TouchSmarter: Touch Screen Gadgets

In this educational NUIversity® video by Natural User Interface Technologies AB, Snowflake Suite developer for the Adobe Flash platform, Ralph Das, explains the usage of Snowflake Suites Flash Connection Component, allowing Flash developers to make a connection between their multi-touch Flash applications and Snowflake Suite with no line of code and simply make a connection with a drag and drop.

This project is still in alpha phase and a download will become available with the next release of Snowflake Suite 1.7 for the NextWindow platform and camera based multi-touch solutions.

Two additional NUIversity® videos covering the Interactable component and Toucharray, working with Adobe Flash and Snowflake Suite, will be following.

NUIversity is a registered trademark of Natural User Interface Technologies AB.

Touchtech and Natural User Interface partner on project for Sydsvenskan

Gothenburg based Touchtech AB and Skelleftea headquartered Natural User Interface Technologies AB (NUITech), joined forces by collaborating on a project for Sydsvenskan, a leading Swedish news paper.

Touchtech approached NUITech, because of its interest to utilize NUITech’s award winning multi-touch software product Snowflake Suite, on a project for Sydsvenskan delivered by Touchtech and Crowd, for the event Malmöfestivalen, which took place from 14/8 to 21/8 in Malmö…..

Find the full press release on the Natural User Interface website: http://www.natural-ui.com/aboutnui/news2009.html

See in the video below, the application developed by Touchtech for Sydsvenskan.

Natural User Interface Technologies AB extends its special offer to get a FREE iPod Touch.

In addition to the offer of receiving a FREE iPod Touch, when purchasing 2 Snowflake Suite licenses for the NextWindow platform, we have extended this offer.

You will also receive a FREE iPod Touch when purchasing 1 Snowflake Suite license for rear camera based solutions.

FREE Ipod Touch

Currently, Natural User Interface Technologies AB has a special offer, namely; order 2 Snowflake Suite licenses for the NextWindow platform and you will receive 3 months of upgrades and an Ipod Touch for FREE.

Request your quotation and send inquiries here.

You can find more information on Snowflake Suite, on the NUITech website here.

Download and test a free evaluation version of Snowflake Suite for the NextWindow platform, before you decide to place your order.

Natural User Interface Technologies AB’s OEM partner Ideum launched their new and improved MT-50 multi-touch table.

Ideum integrates NUITech’s multi-touch software product Snowflake Suite, on their MT-50 multi-touch tables.

The MT-50 Table, bundled with GestureWorks and NUITech Snowflake software is a powerful development platform for creating the next generation of computer-based interactive exhibits.

Download the MT-50 Table Specifications (Updated: 8-11-09) (837kb), here: http://www.ideum.com/downloadables/MT50_Spec_8-11-09.pdf

Download the Ideum press release here: http://www.ideum.com/downloadables/mt-press-release-8-20-09.pdf

Snowflake Suite is commercially available for rear camera based solutions and NextWindow. A free trial version of Snowflake Suite for the NextWindow can be downloaded from the NUITech website, located at www.natural-ui.com.

Snowflake will also become available for other multi-touch hardware technology platforms, like N-trig and others.

Natural User Interface’s UK based partner Arcstream AV opened a new Youtube channel to showcase videos of their multi-touch iNTERAX technology installations.

Arcstream specializes in delivering standard and customized iNTERAX branded multi-touch installations that come pre installed with NUITech’s Stevie Award recognized Snowflake Suite multi-touch software product.

Arcsteam, with its main focus on the exhibition, trade shows and entertainment industry (hotels, clubs and bars) is the right company in the UK, to talk to in regards to complete interactive multi-touch solutions.

The video below shows a project in a London night club for Perrier.

Below, Snowflake Suite running on a fully customized large sized gorgeous looking iNTERAX multi-touch table/bar.

The below video shows 3 large scale 80″ interactive multi-touch walls for a large tradeshow in the UK.

Just shot a quick video, earlier today, of the Media Viewer running inside Snowflake Suite 1.6 with its integrated and optimized vision tracking module Touch Core, at approximately 60 FPS.

Multi-touch software product Snowflake Suite 1.6, is available for rear camera based solutions and the NextWindow platform.

A free evaluation download of Snowflake for the NextWindow platforms is available at www.natural-ui.com

11 August 2009

Natural User Interface releases major Snowflake Suite upgrade

Natural User Interface Technologies AB (NUITech) has released a major upgrade for its award recognized multi-touch software product Snowflake Suite.

The latest version 1.6, is the most significant upgrade to Snowflake Suite, since its introduction as one of the first multi-touch software products in the market.

The major changes include amongst others a total revamp of the calibration module for rear camera based solutions, a complete new multi-touch puzzle application, code optimizations allowing for doubled speed performance, support for a multitude of cameras and multiple NextWindow screens.

Furthermore, a solution is integrated for rear camera based solutions, to under catch uneven lighting for DI (Diffused Illumination) setups.

Also the delivered API allows third party companies to connect their own developed multi-touch applications to Snowflake’s Touch Core vision tracking software and allows the Snowflake Suite applications to run on other hardware technology platforms and vision tracking software.

