Jeff Han’s multi-touch interface – new demo video
Multi-touch interfaces are so hot right now. While portable touch screens are being used everywhere from Windows Mobile phones to the Nintendo DS, not much has been done to take them into the home. Also, the fact that traditional touchscreens can only measure a single simultaneous click, while not too much of a limitation up to now, does restrict certain operations and more complex interactions.
Cue Jeff Han’s multitouch system that I blogged about a while ago. You can now watch a very convincing video of Jeff demonstrating the device. The talk was part of TED Talks, and features a extremely excited Han running through a number of applications for the interface, including NASA World Wind, a lava lamp simulation and something that looks exactly like Takeo Igarashi’s “As-Rigid-As-Possible Curve Editing”.
Other TED talkers include Nicholas Negroponte, and Al Gore talking about Manbearpig.
via Pixelsumo.
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handcircus » Blog Archive » Controlling Google Earth with the Wii Remote on December 15th, 2006
[...] Pretty much what it says on the tin. Reminds me a lot of the Jeff Han demo using Nasa World Wind. Plugging together GlovePie (drivers for the Wiimote on windows) with Custom drivers written by J Coulston, its a nice example of the kind of possibilities that are out there for those wanting to get there hands dirty with mashups like these, or their own creations from scratch. Its a shame that its not Analogue yet – its just mapped to keypresses for the meantime, and it doesnt use the pointer system, just tilt control. The sweet-spot for me would be pointing at the earth and dragging it to spin, much like a globe, leaning forwards and back to tilt the earth. [...]
Catching up with the Future at Ryan Morrison & MacMillan Ltd. on August 5th, 2006
[...] Our friend Simon Oliver draws our attention to footage from the recent TED conference of Jeff Han’s multi-touch interface that allows fine-tuned gestural interaction with information. Imagine the “Majority Report” interface, and you’re close to understanding what this is about. Watch the video, and you’ll understand properly. [...]