{"id":120684,"date":"2020-11-13T13:37:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T13:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=439940"},"modified":"2020-11-13T13:37:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T13:37:16","slug":"microsoft-garage-project-enables-360-degree-panoramic-sketches-on-the-surface-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/13\/microsoft-garage-project-enables-360-degree-panoramic-sketches-on-the-surface-duo\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Garage project enables 360-degree, panoramic sketches on the Surface Duo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly two years ago, we released a Garage project<\/a> created by a passionate engineer who channeled his classical architecture training and love for drawing into a 360 sketch app. Sketch 360 enables artists to create full, 360-degree, panoramic sketches with ease, using an innovative grid design. Originally released on Windows and designed around Surface Laptop, Surface Go, and the power of the Surface Pen, the app is now available on Android<\/a>, leveraging the unique, two-screen form factor of the Surface Duo<\/strong> for on-the-go artists, architects, VR game designers\u2013or anyone who wants to capture their imagination in 360 degrees.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThroughout my career, my passion has been for building and using creative <\/span><\/span>tools<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>so <\/span><\/span>my imagination comes alive with a dual-screen, pen\/touch capable device that folds out from my pocket to the size of my typical journal page.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

\u2013Michael Scherotter, Principal Program Manager and Sketch 360 creator<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Bringing Sketch 360 to the Surface Duo<\/h3>\n

Sketch 360 creator and Principal Program Manager Michael Scherotter outlines his experience re-imagining the UWP app for the Duo in full detail, featured on the Surface Duo Dev Blog<\/a>. Michael and a team of volunteer hackers brought Sketch 360 from a hack project to a releasable experiment and are extending an invitation to external collaborators by open sourcing the Android application<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was up for the challenge of moving my native C# UWP app to a C# Xamarin Forms<\/span><\/span>. W<\/span><\/span>hen the Microsoft Garage sponsored an internal hackathon to encourage employees to build or adapt apps for the Surface Duo, I jumped at the chance,\u201d shares Michael, who is a multi-year hacking veteran. The largest company hacking event takes place at the Microsoft Hackathon each July, drawing thousands of employees and hack projects, but hacking culture thrives all year round. When Michael entered his prototype into a dedicated Surface Duo hackathon, his project was selected among three winners that would go on to share their prototypes with experts and leaders of the Surface business. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to demoing Sketch 360 adapted for Duo, Michael and the other teams were able to share their experience and feedback about adapting or creating experiences from scratch for Duo. \u201cXamarin forms made the process of creating <\/span><\/span>a cross-platform mobile creative app straightforward<\/span><\/span>, and with the additional tools <\/span><\/span>in <\/span><\/span>the <\/span><\/span>Xamarin<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>Essentials, I was able to make it <\/span><\/span>as <\/span><\/span>functional<\/span><\/span> and performant as a native app.  For most of the development, using the <\/span><\/span>Surface Duo <\/span><\/span>E<\/span><\/span>mulator<\/span><\/span><\/a> enabled <\/span><\/span>my volunteer team of hackers and me to build the app without having a physical device<\/span><\/span> in-hand.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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A hacking culture enables ideas, diverse perspectives, and organic collaboration, to flow laterally and vertically through an organization to fuel innovation.<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Developers can find a detailed outline of Michael\u2019s experience, reimagining the app for Android<\/a>, on the Surface Duo Dev Blog.<\/p>\n

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Mobile productivity, powered by two screens<\/h3>\n

The Microsoft Surface Duo offers a new way to get things done while on the go. Open two screens and discover a better way to get things done. View two apps at once or span one across both screens, drag and drop between screens, and say goodbye to constant app switching.<\/p>\n