There’s no question multi-touch enabled hardware is going to be invading many homes and offices in the years to come, and it’s exciting to see how some software makers are already building applications that take full advantage of the multi-touch experience, aided by support baked into modern operating systems and increasingly powerful graphics processors. But [...]
My daughter stopped by the office and I couldn’t help but let her play with the TouchSmart PC and BabySmash. What’s interesting is that she immediately goes for multi-touch and it looks as if the commands are translated to a “zoom” button on the keyboard being pressed etc.
This is a demonstration of the capabilities Dell XT Tablet with Windows 7 the next generation of Windows with multi-touch capabilities enabled. The touch events were captured and converted to TUIO messages for Flash and C# applications. Although these features are currently limited to SDK supplied by NTrig we were able to still leverage these [...]
Microsoft’s top Windows business executive said Monday that for all his excitement about Windows 7, he doubts the release of the operating system will lead to a significant spike in PC sales. “History would tell us that generally as you ship a Windows release into the market…the bump is very modest,” Microsoft senior vice president [...]
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Posted 11 June 2009
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Video demo of the HP TouchSmart TX2 tablet PC running Windows 7 RC 64-bit with multi-touch features. N-trig DuoSenseâ„¢ Multi-Touch Beta Package (2.59) for Windows 7 Release Candidate The DuoSenseTM multi-touch package for Windows 7 Release Candidate enables ISVs and developers to experience the Hands-onTM effect, and allows software applications to be developed with integral [...]
With a two-finger swipe, the video played faster and with three fingers it played faster still. Zhao even did his Mike Fratello impression, circling one of the players in red with another swirl of his finger, much as the “telestrator czar” does on TV. In another corner of the cramped hallway that serves as the [...]
This message was sent to us from Brice Royer: —————- Subject: Are you going to meet Jeff Han? Hey, Jeff Han will be appearing in San Jose! I just read the program for Interactive Displays 2009 and I’m really excited. You can read the full story here: (Thanks Joan for the tip!) http://www.int-displays.com Keynoting the [...]
User experience (UX) principles can help you to effectively create software for multi-touch, multi-user, and gestural devices such as the Microsoft Surface. These new platforms bring new challenges, some that can be partially solved using current software design paradigms, but many that will require applying new ideas from the cutting edge of Interaction Design (IxD) [...]
Funny thing happened this week in the tech press. On Thursday, the Inquirer printed a story with the headline “Touch Screen Is the Future of Computing, Says Microsoft.” The very next day, Vnunet.com published another story headlined “Touch Screens Are Not the Future of Computing, Says HP.” Microsoft is right. HP is wrong. Again. In [...]
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Posted 29 March 2009
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According to an outside developer, Microsoft is already working on the second generation of its multi-touch Surface computer, although the first is barely out. Developer Joe Olsen, whose company Phenomblue writes applications for the Microsoft’s multi-touch Surface computer, has said he’s been told that a second generation of the device is in development and [...]
