Tag Archives: Next Window

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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Ideum’s NUI Table

March 18, 2009 – 6:53 AM

Among the hardware providers we researched during the past year was Ideum and their mt2 table product. Ideum’s hardware product is a fairly straightforward enclosure, not all that disimilar to Microsoft’s Surface product.

Unlike Microsoft’s solution, however, the mt2 is based around a third-party software suite from NUI, a software company in Sweden that specializes in [...]

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Next Window’s Multitouch Overlay

March 12, 2009 – 9:51 PM

Next Window’s overlay or integrated multitouch solution rests on top of an LCD display and provides a touch interface. This product is not true multitouch product (e.g. 50 simultaneous touches) but does offer a user 2 points of interaction. This is ok if you are designing an experience for a single user, but obviously does [...]

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