We were at Las Vegas, CES 2010 recently to showcase our stuff with our sister company nLighten. You will see in the video our latest shell launcher that is able to load apps developed in Flash, WPF and Surface SDK. The shell is coupled with a multitouch server platform that is running as a service. It detects the nature of the device, TUIO or WM_TOUCH, and uses the appropriate protocol respectively. We’ve also added a generic quit gesture that allows users to quit the app if it is developed by a third party who did not add a quit button to their application.
Here are the videos of the Kinetic OOH 2009 as promised! The first video are snippets from the exhibition itself. For a more detailed look at the applications which we developed for the show, please watch the second video below. Enjoy!
We’ve been busy for the whole month of June, thus the lack of updates to this blog. We built another 80″ MT wall for an AMG Mercedes car launch in Beijing and a 100″ wall for a Kinetic “Out of Home” event in Shanghai and Beijing. So lots of travelling and sleepless nights. But we promise to post more details soon, hopefully when I get down to editing the videos and have them posted asap. However, here are some pics from both events. Hope you like them.
80″ MT Wall
AMG Mercedes Car Launch Event at Badaling in Beijing
100″ MT Wall
Kinetic “Out of Home” 2009 Event in Shanghai & Beijing
As promised, here is the video and photos of our latest build. It’s an 80″ LLP Wall which we built 2 days before the show. In this build, we used the latest tbeta (Community Core Vision by Seth Sandler), which features sending TUIO directly to Flash via TCP, a new calibration technique, more control on blob detection sizes and a cool movement threshold to prevent those “jittery” moments. We have also added in our own ofAddon for the FireflyMV into tbeta that supports 30FPS at 640×480. and The LOUIS XIII MT App was done by FlipScript Interactive.
The other apps that ran during our own demo sessions were:
MediaApp by Taha
Fluid Solver by Memo
Finally, here is the long overdue video of a 60” wall we made for our school’s new library in January 2009. It’s basically an LLP wall and we added a camera at the front to perform motion-based interaction as well. You might notice that the wall is too high! That’s coz the frame constructors had no ergonomic sense and it was too late to do anything about it.
Credit goes to:
1) Seth Sandler for writing tbeta
2) taha for his Nasa WorldWind Plugin and Media App
3) memo for his super cool FluidSolver
4) jimihertz for his processing sketches
5) laurent for his as3 simpledesktop
6) ralphdas for rushing out the Newswell app for us
7) Flipscript for the Chinese News app
We’ve just completed an 80″ MT Wall setup for LOUIS XIII who was the main sponsor for the China (Shanghai) International Boat Show 2009, 16th to 19th April. It’s an LLP setup (which we built from scratch, 2 days before the show) running a media app showcasing photos and videos. The MT app was done by FlipScript. Here’s a teaser pic for you and hopefully, we’ll post more setup details and videos soon.
Here’s a video of me messing around with the new TUIO addon for OF. Trying to write a simple mouse driver for the tbeta as a separate program where mouseTUIO should receive TUIO messages from tbeta. In this video, you’ll see me using an ipod touch as the input device, which is running OSCemote to send out OSC messages. Anyway, it’s just proof-of-concept, so just enjoy the video… And of course, credit goes to moka from the OF forum for writing the TUIO addon. Sorry for the poor video quality……
Screen Size: 60” (2 Transparent Glass with Rosco Grey “sandwiched” in between)
Table height: 0.9m
Camera: Firefly MV with 2.8mm lens
Projector: BenQ MP771 (Extremely Short Throw: 74’’ @ 1m)
Bandpass Filter: Normal IR Filter that I bought from a photography shop
Lasers: Four 20mW IR 980nm with line generating lens
