Microsoft's 2016 Surface event by the numbers

Microsoft doubles down on mixed reality.

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UpdatedWed, October 26, 2016 at 5:13 PM UTC

Microsoft held its Surface 2016 event in New York on Wednesday and spent just over two hours showing off its newest laptop, the Surface Book i7, a slew of forthcoming VR headsets (not to mention a bunch of new ways to create content for them) and a ginormous digital drafting desk slash all-in-one computer, the Surface Studio.

Microsoft announced that another free upgrade to Windows 10 will be arriving in the spring of next year. The "Creator's Update" will incorporate 3D design tools, mixed reality capabilities, a streamlined livestreaming setup and many more social features.

The number of dimensions your terrible doodles will take on thanks to Paint 3D. That's also the number of people on Earth who will want to see your tri-dimensional artwork. If it's any comfort, at least Clippy remains dead and buried.

Microsoft announced that it will partner with five hardware manufacturers to bring a line of inexpensive VR headsets to market. Assuming that you don't consider $300 "expensive", that is.

That's how many keys you'll have to stroke in order to launch a livestream in Beam, Window's answer to Twitch. Just hit the Windows key plus "G" and you, too, can have strangers from the internet tell you how you're playing video games all wrong.

The new Surface Studio is Microsoft's first all-in-one tablet/desktop hybrid drafting table thingy. It has a two-plus-foot touch-enabled screen, a digital Surface Pen and something called the Surface Dial that works as both a mouse and tabletop hockey puck.

That's how much you're going to need to come up with before November if you want to get your hands on Microsoft's new flagship laptop, the Surface book i7.

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