Multitouch/Flash
For a long time I have been a fan and strong believer of Multitouch devices. As a matter of fact, it was the TED conference with Jeff Han’s presentation that got me going on that. This Wednesday, I met with three extraordinary people from the scene. Harry van der Veen and Pradeep George from the Natural User Interface Europe AB and Georg Kaindl, MT interaction designer from the Technical University of Vienna. We had very fruitful discussions on how to enable Flash developers to easily create innovative applications for MT. We agreed that what MT needs to really get going are the above mentioned innovative applications. This includes more then zooming into pictures and finger painting. Once there is an application companies can make real use of, MT will become popular and available to the mass market.
Interested Flash developers: please check out the Georg’s touché framework and join the NUI Group now. I’m looking for and will start promoting MT Flash based apps that go beyond what we there is today.
I encourage all Flash developers out there to get familiar with this new kind of devices, as it will heavily influence the market in the upcoming years. A quick quote from our conversations: “When our children will walk up to a display, they will touch it and expect to do something.”
Look forward to more efforts in this direction.
November 14, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Hi Alex,
Thank you again for the invitation to Adobe, it was indeed very interesting to talk with George, you and other people inside Adobe about the potential of multi-touch for Adobe, NUI and the community.
There is more to come…..
Harry
November 16, 2008 at 6:53 pm
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November 18, 2008 at 8:34 am
Wow really great that more and more people are picking up on these technologies.
Alex make sure you check out our Lux AS3 Preview… its truly amazing what Flash allows designers and developers to create.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOckVTgWBr4
It will be our communities foundation for development and deployment… really trying to streamline and make it easy to get started. (Cant wait to try it with Thermo)
Thanks for the kind words and look forward to more
November 18, 2008 at 1:03 pm
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November 20, 2008 at 12:40 pm
wow, cool. i’m currently writing my master’s thesis at the University of Applied Sciences about that stuff.
i’ve developed a multi-touch visualization for the police of the state of Hesse, Germany based on the NUI Group stuff, Flash and Flex. i will write a post about that on my blog shortly: http://johannesluderschmidt.de/
i’m also engaged in the discussions on nuigroup.com.
additionally, i had a collaboration project going on with a designer from the Central St. Martin’s College of Arts in London: The Digital Volvelles: http://digitalvolvelles.wordpress.com/
i’m happy that adobe is embracing multi-touch!
i’ve spread the word about multi-touch at my University and another Bachelor student is currently programming a tangible interface for the police visualization. so, things are starting to develop
January 15, 2009 at 4:59 pm
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