Back when I was at Fluid, I was the lead engineer for The North Face In-Store Explorer, which involved .NET 3.0-based touchscreen kiosks and plasma displays. The kiosk was (perhaps) the first production application to launch on Microsoft Windows Vista, especially given that we launched before Vista was even released. This was easily the largest and most challenging product I have ever worked on, and I can’t even begin to mention how much I’ve learned about WPF, Vista and kiosk-based applications. (Well I guess I could mention them, sounds like some new blog fodder to me). In the meantime, though, I’ve gotten several requests to show what the kiosk actually looks like in action. Tommy, my right-hand man on this project, made a really clean video cap of the kiosk in action:

Get the Flash Player to see this player.

Of course, this doesn’t do the 1280×1024 30fps experience justice; nothing beats seeing it in person.

Microsoft is also featuring a case study that talks about the project in more detail.