Any surface a multi-touch system

I found a link to a start up which seems to be selling a system to do the whole projector/kinet sensor and then turn it into a windows 8 multi-touch signal ( I think ) 
http://www.ubi-interactive.com


Amazing how quick things go from idea to laboratory to commercial application these days.

All that is lacking is apps of course.

Multi-touch meets online collaboration for all the right reasons

3 from B-Reel & B-Reel Films on Vimeo.

I remember seeing a proposal for this kind of system some years ago at an old MediaMatic/Door of Perception conference ( with out the sales angle) . I was excited then - you can have a display were everyone gets the text the right way round. Naturally easy to do multi-touch with a  IR camera with this  too.

I wonder what the client has - a flash plug-in or something ? How much do you get the feeling that the operator has to work blind ( not seeing the client ) .

More cool tables

Also a link to useful collection of museum components at Open Exhibits

Idenum have made a very nice plasma based multi touch table - anyone got any budget left guys?

I can only say one thing - leg room!

Microsoft Surface watch out

Looks like the age of projector based multi-touch is over.




Here in the lab we are busy with experiments and failing email.

multi-touch

cheap light pen instructions

Movid - http://movid.org/Main/HomePage - worth a play

tBeta Open Community vision http://ccv.nuigroup.com/ - has this upgraded recently ?

Rectorvision no-change

DimondTouch with finger tracking (sound familiar?) http://gil.imag.fr/Downloads/Software

ObjectiveC multitouch framework for TUIO.

Nice light pen version - http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/multitouch ( looks a bit slow).

http://www.future-instruments.net/fr/download.html looks nice claims to be hight speed system using y OptiTrack cameras;

Cambridge Tourist multitouch table in the news

Here it is.

Cambridge tourist app in the news

The tourist information app is currently in the local news !

Cambridge Tourist information office application on the Microsoft Surface

Our next application is about to go into a trial at the Tourist information office at  Peas Hill Cambridge ( CB2 3AD).  The current application is very slick but thats easy to say before real people get their real hands on it. 


We are inviting people to come down and have a look at it and try it out for them selves from the 17th of May to the 10th of June. We are looking for groups of people who might want to report back there responses at the end of the day. 


Given the amount of preparation its going to be a textbook interaction paper. 


Come and help break the software ! The location is http://www.visitcambridge.org/VisitCambridge/ContactUs.aspx


The video is new and still hasn't settled at YouTube hopefully the video will sort its self out at some point. 

ten little fingers

Lovely animation. I would love to try this interface even better if I could do some user evaluation. Makes me want to do a user interface with with two mice. This is really a bi-manual interface.

10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.

Image of the open day

Busy week for the table. Image of Paul demoing the table at the OU open day.

Images from DANA center gig

DanaCenter

Another system how too

I'm mid paper writing at the moment

but got emailed this

http://labs.ideo.com/2009/02/11/hacked-rear-projection-tv-into-multitouch-display/

Is a good how-to on how to do laser scanning.

How to build applications for the touch table

The system I'm currenrtly useing si the reacTIVIsion system 

http://reactivision.sourceforge.net/

The processing library is here 

TUIO_Processing.zip

the java one is 

TUIO_JAVA.zip

The Simulator is 

TUIO_Simulator.zip

http://www.tuio.org/?software

has a list of other stimulators, libries, trackers and so on. 

You needs the processing TUIO lib. 

http://www.tuio.org/?processing

I tend to go with processing it goes full screen straight away. 

http://www.processing.org/

The lanauges is a reduced version of Java, but it handles the constantly redrawing stuff. 

I tend to use http://www.jbox2d.org/ to do the physics of interaction. 

To get stuff working you might need open sound control (http://opensoundcontrol.org/) library 

http://www.sojamo.de/libraries/oscP5/  ( for processing). 

My first iPhone App!

I've worked my way through the complex process and I have managed to build my first iPhone app and got it going on my Mac. 

Wow ! 

igiGht -

Company callled Immersion are making a nice table - caught my eye due to boxy nature. 

http://www.ilight-3i.com/

No sense of how much.

http://www.crayonphysics.com/ the immersion guys go this going on a table nice.

French Mac OS X Diamond touch libs?

Looks like it must check this out at some point.

I must also check out  the update to DiamondTouchLib - looks like people have been 

working on it. 

More useful links on building tables

More useful links on Silicon building for zero force tables.