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”…
This weekend I watched “Minory Report” to see how the movie producers thought of new technology back in 2002. The movie is full of multi-touch, gestural input interaction, holograms etc. Technologies that today, seven years later, slowly is becoming a reality. Interesting to see: whatever we imagine, becomes reality.
Chief scientist for Oblong Industries, John Underkoffler, was one of the movie’s science and technology advisors to the film and based the design of those scenes directly on his earlier work at MIT. The G-Speak platform is already in use in a variety of Fortune 50 companies, government agencies and universities – Oblong Industries offer a SDK that runs on both Linux and Mac OS X. This blogpost inspired by: Accidental Thinking. 
‘SixthSense‘ is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. This is a technology that creates the WOW effect in me. WOW!! The current prototype system costs approximate $350 to build
Is the keyboard (computer or synthesizer) soon a faded memory? Subcycle takes you on a sonic trip into creativity. Thanks to: Lynn, for the post….
Retail business in Bangkok are investing millions in a “Digital Gateway” at Siam Square. They have understood how to combine new marketing technologies and business. They target “Generation D” (digital) and will use all the latest technologies on display in their lifestyle centre. Innovative Bangkok based agency Xtreamplus delivers huge multi-touch walls (5,2*1,2 m) for digital advertising. Everyday about 10-20 000 people passes through this digital tunnel. Swedish based NUITECH delivers software for the multi-touch installations. So – Im off to Bangkok. Wanna come?
Ubisoft and Eugen Systems is using ‘Intuiface’, the new and innovative surface computing platform designed by IntuiLab from France to their upcoming real-time strategy game R.U.S.E. “Our goal is to provide an innovative gaming experience that enables players to become a strategist and lead armies in a true to life universe,” stated Tony Key, senior vice president of sales and marketing in the US at Ubisoft.
Does a Flickr 3D multi touch browser sounds like this year’s Christmas Gift for your family? Well – I would love to have one! Its made by So Touch agency in London, a new multi-touch digital agency with focus on cutting edge technology and creativity. Sounds like a really nice combination. All the luck to you guys! And a nice agency website as well – please visit!
So touch – Physics // 3D Flickr multi touch browser from So touch on Vimeo.
Agency: Q-Bus.
Location: Berlin.
Description: They are really really good. Combining new technology with architecture. Excellent design, excellent ideas. They inspire me.
This is the new way of interacting with computers. And now its available to your own laptop… Multitouch screens will soon be in everybodys homes. All good – beacause seriously – how much has the computer mouse really evolved since the invention date in the late 1960s? Have a look at the “Evolution of the mouse” for a recap. Looking forward to a multitouch reality…Fujitsu, Dell and HP have their own laptops of course with multitouch and Windows 7. More info at this nice blog: “Interactive Multimedia Technology”…
