Multitouch

DSI Multitouch construction – Part 4.5

This is just a small update with a few new photos… I’ve have now painted the table top black, I used a matte black spray paint (because I think its easier to get an even colour with) and then went over the top with a clear gloss. A also made a temporary top cover and […]

DSI Multitouch construction – Part 4

Its been a while since I posted an update on my Multitouch coffee table. I am still working on it, just little bits at a time so no significant progress has been made worth posting. But here are some more photos of the progress. I will have some more recent shots up later in the […]

Multitouch Paint

Multitouch Paint ( I haven’t given it a proper name yet) is a painting application I have been working on over the last couple weeks. Basically I wanted to create an app that was more then simple solid lines you see with most other Flash painting programs. I wanted something that was more like paint […]

Future Interface Concepts

Here is a small collection of my favourite user interface concept videos. You will have to use Red-Blue 3D glasses to watch the second one properly.

Actuating Widgets on Interactive Tabletops

This is probably one of the best concepts I’ve seen recently for interactive tabletops. Tangible controls/widgets that can be controlled by magnets to self switch and move across the table. There is also a very interesting approach for redirecting IR light around the magnets so the cameras can pick up the widgets’ presence. Check out […]

Microsoft Research

Although it might not seem like it Microsoft is really along way ahead of nearly all the other major tech companies. But no one really gets to see their cool stuff because it takes place in their research centres and doesn’t always make it into consumer products. Below is a collection of videos from Microsoft […]

Magnetic Words Multitouch App

Here is a small app I created in Flash in less than 10 minutes (most of that time was getting words!). Inspired by those fridge magnets which are a bunch of words that can be mixed and matched to make obscure and hilarious sentences. Excuse the dodgey touch response at the start… my screen still […]

DSI Multitouch construction – Part 3

Over the weekend I made a lot more progress on my multitouch coffee table. I also discovered some issues – firstly the original backlight emits way too much infra-red light so I am going to have to make a custom one out of ultra-bright LED strips, and secondly I don’t seem to be getting any […]

My Multitouch Tangible Shooting Experiment

Last night I started building a shooting game in AS3 using tangible objects placed on my touch screen. This was inspired by the video I showed in the previous post. The video below shows my first test with directional shooting, though I havent added targets in yet. Since my set up uses FTIR technology I […]

Tangible Gaming with Multi-touch

Found this cool video on the NUI Group forums showcasing an Asteroids game that Javier Marco has created, using actual objects placed on the screen as spaceships that shoot enemies. Very cool. Watch the video below. I think I might try something like this when I get some free time!