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I came a cross a link on the NUIgroup community forum, about a product called Microsoft Surface. It seems that Microsoft is, after doing intensive research on Touchlight, also getting into the game that's called multitouch.

Today there was an exhibition featuring 3 main projects of the Lulea Technical University at Skelleftea. One of them was our multi-touch project. A couple of news papers and photographers dropped by to note some info and take some pictures. I pretended to be one of the photographers, so no chance...

Today I attended the presentations of my four Swedish fellow students.

I came across a nice trailer of the game Tom Clancy's Endwar, where they use a multitouch interface for command and control. Check out the movie here:

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Today we received a sample of Rosco grey rear projection screen, which one of my project mates from Holland sent me (thanks Martin). We wanted to test it, because the plastic white paper material we used as a projection screen didn't block any ambient infrared light and we knew Rosco did. But we...

Here are some pictures of our painted box.

Falcon4ever of NUIgroup, created a small demo application called tDesk. tDesk is an experimental tool running on Windows XP, which enables users with an FTIR multitouch screen to move and resize (multiple) applications with their bare hands.

What annoys me sometimes, yeah I'm kinda shortminded, is that when you want to browse through a certain site, that you explicity have to go to the location of the "next" button or click on a number on the button of the page, like 1 2 3 4 5 (where as every number is a different page) But what if you...

2 fans in one of the air tunnel hoods, that will be placed close to the beamer.

At the NHL in Holland where I study I heard teachers are often frustrated because 20 times a day students and other people come into the room, to disturb them and take them out of their concentration, to ask if they have seen a certain person, that day, or if they know where that certain person may...

The door is attached to the back of the box, so it can be easily opened for displaying purposes.

Yesterday we attached the webcam to our box. Afterwards we fine tuned the angle of the beamer and the mirror. We did a couple of quick application tests (photo app & smoke). The dimensions of our screen are not optimal because the ratio is not 4:3, but we will adjust this with software.

The silicone rubber sheets we prepared are made out of 2 fluids that you combine and then they cure over time. The fluids come from a company named Wacker Chemie AG. Their website is located here: http://www.wacker.com

So this morning we pulled our screen from the oven ;), to further assemble it.

So Tuesday we made 2 test samples of silicone rubber sheets, that worked very well. Therefor we made another one for our 60*60 prototype.

I'm releasing an alpha version of my multi-touch display how-to guide.

Today Peter and I have been creating 2 silicone rubber test sheets. 1 sheet is 1 mm thick and the other one is 2 mm thick. So we can test which thickness is better. This sheet will be placed between a projection screen and the acrylic to improve the coupling between the two.

Yesterday Peter and I worked in the metal lab on finishing the mechanism that'll hold the beamer inside the box. It's finished now and should only be attached inside the box now.

I ran into this video on youtube, from Falcon4ever , one of my Dutch homies from the NUIgroup community, check out his video below.

Monday 30th of April, I met the four students and the project supervisor, I'm working with. Niklas Brolin and Michael Thörnlund, are both working on the gesture recognition library. Niklas is purely concentrating on the gesture recognition itself, whereas Michael is working on the connection with...