king talk

Besides the talks at TOCA ME 2009 (Munich) the visitors could play around with a 70inch multi touch table from strukt. The struktable was running different playful apps. Often very abstract, like a color picker tool, but fun to interact and watch.

You can find the whole documentation of the multi touch research at www.multitouch.at. They´re using vvvv for the blob detections and as software for creating interface elements. While they were developing the application, they used the 15 inch wide screen multi touch display from Stantum, the SMK 15.4. It´s affordable, you can buy the developer kit (including API) for about 3.000 EUR.

Another great Blog for multi touch research is the one from Tim Roth (Zürich). At his blog you can find the latest news about hardware and software regarding multi touch tables. Another nice developer blog comes from Johannes Luder Schmidt. Just check both. If you´re interested in multi touch, you still may know the NUI Group from Sweden. They are one of the early pioneers in documenting multi touch development for the masses and they have a great tracker called tbeta (former touchlib). This tracker and some demo applications can be downloaded for free and installed for all systems. We used it for our german multi touch tutorial and had really good results. Alternatives are the Touché framework (Mac only) and the opentouch. Jens Franke (PAGE author) said that they should track faster and more precisely. That´s what we need  ; )

More pictures from the struktable at TOCA ME 2009…