The people over at Obscura Digital pulled off another nice piece of installation. Using their own multi-touch software and combining it with the holographic projection technology of Musion’s Eyeliner 3D System they created quite some magic. If you look closely at the end you can see that the operator has tiny LED lamps in his hands that, if i’m guessing correctly, light up once he squeezes them, which then will create a blob for the system to recognzie.
via Engadget
It was rumored for quite a while now that Microsoft is working on a spherical multi-touch display prototype. Today, at Microsoft’s Faculty Summit in Redmond, people will get the first chance to interact with it. The sphere is built on commercially available hardware by Global Imagination of Los Gatos, California, but Microsoft managed to put the camera for tracking user interactions behind the SAME lens as the projection source. This of course is a clever way to avoid tracking from outside or a bulky globe-stand.
As of now, Microsoft does not seem to aim for a commercial version of the spherical multi-touch display, they simply want to proof the concept and also see how people accept the unconventional screen and its interaction possibilities.
Make sure to check out the video on this page.
via Engadget
The french company Stantum, formerly know as Jazzmutant and developers of the infamous Lemur (Gregor wrote about it), have developed a 15,4″ multi-touch TFT screen. This was released in January already, but since then there have not been any news on this - we still try to get hold of one. I am sure that it works as smooth and responsive as the Lemur, but allowing to display whatever you need on a 1280×800 TFT, which is just what we need for interactive terminals, media browsers, games… and development of applications for our big multi-touch table.
Missile Command on a Multi-touch videowall
I posted about the Tenori-On before, and it seems that audio interfaces for electronic music are becoming more and more of a high-tech thing. I stumpled over the LEMUR by accident, looked at the website and was just amazed by how this multi-touch interface offers sheer endless possibilities of controls. And what’s really interesting is, how they managed to have a multi-touch surface on a screen that actually recognizes exact coordinates. We will have to look into this more detailed. Make sure to check out the video demos.
As one of the first companies, Albatron demonstrated on this year’s Computex a 22″ touchscreen LCD display which would retail for roughly 120% of the price of a usual LCD without touchscreen feature. That surely sounds promising and a little bit surprising at the same time. Their flagship 22″ LCD (1680 x 1050) that has a sensor on each side of the display and the technology is scalable to 24″ and beyond through the addition of a single extra sensor.
No info about this product can be found on Albatron’s Website but we’ll keep you posted about upcoming developments.
