Perceptive Pixel is a division of

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specializing in research, development and production of multi-touch interfaces. Its technology is used in fields including broadcast, defense, geo-intelligence, energy exploration, industrial design and medical imaging. The division originated as an independent company with the name Perceptive Pixel, Inc., headquartered in

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and maintaining offices in Mountain View,

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, and

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Prior to the company's establishment, founder

Jeff Han Jefferson Y. "Jeff" Han (born 1975) is a computer scientist who worked for New York University's (NYU) Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences until 2006. He is one of the main developers of " multi-touch sensing", which, unlike older touch ...

publicly demonstrated multi-touch hardware and software technology at a TED conference in February 2006. Subsequently, the company shipped their first Multi-Touch Workstation and larger

Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall The Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall is a large (81 inch width x 48 inch height) monitor invented by Jeff Han that employs multi-touch technology, and is marketed by Han's company, Perceptive Pixel. Han initially developed the technology for militar ...

in 2007. The latter gained widespread recognition for transforming the way

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covered the 2008 US Presidential elections. In 2009, the Smithsonian awarded Perceptive Pixel the National Design Award in the inaugural category of Interaction Design. On July 9, 2012, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that they would

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Perceptive Pixel Inc. in a transaction that closed three weeks later on July 31. At that year's WPC conference, Ballmer stated the company hoped to use its newly acquired technology to enhance its

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operating system. On January 21, 2015, Microsoft announced the

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, a next-generation device under the

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brand, developed by members of the Perceptive Pixel team.

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