive, and there are open-source interfaces that do similar (if less well refined) things….

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