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View topic - DIY multitouch plans & libs ! Regarding Microsoft's 'Surface', it's exciting but ... Quote: With a 30-inch screen, Surface will initially sell for between $5,000 and $10,000 (£2,525-£5,050). That's a bit expensive for me. I'm sure the price will drop in a few years at which point I will be (literally) all over it. The DIY option would be cheaper, the things you need are 1: a projector 2: a computer 3: a camera with a WDM driver 4: some infra red lighting (so it's out of the spectral range of the lightshow) 5: the table I guess cost depends to a large degree on whether you have a few items already. the camera they use is this one basically an OEM webcam / spycam device like I might buy from Maplin (UK) but why not get an all in one solution, camera and IR lights all in one. I'm guessing that the total (DIY) cost including the table would be £800 to £1000, but as the major cost is the projector if you already have one, then that would drop.

Educação Cerebral | A Saúde do Cérebro em Primeiro Lugar Implementations TUIO hardware support In order to support the further development of the TUIO platform, we are looking for hardware donations of various hardware: iOS and Android tablets, Touchscreen hardware, Windows 7 Multitouch Notebooks, Netbooks and Tablets, MS Surface, Samsung SUR40, Magic Trackpad or any other devices to evaluate their existing or potential TUIO support. Please get in touch with martin_at_tuio_dot_org for further information! TUIO Tracker Implementations TUIO Server Reference Implementations C++: TUIO_CPP.zip (source, all platforms) TUIO output Bridges Touch2Tuio: forwards native Windows 7 touch messages to TUIO clients mtdev2tuio: converts Linux touch events from libmtdev to TUIO 1.1 TouchToTuio: N-Trig panel TUIO driver (e.g. TUIO input Bridges Multi-Touch Vista Windows HID driver, input management layer with a TUIO input provider. TUIO Simulators TUIO Gateways

The 10 Craziest Kinect Hacks Let's be honest: when it comes to serious gaming, Kinect has been a little bit of a let down so far, hasn't it? For all the occasional moments of magic when the motion-sensing technology properly works and you really are the controller, there's still far too many annoying, clumsy parts when it becomes clear that what you really need is an actual controller. That said, Kinect's capabilities are always evolving and you can bet that, when the next Xbox comes, we will be a further step closer towards the 'Minority Report' dream Microsoft promised us at such staggering expense. If Kinect has so far failed to excite hardcore gamers, though, it's had hardcore hackers stuttering with socially-awkward enthusiasm at the potential beyond Xbox. 18 months of tinkering by mad scientists reached its apotheosis this week with the news that Kinect is being sent into outer space to control satellites. Anyway, Kinventors: we salute you – and your barmiest creations. Kinect Guitar Kinect Shopping Trolley

Johannes Luderschmidt’s Blog » Blog Archive » The Multi-Touch Table Virttable [Update] The second multi-touch table, that I have built is called The Virttable, which stands for Versatile Illumination Research Touch Table. This table is the property of the department for Design, Computer Science and Media (DCSM) of the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences, which provided me with the money for the components of the Virttable. (Actually, we had student fees for a short time in Hessen/Germany. From a part of these student fees the Virttable has been built. Thank you, dear students!!! There’s no cent of public money in the Virttable.) The computer that I have used in the Virttable is my Mac Mini. The Virttable (Versatile Illumination Touch Table) The main goals for the Virttable have been… The first point has been achieved: The whole setup did cost around 2000 Euro. The second point has been achieved as well: The Virttable in the closet The third point has been enabled by the small form factor of the Virttable: the Virttable is 70 cm high, 74 cm wide and 54 cm deep. Related

ProjectKinectMagicMirror Contact person(s) : Prof. Nassir Navab, Ph.D. Pascal Fallavollita and M.Sc. Ma MengKeywords: Medical Augmented Reality, 3D Information Presentation, 3D Interaction Abstract The Microsoft Kinect provides a color and a depth image. Videos Location Visit our lab at Klinikum Innenstadt. internal project page Please contact for available student projects within this research project.

Raspberry Pi Magic Mirror | Raspberry Pi Here’s a somewhat creepy mirror with a disembodied (French) voice, which recognises the person looking into it and responds accordingly. This lovely hack from Pierre Raufast is the sort of OpenCV application that we hope to see much more of when the camera board goes up for sale (and the Pi camera would be a great solution here, with a much higher framerate). Snow White’s Mum has nothing on Pierre. I mailed Pierre, the man in front of the mirror, as soon as I spotted this on YouTube last week, asking if he had any documentation. Now, I must cook to friends tonight (life is not only with computers, sometimes human-interactions are required) :( I’ll update this post when those final steps are in place. Thanks so much for all your work on this, Pierre; it’s technologically interesting, and we thought it was hilariously funny too.