An interesting input technology and a Croquet like environment

Markus Gaelli gaelli at emergent.de
Wed Mar 8 15:51:39 UTC 2006


On Feb 21, 2006, at 10:28 AM, stéphane ducasse wrote:

> soon I hope we will get the same screens as the one in minority  
> report :)
> Thanks for the links.

Just read about the monitor:

"The drafting table style implementation shown here measures 36"x27",  
is rear-projected, and has a sensing resolution of better than 0.1"  
at 50Hz. Stroke event information is sent to applications using the  
lightweight OSC protocol over UDP."

Hey, we have an OSC-Client and Server for Squeak! :-) So it shouldn't  
be too hard to connect to that one...

http://www.opensoundcontrol.org/node/74

Cheers,

Markus


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> On 21 févr. 06, at 08:26, Tansel Ersavas wrote:
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>> For those who may be interested
>>
>> This is an interesting multi-touch capable screen demo. Great for  
>> gestures, etc. Also would be interesting to see how such an idea  
>> could be utilized in Croquet.
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-y3ZNaCqs
>>
>> Another cool thing that could be utilized as Croquet input is the  
>> SpacePad. There are a few other things in the market but this  
>> seems to be a reasonable system for experimentation. I am  
>> currently assisting a project where motion capture is a big part  
>> so have been looking into many mo-cap systems. Most of them are  
>> prohibitively expensive. This is not a mo-cap system but can be  
>> used as a VR input system.
>>
>> http://www.ascension-tech.com/products/spacepad.php
>> Also an interesting group of 3D dwellers are growing in a virtual  
>> environment called second life. I am sure Croquet guys are aware  
>> but just in case anyone is missing it is an environment worth  
>> checking out.
>>
>> http://www.secondlife.com
>>
>>
>> Tansel
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