UPDATE: Looks like Olsen was wrong. Microsoft has stated that Second Light is not the Surface 2 after all.
The Microsoft Surface 2, the next version of Microsoft‘s touchscreen computer for fancy showrooms and the excessively wealthy, could be out by 2012. Read on for the full details.
At the South by Southwest Festival in Texas, Joe Olsen, a Microsoft Surface application developer, said that Second Light, the name for the Microsoft Surface 2 touchscreen table computer, is just two to three years away.
Redmond wouldn’t confirm a release date for the Microsoft Surface 2, but specs and features for the Microsoft Surface 2 also emerged at the conference. Microsoft Surface 2 will feature a second projector so you’ll be able to overlay images on top of each other, a useful tool for tourist sites and anywhere that needs a map.
The Microsoft Surface 2 computer will also pack infrared sensors, so that it’ll recognise touches without you even having to poke the screen. That’s either going to be incredibly intuitive, or incredibly annoying. The Microsoft Surface 2 is still in R&D at the moment, but we’ll let you know as soon as the multitouch machine breaks out of the lab.
