VIDEO: Sony's Version of Microsoft's Surface Table
Microsoft's Surface table has been around for what seems like an age but it's pricey and there's not much in the way of competition. However, all that could change next month as Sony brings its own offering, the atracTable, to the, er, table.
Pocketlint carries an exclusive report in which it claims to have been told by Sony that Atracsys, the Swiss optical tracking company behind the 60-inch atracTable, has sold its technology to Sony. Sony says it plans to industrialize a 35-inch HD version of the atracTable in order to compete with the Microsoft Surface.
Built in conjunction with Sony ISS and Atracsys, the table uses two Sony cameras to create a 3D image; these cameras track body movements, acting on changes in the position of your body, arm, hand or finger. Pocketlint lint cites Sony as saying it's sensitive enough to determine the age, sex and emotions of the user.
Check out the video of the atracTable being shown at Vision 2009 last year.
*Image via Pocketlint

I really hope it is just a name and not a limitation as in older MP3 players sony used to make.
So the 3D effect only works for about 1 person/point of view?
AWESOME TIMES WE LIVE IN
VISUAL/ 3D / TOUCH technology is on its way to the being used by everyone...
even those who cant afford it in their homes will start seeing stuff like this in stores and companies they deal with everyday...
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things are REALLY starting to resemble the scifi stuff we all saw in the movies and read about as kids...
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our kids will think the same if you read SCIFI books from this era...
technology is only going to go as far as the imagination can bring it
THIS is why SCIENCE FICTION is usually actual predictions of the future of technology