Multi-Touch Systems that I Have Known and Loved

Great article by Bill Buxton on the history of multi-point touch systems.  Clique here to go there.

Multi-Touch Systems that I Have Known and Loved

Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

MultiTouch Cell

Now, this is really something.  A truly modular concept, that uses LCD display as opposed to most commonly used projector-based systems. That alone is a considerable boost in image contrast, resolution and colour quality.  And said to run at 60 frames per second and in any light condition, it must be the Maserati of multitouch (I’m guessing prices are equivalent).   Sounds pretty good to me 

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Mü project: multitouch table for kids

We came across a very interesting project calle Mü, which is a multitouch table who is capable of recognizing objects. The applications, built for kids from 5 to 7 years old, are very interesting and teaches kids how to read/write and other stuff.  We highly recommend you to visit their site and watch the videos.

Who said learning can´t be fun, anyway?

Posted in hardware, software | No Comments »

NUI Group: thank you!

From time to time it comes a company who really does a great job in bringing together people who has common interests. Well, we think NUI Group just did that for the multitouch community. If you are thinking about starting a multitouch project, head straight over to their forums. You can learn a lot about how to build your own table (hardware) or an application in Flash or other technology (software).

So, this post is basically a thankful note to NUI Group. They deserve it!

Posted in howto, reference | No Comments »

Kick off

We finally decided to publish our multitouch blog, where we expect to share things with everyone who is working with this wonderful technology!

For us it all started in 2007, when we got involved in projects with Fundação CERTI, here in Florianopolis, Brazil. They built their own multitouch table and did some very interesting projetcs specifically for corporate training for companies like Petrobras. Our role was to build Flash apps who could handle not only the multitouch interaction, but also communicate between the table and the screen – yes, the equipment has a LCD TV in front of the table. So we have two Flash apps who communicate using Local Connection. Because Fundação CERTI wanted two teams playing against each other, we also had to handle the communication between PCs, using a socket server built in Java.

Well, we had to learn a LOT this year, and it was great! Multitouch interaction is vey challenging and we are passionate about it. We hope through this blog to show some work we are doing and most of all, to present all the cool stuff that is being done by the multitouch community.

Posted in hardware, portfolio, software | 2 Comments »