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posted by Satri on Thursday January 17, @06:45PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
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A colleague sent me a CNET article about Hitachi's new StarBoard interactive surface showcasing Google Earth. Slashdot also discusses the technology. This type of technology has been discussed a few times in the past, specifically the ESRI's TouchTable, Microsoft's Surface and others working with NASA World Wind. From the article: "The surface itself is simply a rigid board. At the top there are two cameras that track the movement of your hands. These work independently of each other, so the device is essentially multi-touch. What amazed us is how easy to use the whole system was. It took no real instruction to get us playing with it. Using Google Earth with it was a treat. There was also a photo app, which was clearly just there to illustrate the multi-touch capabilities of the system." Update: 01/22 16:24 GMT by S : Slowly catching up geonews, closely related is Google's touchEarth Summer of Code project (link includes video) which sends touchlib/OpenTouch finger gesture events to the TUIO protocol. There's also the LG-Philips 52-inch multi-touch screen worth a mention.

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