This blog is my main on-line filing cabinet, open to the world. It focuses on interactive multimedia technology that supports collaboration, communication, creativity, and learning. Topics include multi-touch, touch and gesture interaction, HCI, UX, ID, IA, NUI (natural user interfaces/ natural user interaction), interactive displays/surfaces, mobile technologies, 3D, universal usability/accessibility, and interactive multimedia content in a 2.0/3.0 world.
If you follow this blog, you know I like to share what people are doing with multi-touch and related natural user interfaces/interaction. In this post, I'd like to share an article about two students who decided to build and market a multi-touch table- the article below explains the story in-depth, and video shows the nuts and bolts.
According to the above article, Aaron Bitler and Brady Simpson they were inspired by CNN's Magic Wall during the 2008 election. Bitler and Simpson learned more about natural user interface/interaction during a presentation in a business class that featured a video about the Microsoft Surface table and natural user interface technologies. They formed a company, 3M8, to build and market mutli-touch display/tables.
From what I can tell, it looks like Bitler and Simpson relied on the DYI information and support from the NUI-group website to carry out their ideas. Bitler and Simpson met with representatives of 22Miles, a company located in San Jose that provides interactive solutions, including multi-touch, for web, mobile, and touch screen implementations.
I'll post more about 22Miles in an upcoming post.
Until then, take a look at 22Miles' promo video, featuring a huge 3D interactive multi-touch heart:
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