Consumers got a look at Microsoft’s newest creation, designed in the company’s Wilsonville office.
BY JACOB PALMER | OB DIGITAL NEWS EDITOR
Consumers got a look at Microsoft’s newest creation, designed in the company’s Wilsonville office.
The computing giant gave a preview of its newest Windows operating system last week in Redmond, Wash.
Part of that presentation included the unveiling of Surface Hub, a system that marries touchscreen technology with large-format (55″ and up) TVs.
OregonLive.com reported on the tech innovation, conceived in Wilsonville..
The underlying technology comes from a company called Perceptive Pixel, which Microsoft acquired in 2012. Perceptive Pixel’s big, interactive touch-screens appeared on TV news – especially at election time, when anchors would use the devices to illustrate voting maps and other breaking news.
Though based in New York, Perceptive Pixel’s engineering office was in Wilsonville. It remains there, drawing on talent salvaged from Oregon’s largely defunct electronic display cluster.
In Central Oregon, Scot Brees of High Desert Makers held a demonstration of his company’s 3D printers at the Redmond Library.
Brees said his group is actively working to set up a Central Oregon 3-D printing hub, a network of hobbyist 3-D printer owners who can fabricate parts for their neighbors. In cooperation with the Deschutes Public Library, the High Desert Makers have arranged to have design software put on to several computers in the library system. Using the software, local residents will be able to design whatever it is they may desire, then forward the plans to a local 3-D printer owner to fabricate the item from a variety of materials.
“You won’t even think of this as something special or cool, it’ll just be a part of your life,” he said.
Read more at the Bend Bulletin.
