ActionScript Based Multitouch Table at MAX
Thu, 2007-09-20 08:00 — mikepotter
The team at Natural User Interface is working on an ActionScript 3 platform for tabletop applications, similar to Microsoft Surface. They have a demo table that they've been showing off, and will be bringing the table to Adobe MAX in Chicago at the end of September. The movie below shows a really cool demo.
There are more videos available on Google video here and here.
The key differences between this and what Microsoft is building are that the AS 3 library will be open source, allowing anyone to incorporate this type of functionality into their own applications. Developers will need a touch screen to handle the user's interactions, but the software will be available as open source. You can get involved and learn more at nuigroup.com.
I can see a big use for this in phones that are running FlashLite on them. Although FlashLite doesn't currently run ActionScript 3 code, hopefully that won't be too far down the road. And if Adobe were to ever get Flash running on a hardware chip, things could get really exciting!
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multi-touch?
Will developers need multi-touch capable touch screens or will regular touch screens (non multi-touch) work?
Good question
Good question that I don't know the answer to. I don't know what would be different from a multitouch screen to a regular touch screen.
Mike
Different brands of
Different brands of touchscreens have different ways of registering "touch" - so to answer your question - you will need a multi-touch capable touchscreen in order to support this capability (unless it becomes a standard sometime soon)
10 mouses
If you don't got a multitouch screen, you need 10 mouses to test this :)
About testing
If you want to try out multitouch applications based on touchlib you can use the TUIO simulator to fake 'multitouches'.
DIY kits?
Where can one buy "do it youself" kits for adding touchscreen capabilities to existing monitors?
There currently are no full
There currently are no full DIY yourself kits that add this to existing monitors. The current DIY techniques don't allow one to add to an existing monitor (without taking it apart) as cameras are involved. Please visit us st nuigroup.com to find out more about the techniques and protocols used. A small DIY screen (without visual feedback) can be very simple to build.