Multi-Touch
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leppie wrote:
Now imagine typing on a virtual keyboard, and the gloves giving you feedback
Last time I checked, which is right now, my keyboard gave me feedback. ;)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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The new Mac notebooks use multi-touch on their touchpads for various on-screen manipulations. The 2 finger scroll is nice and easy to remember but IMO most of the others are kind of arcane. Time will tell if it really "does" much. Rumor is that Apple may introduce a multi-touch tablet in the not too distant future. Microsoft showed us Surface displays a while back that certainly look cool but appear to be a niche market at best. Misters Ballmer and Gates showed a bit of multi-touch in Windows 7 the other day. Here is my question: Forgetting the applications you write and forgetting your users - does multi-touch offer anything to developers themselves. Can any of you fathom where it might be helpful to you in your daily work? Personally, I'm not seeing where it does much. Secondary question: Does multitouch really offer anything to the millions of home users who surf the web, write letters, print birthday cards, etc...
All of our products use touch screens. I can't imagine how multi-touch would help, considering some of the issues we've had with single touch. Our environment might be on the fringe, however. Our touch screen is a control panel for a machine. Most operations are via buttons. Our most complicated operation is a slider-like control that sets a numerical quantity.
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regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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The new Mac notebooks use multi-touch on their touchpads for various on-screen manipulations. The 2 finger scroll is nice and easy to remember but IMO most of the others are kind of arcane. Time will tell if it really "does" much. Rumor is that Apple may introduce a multi-touch tablet in the not too distant future. Microsoft showed us Surface displays a while back that certainly look cool but appear to be a niche market at best. Misters Ballmer and Gates showed a bit of multi-touch in Windows 7 the other day. Here is my question: Forgetting the applications you write and forgetting your users - does multi-touch offer anything to developers themselves. Can any of you fathom where it might be helpful to you in your daily work? Personally, I'm not seeing where it does much. Secondary question: Does multitouch really offer anything to the millions of home users who surf the web, write letters, print birthday cards, etc...
Won't do anything for me - I just checked and my regular screen position is about 6" from the end of my outstretched fingers... Not sure if this means I have bad eysight or short arms though :)
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Its not the things you fear that come to get you but all the things that you don't expect
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The new Mac notebooks use multi-touch on their touchpads for various on-screen manipulations. The 2 finger scroll is nice and easy to remember but IMO most of the others are kind of arcane. Time will tell if it really "does" much. Rumor is that Apple may introduce a multi-touch tablet in the not too distant future. Microsoft showed us Surface displays a while back that certainly look cool but appear to be a niche market at best. Misters Ballmer and Gates showed a bit of multi-touch in Windows 7 the other day. Here is my question: Forgetting the applications you write and forgetting your users - does multi-touch offer anything to developers themselves. Can any of you fathom where it might be helpful to you in your daily work? Personally, I'm not seeing where it does much. Secondary question: Does multitouch really offer anything to the millions of home users who surf the web, write letters, print birthday cards, etc...
My (biased) opinion is that we have nothing to loose by just trying them out. I got myy hands on some docs on the internet on how to make one (the same tech used by the Jeff Hahn himself: the idea M$ copied). The only really expensive piece of hardware is the projector, but other than that all you need is a (dopted) webcam, perspex, IR LEDs and a powersource (and some programming skill). All I need now is the perspex, but I have no idea where to get it :). This is no doubt begging a CP article once I get it right!!!
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My (biased) opinion is that we have nothing to loose by just trying them out. I got myy hands on some docs on the internet on how to make one (the same tech used by the Jeff Hahn himself: the idea M$ copied). The only really expensive piece of hardware is the projector, but other than that all you need is a (dopted) webcam, perspex, IR LEDs and a powersource (and some programming skill). All I need now is the perspex, but I have no idea where to get it :). This is no doubt begging a CP article once I get it right!!!
For those who are interested here is a description on how it works[^] and a doc on how to make one[^] (not my original doc, can't find it).