Multi-touch and NUI News: NUITEQ's Multi-touch Snowflake Suite for Windows 7 |
| Multi-touch and NUI News: NUITEQ's Multi-touch Snowflake Suite for Windows 7 Posted: 06 Jul 2010 07:22 AM PDT NUITEQ is a company that has been involved in multi-touch technologies for the past few years, and works diligently at ensuring that it keeps up with the evolution in interactive displays and software. The company's Snowflake Suite is now available for Windows 7, and is compatible with 3M Touch Systems, N-trig, NextWindow, Lumino, and other third-party platforms. Here is the current compatibility list, and also a list of Snowflake Suite for Winodws 7 features: Compatibility * NextWindow platforms like HP TouchSmart IQ500, IQ770, IQ800 series and the Dell Studio One (all 2 touch) * N-trig platforms like HP TouchSmart TX2, Dell Latitude XT/XT2 and others * 3M Touch Systems multi-touch kit * Lumio platforms * dreaMTouch * PQ Labs * Wacom Snowflake Suite for Windows 7 Features * Detailed user manual included with FAQ * Developed on fast and reliable C++ platform * Intuitive * Customizable backgrounds, logo's, images, 3d models, videos etc * Gesture recognition library * TUIO / OSC (Open Sound Control) support (sending and receiving events) * Low level API * Hardware accelerated rendering * Support for wide variety of media types (jpg,jpeg,tga,png,dds,gif,tif, tiff, bmp,mov,avi,wav,ogg) * Advanced window handler that supports scaling and rotation * Audio support * Multi-threaded resource handler (For fast data visualization) Snowflake Suite is also compatible with the following systems: RELATED "The 3M multi-touch displays support up to 20 finger touches simultaneously and come with a one year warranty. NUITEQ's Snowflake Suite, is included at no additional charge, offering the benefits of a complete bundled product of hardware and software, being the perfect solution to get started with multi-touch technology."  Photo Credit: NUITEQ Case Study "NUITEC freely assisted handicapped children with their education, by applying multi-touch technology for Action For Kids, a UK based national charity working with children and young people with physical and learning disabilities.The children used NUITEQ's award winning multi-touch software product Snowflake Suite, to enhance their way of learning, by offering a more playful and intuitive solution, in comparison to conventional learning methods." http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com  |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2010 06:07 AM PDT The Microsoft Applied Sciences Group has been working on several projects that have the potential of changing how we interact with various displays and surfaces in the very near future. Here's some what I came across my RSS feeds and Google Alerts this morning: INAVATE July 5, 2010 3D Gesture Interaction "In this demonstration, we've placed the Microsoft Applied Science's wedge technology behind Samsung's transparent OLED display. This enables a camera to image through the display, see the user's hand above it, and alter the image based upon her gestures." -Microsoft Applied Sciences Group 3D Without the Glasses: A new type of display from Microsoft produces multiple images and tracks the viewers eyes - Kate Greene, MIT Technology Review (6/11/2010) According to an article in MIT's Technology Review, "the new lens, which is thinner at the bottom than at the top, steers light to a viewer's eyes by switching light-emitting diodes along its bottom edge on and off. Combined with a backlight, this makes it possible to show different images to different viewers, or to create a stereoscopic (3-D) effect by presenting different images to a person's left and right eye. "What's so special about this lens is that it allows us to control where the light goes," says Steven Bathiche, director of Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group." -Kate Greene, Technology Review Steerable Multi-view Display "In this demonstration, we use head tracking to determine where multiple users are. Then, with the Microsoft Applied Sciences' wedge technology, we steer completely independent images to each user. In the video, one user is seeing a sun while at the same time another is seeing a rocket. This is maintained even as the users change positions relative to each other." -Microsoft Applied Sciences Group Transparent Display for Telepresence "In this demonstration, we've placed the Microsoft Applied Science's wedge technology behind Samsung's transparent OLED display. This enables a camera to image directly through the display. In the video, objects held up to the screen are captured and shown to the user on the other side of the telepresence communication (the other monitor in the video), while far away from the screen, the display shows the user a view dependent image."-Microsoft Applied Sciences Group Steerable 3D Auto Stereo Display "In this demonstration, we use head tracking to determine where a user's eyes are. Then, with the Microsoft Applied Sciences' wedge technology, we steer different views of the scene to each eye to produce a 3D image without the need for glasses or for fixing the location of the user." -Microsoft Applied Sciences Group Mid-air Interactive Display "In this demonstration, we illuminate objects above the display with infrared light. We capture the reflection using the Microsoft Applied Sciences' wedge technology. This enables us to see above the display while keeping the form factor small. Seeing above the display allows us to track the interaction between direct contacts on the display. In the video, the user associates a function (color choice) with one hand and a different function (zoom/rotation) with the other hand. This tool persistence is maintained regardless of the relative positions of the hands." -Microsoft Applied Sciences Group RELATED Microsoft Applied Sciences Group Website About Microsoft Applied Sciences Group "The Applied Sciences Group (ASG) is an applied research and development team dedicated to createing the next generation of computer interaction technologies. The interdisciplinary group focuses on the synergy between optics, electronics and software to create novel human computer interfaces. The ASG is part of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft Corp. and mainly supports projects for Microsoft Hardware, XBox, and Microsoft Surface. It also works closely with Microsoft Research." http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com  |
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