NUI Group the open source multitouch community is now also accesable through Ventrilo. If you want to have a voice conversation for example discuss certain software or hardware topics, hop on to our server.
9 June, Harry van der Veen
Instead of using FTIR as a method for vision based multitouch, you can also use a method of flooding the acrylic surface from the back with an IR illuminator like Microsoft does with their Surface. We created our own IR illuminator by bundling a certain amount of IR leds close to eachother. We did...
7 June, Harry van der Veen
Because of special requests another movie of the game Starcraft being played on our multitouch display. Thanks to Peter (Kwissus) for recording and uploading the movie.
6 June, Harry van der Veen
I posted a movie, some time ago, about Peter playing Starcraft on our multitouch display. But basically this wasn't multitouch, because it wasn't multiple input at the same time. Basically what Peter did, was use a script that translates every fingerdown on the screen into a mouseclick. But...
4 June, Harry van der Veen
Today Peter disassembled a TFT monitor to see if it was suitable for a new multitouch project, where we use a TFT to display the image, instead of a beamer with a projection screen. The Viewsonic va903b was not suitable, because the FFC cable was not long enough. Theoretically it could have been...
4 June, Harry van der Veen
I came across an interesting Apple touch patent, while browsing the MacNN website.
3 June, Harry van der Veen
Here are a couple of Microsoft Surface video's I uploaded to my youtube.
30 May, Harry van der Veen
Peter playing starcraft on our multitouch display.
30 May, Harry van der Veen
I came a cross a link on the NUIgroup community forum, about a product called Microsoft Surface. It seems that Microsoft is, after doing intensive research on Touchlight, also getting into the game that's called multitouch.

