Live Labs Shadow Box on the Surface

Posted By: Nic Fillingham | Aug 2nd @ 9:57 AM

Now this is cool. Jeff Weir and John Lynn work in the Microsoft Live Labs team (that's the group that created Photosynth). They also have a couple of Surface units in their office. So the two of them came up with an idea to build a little application called Shadow Box (or unofficially "nightmare box") that 'burns' in and out images of what the infrared camera inside the surface sees. The end result is both awesome and spooky! Check out the video of Shadow Box in action.

More on Live Labs: http://labs.live.com/

Tags: live labs, shadow box, Surface

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dentaku

That's very creative, almost like painting with light.

jkrebo

Ha! I get it: Palm trees!

The face copying reminds me of the photocopier at work Wink

quikboy

Now that's amazing. It's like you can make real art with Surface. Not just messy finger painting. And it's sort of like a camera, being able to show the card faces or real faces that well enough. Shadow Box could be a real artist' tool. :^)

wetworker

Sweet, I guess you could do a painting with that.
It would be cool if after you've finished your masterpiece you could email it to yourself, Or a friend with a nice virtual keyboard. ...I can only dream.

Albert1690

Finger Painting 2.0, haha. Take that Crayola-mess-less-paint-kit!

Umm, I'm quite amazed at the quality of the "burned" image. There are definately many undiscovered applications for this; the opportunities are endless.