Vispol at the “Moderner Staat” Fair in Berlin from 24. – 25. November 2009

My software Vispol will be shown at the booth of the state of Hessen/Germany at the fair “Moderner Staat” in Berlin on 24. and 25. November 2009. It will be shown on the new really cool round [!] multi-touch and TUI table from sensory minds. I will be there on both days.

Microsoft Surface TUIO Overlay SurfaceToTuio

In terms of the NUI research project Squidy at the Konstanz University the TUIO overlay SurfaceToTuio has been developed for Microsoft Surface. Download the SurfaceToTuio component from the sourceforge project site (or via direct download). SurfaceToTuio is available as source code only (there is no executable). However, you can just upload the SurfaceToTuio folder to …

Infrared Light Blocking Foil Test for FTIR Multi-Touch Tables

Figure 1: The Virttable’s display with (right) and without (left) the chosen IR blocking foil. Some time back, I’ve bought some infrared blocking foil for the Virttable from the German foil store Ifoha. Infrared blocking foil is an approach for the blocking of ambient infrared light (e.g. from a light bulb or daylight) ONLY in …

BumpTop 3D Multi-Touch Desktop

BumpTop is a Windows Explorer-like application that offers intuitive gestural multi-touch interaction paradigms with piles of files and folders. Additionally, it has a 3D space in which you can navigate and decorate your workspace. You can copy files to and from your usb stick, to Facebook or you can send them via mail. It seems …

UNFOCUS – FOCUS

I am going to present a few projects on my blog in which I collaborated in one or the other way. The project UNFOCUS – FOCUS is a multi-touch and TUI project that makes use of our fiducialtuioas3 classes. What is UNFOCUS – FOCUS about? How can we know what we do not see?

Touchlib’s TUIO Actionscript 3 Classes Enhanced With Fiducial Support (Source Code)

Important: I discontinued the work for fiducialtuioas3. If you are starting a new project, consider using our new AS3 Tuio library Tuio AS3. As you most certainly came here because you want to use fiducials in AS3 find the according Tuio AS3 fiducial howto here. In his Bachelor thesis Frederic Frieß enhanced the original Touchlib …

PyMT – A Python Multi-Touch Framework

pymt demo reel from Thomas Hansen on Vimeo. With PyMT there is a new kid in town for visual multi-touch interaction frameworks, which is based on the scripting language Python and connects to TUIO producers like the Touchlib, reacTIVision or Touchsmart TUIO. Currently, the most multi-touch applications seem to be implemented in Flash AS3. Flash …

Touchsmart TUIO from Georg Kaindl

Georg Kaindl, the guy who has written the Mac OS X multi-touch tracking software Touché has published Touchsmart TUIO. This is a piece of software, which produces TUIO messages on HP Touchsmart PCs (and any other NextWindow frame). Thus, existing TUIO (multi-touch) applications like those from the nuigroup (which you can e.g. find here) can …