IT abroad: Microsoft to invent super-fast touchscreens

Microsoft researchers are going to invent a super-fast touchscreen that will react to user’s touch hundred times as quicker as average touchscreens, TechCrunch’s blog reads.

Average touchscreens have a latency of a 100ms, which yields a noticeable bit of lag between a user touching a screen and the screen displaying a reaction to it. Thus the researchers are going to knock that delay between touch and tracking down to 1ms.

Bringing that sort of instantaneous feedback to the many screens in our lives could help to bridge the gap between operating a bit of software and the feeling of interacting with objects, Microsoft’s researchers say.

Microsoft Research lab will develop such a super-low-latency screen. Though Microsoft doesn’t announce exact terms, Paul Dietz, one of the project’s participants hopes that a 1ms touchscreen can be implemented over the next decade.