Never heard the term Multi Touch before? Well we are sure that in the time ahead it will become as common and familiar to you as your mouse with Point and Click, or USB with Plug and Play.
Essentially multi touch is the ability to use 3 or more touch points simulataneously on a screen, and since we have 5 fingers on each hand Multi Touch really comes into its own when all 10 fingers can be used simultaneously. The interesting point here is that when you have say 5 people interacting with content using 2 fingers each, some dynamic interactivity begins to happen changing the way we inter-relate, engage with one another, how we access and manipulate our content and screen.
The following presentation by Jeff Han (Feb 2006) captures some of the excitement coming to a table, wall or screen near you. Jeff Han is research scientist for NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and the inventor of a MINORITY REPORT STYLE “interface-free” touch-driven computer screen (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration 9.3min
TED Talk Demonstration at Monterey
BLUE OCEAN SCREENS in Dubai
Read about the stunning 20 x 3 ft multi touch wall using our Blue Ocean screens that was implemeted in Dubai last year for the Property Expo. Contact ICE AV for your Blue Ocean screen requirements. sales@iceav.co.nz
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