Our CTO David Brebner has a new project going into the Fingertapps Engineer Lab. He's building a 3m x 2m (approx) multi-touch wall surface that will be used for experimentation, development projects and test. We've created cool solutions using Fingertapps in this type of format for clients all around the world
and figured it was about time the shoemakers children got some shoes of their own!
The project is a joint initiative between Fingertapps / Unlimited Realities and Project Space and so will be available to others down this end of the planet wanting to experiment with physical-meets-software style projects.
In terms of technology, we'll be using a projector for the image along with some DIY touch tracking (for now). We'll have the Fingertapps framework available and so projects will be able to use Adobe(TM) Flash(TM) and Fingertapps together via our Fingertapps SDK to create true multi-touch, multi-user interactions using off-the-shelf components.
We've also got plans for pulling in other types of gestural input (David coverts a z-depth camera!) and we'll be looking at how we can use the surface as a remote collaboration platform...
We'll track the build and hopefully get some videos up soon of Fingertapps in action on the large format.