Monthly Archives: March 2009

Windows 7 Multitouch

March 30, 2009 – 12:52 AM

As many of you have surely heard, Microsoft’s new operating system, scheduled to replace Vista in 2010, is called Windows 7. Most interestingly to us, it offers multitouch capabilities built into the OS. This is very exciting news to interactive agencies like Operand who have been working in the single touch world for years using [...]

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Perceptive Pixel Multitouch

March 28, 2009 – 3:27 AM

This month we’ve been posting a lot about multitouch table technologies and providers. No discussion of multitouch computing would really be complete without mentioning the work of Jeff Han. A computer science professor at NYU, Han has been a leading proponent of multitouch computing for years. Back in February 2006, he gave a groundbreaking demo [...]

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NYC Visitor Center Touch Table Experience

March 25, 2009 – 10:28 PM

Anyone who lives in New York City (as I do) cannot have failed to notice that the city has been pushing a fairly extensive and well executed campaign to bolster tourism. A lot of this publicity has been centered around a serious of “Ask The Locals” advertisements and the “NYCgo” branding, with its nicely executed [...]

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Microsoft’s Surface Multitouch Table

March 25, 2009 – 2:50 PM

We have all heard of Microsoft’s Surface system. It was released back in July 2008 to commercial partners as a new form of touch computing for public environments. There has been a lot of interest about this product over that last 10 months – clients and partners are asking us about it’s functionality, costs, specifications, [...]

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The MultiTouch Cell

March 20, 2009 – 12:00 PM

I came across this company during our research into multitouch displays. Their approach to scalability and use of LCD displays vs. projection is intriguing. We have not used this provider but their technology seems to have some advantages over existing projection-based IR systems. For starters they state that their LCD displays can support 1920×1080 (true [...]

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