Taking a Closer Look at the Origami Experience 2.0

re: Taking a Closer Look at the Origami Experience 2.0

jclopez — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:43:48 GMT

Hey Brandom and kenlefeb,

Today was released the Origami Experience 2.0, I just downloaded and installed in my Tablet HP Tx2120us :) wow..... thanks Brandom and the team for listening us.

As other comments on differents blogs, I also notice it is a slow application, despite my tablet has 4GB RAM. Origami also improve the touch settings, probably this is the best part for 12" screens with passive digitizers.

the last comment, the battery and the wi-fi icons don't work, it usually hung the application.

Still testing ....

kenlefeb thank you for your support in this thread.

Cheers my friends,

Carlos

re: Taking a Closer Look at the Origami Experience 2.0

mdjkim — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:37:48 GMT

Will there be a similar version if Windows Mobile 7 gets installed on UMPCs?

http://mdjosephkim.blogspot.com/

re: Taking a Closer Look at the Origami Experience 2.0

kenlefeb — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:14:28 GMT

Brandon, I think it is important that the Origami team realize that what they are building is NOT simply a "work-around" for the constraints of a small screen, but that it is a platform for a new paradigm of working with the computer. That is why Origami could be such a big hit with the Tablet PC user.

The mainstream Tablet PC owner, who really just uses their tablet as a notebook that can swivel its screen isn't who I'm talking about, of course. But, those of us who prefer slate mode, and have become so passionate about the "organic" input modes of ink and touch, would absolutely love a desktop paradigm that was designed, from the ground up, for natural input methods. That is what Origami really is.

I know that you can only focus on a finite scope of features, so I'm not suggesting the Origami development team preprioritize their focus... just stop excluding the Tablet PC, and let us deal with whatever quirks might exist because you assumed we have small screens. :)

The last time I tried Origami 1.0, the setup program detected that I'm not a UMPC and refused to install. Just remove that check and let me try it, please. If you want to check for touch or ink, that's fine... even tell me that since I'm not on a UMPC you're not going to be interested in my feedback on problems, if you want... that's fine. You can easily make it clear that you're not targeting, nor supporting Tablet PCs, without prohibiting us from even trying to use it. :)

Whatever team is responsible for the Tablet PC features in Windows would do well to learn from the ideas coming out of the Origami team, I believe.

Anyway, enough of my spouting... Thanks for your blog, Brandon. It is really cool that you actually read the comments and participate in the conversation! :)

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re: Taking a Closer Look at the Origami Experience 2.0

delsolman — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:13:35 GMT

I believe tablets with 11" or less screens with origami experience. Most mainstream 12" tablets probably don't need everything. but i believe the picture password is a neat tool that all tablets can benefits.

re: Taking a Closer Look at the Origami Experience 2.0

Brandon LeBlanc — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:23:48 GMT

jclopez, the Origami Experience is designed specifically for the UMPC in that it creates a experience based off the screen resolution and small form-factor for the UMPC. Many of the features the Origami Experience has also exists on Tablet PCs. If you have a Tablet PC that has touch capabilities you should be able to do some interesting things. The Origami Experience software is designed so that UMPC users can stay in the Origami Experience software for a good experience. Tablet PC users mostly want the full-on Windows experience. I hear your feedback tho and am sending it to the Origami Experience folks.

vista56rocks, I am running a low-end Samsung Q1 Ultra UMPC and this software works quite well. The Origami Experience 2.0 software is designed for most of the new UMPC devices on the market today.

Stay tuned as I have Part 1 of my 4 part Origami Experience 2.0 series of blog posts going up real soon!

- Brandon

re: Taking a Closer Look at the Origami Experience 2.0

vista56rocks — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:10:02 GMT

While, I don't hate the Oragami experience. It is nice. Several of the Ultra Mobile PC's out there are not powerful enough to use the full capabilities of Vista and this. I've used a Samsung UMPC.

re: Taking a Closer Look at the Origami Experience 2.0

jclopez — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:51:35 GMT

Hey people!

Don't you agree that the origami experience could be a great app for the new tablets with pasive digitizers? or for the tablets that have both pasive and active digitizers?

New ones that include the touch screen besides the pen experience are probably a new breed of laptops (ok, ok, probably I am overreacting on this). I think that this new touch screen experience tablets can take advantage of the Origami Experience in the same way that UMPCs do or probably better.

The opportunity to be able to work with OE in 12.1" touch tablets, can promote and spread the word of the benefits of digitizers (in this case pasive, but I think active too).

What do you think? Do you think Microsoft can work on this and promote this technology on tablets like HP TX2000z series preparing the field for the future? Personally I believe that the future includes touch experience in several big form factor devices. for instance MS surface technology is one of the big form factors. Why not on a 12.1" screen?

re: Taking a Closer Look at the Origami Experience 2.0

Brandon LeBlanc — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:31:22 GMT

jclopez and kenlefeb,

The Origami Experience software is designed to run on UMPCs only - unfortunately it will not work for Tablet PCs. The apps in the Origami Experience are designed to run at resolutions on the UMPC such as 1024x600. I am not sure how the installer determines if the system is a UMPC or not - it may be the screen resolution. You can most certainly try to install it on a Tablet PC but its most likely not going to work or work correctly. You can try installing the first version of the Origami Experience software here as the new version I am talking about here has not yet been released:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AC349E84-C109-4AE7-A973-411C1DE2457F&displaylang=en

Thanks,

Brandon

re: Taking a Closer Look at the Origami Experience 2.0

kenlefeb — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:12:53 GMT

I want to second the opinion that this would be a great application for the Tablet PC form factor, in addition to the UMPC.

Especially, those of us who are using touch screen tablets in slate mode, the Origami Experience would be a great way to interface with my most common applications.

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