thisistheverge: Microsoft acquires multitouch company Perceptive Pixel Steve Ballmer has just announced Microsoft’s acquisition of Perceptive Pixel, a company focused on research, development, and production of multitouch interfaces. The company is perhaps best known for the 82-inch multitouch display that Microsoft demoed at MWC. Jeff Han, Perceptive Pixel founder and new Microsoft employee, says the display is the “world’s largest true multitouch and stylus display,” capable of supporting “hundreds of touch inputs simultaneously.”  You may recall Jeff Han from his 2006 TED talk where he demo’d a large multitouch display. Remember, this was about a year and a half before the iPhone took multitouch mainstream. High-res

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Microsoft acquires multitouch company Perceptive Pixel

Steve Ballmer has just announced Microsoft’s acquisition of Perceptive Pixel, a company focused on research, development, and production of multitouch interfaces. The company is perhaps best known for the 82-inch multitouch display that Microsoft demoed at MWC. Jeff Han, Perceptive Pixel founder and new Microsoft employee, says the display is the “world’s largest true multitouch and stylus display,” capable of supporting “hundreds of touch inputs simultaneously.” 

You may recall Jeff Han from his 2006 TED talk where he demo’d a large multitouch display. Remember, this was about a year and a half before the iPhone took multitouch mainstream.