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Recently FWA wrote about this niceley done multi-touch solution from PhenomenBlue. You can see yourself in the Microsoft Surface table, play with other people in a virtual puppet show. And of course send your snapshot to your twitter/twitpic. Love it.
Read more: Project – Behind the scenes.

Microsoft Surface – Moppet Mashup from Phenomblue on Vimeo.

“Razorfish partnered with the Microsoft team to deliver multi-touch experiences which emulate a Windows Phone 7 Series device. The experience is deployed on multiple 40″ multi-touch displays at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.”

Windows Phone 7 Series – Touch Experience from Razorfish – Emerging Experiences on Vimeo.

Swedish company FlatFrog gets funding to accelerate the commercialisation of their nice multi-touch solutions. I like their thin solution and this is good news! I believe this confirms what Razorfish wrote about in yesterdays excellent report “Five technologies that will change your business” : Multi-touch will transform Retail in 2010…
Exciting times!

From: Crunchgear

No need to touch – just give it a wave!

Just wave your hand to access music, web, your family and friends.
You don´t even need to touch the surface.  Read more: Gesture Tube or Touch User Interface.
Gesture Cube uses 3D spatial movement tracking to help transform navigating a device into a magical intuitive experience. The underlying GestIC® technology detects your hand´s approach and movements – your favorite apps and media all at a wave of your hand.

Read more at Edinburgh Napier University – Future LIving, Future life website. Or watch the BBC news (with Swedish Snowflake technology) about future offices.

Pearl Media (US) has produced this interactive storefront installation together with EyeClick. Looking forward to this year and doing similar interactive projects at my new job… Yeah, this year is gonna be fun, inspiring and exciting!

User Interface Design GmbH wins the “Touch First Developer Challenge“, a Microsoft Surface design contest. Both the graphical design and interaction design is really really nice!  ”The award-winning application is an interactive company presentation. Digital cards give information on reference projects, competences, methods, and contact persons of UID. The Surface table is operated via gestural interaction. Apart from gestures that already exist such as touching, rotating, or scaling, UID also developed own gestures.”

I don’t really like bus shelters. Well -up until today. Check this campaign for the upcoming movie Avatar (and LG cellphones). Using touch screens they turn the bus shelter into a multimedia kiosk… Me like.

For more info on how to transform public spaces to interactive marketing… check this blog: The word is my interface.

And…of course  - MIT – has a very futuristic bus shelter called the EyeStop. Public transport will be so much more fun in the future…

Virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. Interactive presentation technology is moving fast. It seems to me - that Germany is ahead of things – already at the edge of new technology with new companies popping up and doing amazingly creative work. So: another new innovative company from Frankfurt gets my total attention (and love) - NewMedia Yuppies (what a great company name! haha I wanna be your Yuppie!). They work with Frauenhofer Researchers and Instant reality.  Well worth checking out these links!

But ok, I do love Germany and their innovative companies. Also:  a New Zeeland company called MindSpace Solutions, have some innovative people and products as well. Check out this amazing AR binocular technology! It rocks my socks!

Globalzepp (Spain) does interactive projections with AR – and most probably this is gonna be big on events and why not as interactive ads in shops? Nice to see how the use of AR is growing so fast…

The entertainment industry is doing a lot of interesting new stuff as well in the AR business. Check this post from the Future Digital Life blog. Mark Mine, a Walt Disney Imagineering Director, says “Seeing is believing, but touching is truth”…