In addition to the general improvements and fixes, the new upgrade comes with a new look and feel.

Snowflake Suite is available for rear camera based multi-touch solutions (walls, tables and kiosks) as well as NextWindow. The NextWindow solution allow the users to run the multi-touch applications on the HP TouchSmart IQ500, IQ770, IQ800 series and Dell Studio One 19 PC. Shortly, Snowflake will be introduced to the N-trig platform making it accessible to the HP TouchSmart TX2 and Dell Latitude XT and XT2.

An evaluation download is made available for the NextWindow platform and can be found on the NUITech website.

Snowflake is worlwide on all continents being used in a wide variety of industries covering Public Spaces, Education, Entertainment, Exhibition/Events, Military, Real Estate, Museums, Retail -stores and shopping windows, Interactive advertisement and Digital signage.

Natural User Interface’s software product Snowflake Suite, which received a Stevie Awards finalist recognition for Best New Product or Service of the Year 2009 - Media & Entertainment, is available to end clients, software developers, VAR’s and OEM’s. The software operates on a wide variety of hardware technology platforms like rear camera based solutions, IR overlay systems, capacitive, resistive and other touch technologies for small hand held mobile devices and larger scale interactive displays.

Several Flash video tutorials and code examples will be made available shortly, explaining how to use Adobe’s Flash and Action script together with Snowflake.

Snowflake Suite’s SDK will be available by the end of the year enabling end-users to develop their own multi-touch applications.

NUITech’s CEO Harry van der Veen commented on the major new release of snowflake, “We are proud of the Snowflake Suite 1.6 release. It is better, faster and easier to use. As usual we have worked very closely together with our clients and partners to improve the software, by integrating their feedback. As we seeit, listening to your clients and partners is trivial to the success of your product and your company. One of the strong assets of the software is that the content is very open (not open source!), meaning that the end user or the partner can easily change the content himself, therefore being more time and cost efficient. Users can replace the standard by NUITech provided images, videos, 3d models, backgrounds and logo’s, with their own. So they basically decide their own look and feel or theme, making the software really unique in that way. This allows each company to have their own branded multi-touch software solution, so it is very flexible, as it is customizable.”

Terry Gibbs, Business Development Manager of UK based Arcstream, one of NUITech’s OEM partners and alpha tester of the pre release of 1.6 commented: “We have been partnering with NUITech and using Snowflake for nine months now and it gets better with each release. This latest version is a big leap forward, improving the set-up process with excellent accuracy and much faster operation. This all helps to make our touch tables a joy to use and meet our customers expectations of how a natural user interface should intuitively work. ”

About Natural User Interface
Natural User Interface Technologies AB is a Swedish innovative emerging technology company specializing in delivering commercially available advanced multi-touch software, hardware and service solutions, to a wide variety of industries across the globe, from corporate organizations to governmental institutes. Natural User Interface is a privately funded, fast growing corporation, supported by a venture capitalist, with its headquarter and Innovation center in Skelleftea (Sweden), additional Software Development operations in Poland and an office in Singapore.

Natural User Interface’s vision is to change the way people interact with computers, through the mission of making the interface between users and technology more natural. For more information, see http://www.natural-ui.com

Natural User Interface Technologies AB (NUITech) has released Snowflake Suite 1.6 for NextWindow and rear camera based multi-touch solutions.

Newly added:
+ Complete new multi-touch puzzle application
+ Replaced Camera orientation, Barrel distortion (checkerboard), and Corner input mapping steps with a point-to-point calibration in TouchCore calibration
+ True multi camera support (3, 4 and more cameras)
+ Flash components and instruction videos
+ Multiple NextWindow screens support (connect unlimited number of NextWindow screens together)
+ License machine info printer
+ Flash LocalConnection and added it to NextWindowOSC
+ Screensaver with option to close applications
+ Light evening (to undercatch uneven light with DI setups) (making masking unnecessary)
+ Settable osc output framerate for Touch Core
+ Camera Fps settable in calibration
+ New input markers
+ F1 Version numbering
+ F2 Rendering fps counter
+ Camera/tracker fps counter
+ Global input mapping (when cropping projected image)
+ Open PDF in Adobe reader functionality implementation
+ Error message when a user tries to enter calibration mode without TouchCore having found any cameras

Optimized:
+ General interaction design of the calibration module
+ Rendertextures saving
+ Graphics for the calibration module
+ General graphics
+ Manuals
+ Camera crop
+ Filters to work with light evening
+ Tracker optimization (60 fps)
+ Special Effects applications
+ Installer procedure

Fixed:
+ Transferring IDs between cameras when finger moves between cameras
+ Minor license dialog issue
+ Support PT Grey Dragonfly camera
+ Several issues with crashes caused by the CMU camera interface
+ Problem with video audio being too low
+ Video support in Flow
+ Stretching issues in 3D Viewer
+ Overlap dual camera transferring finger ID issue

Below a summary of the Natural User Interface Technologies AB (NUITech) (formerly known as Natural User Interface Europe AB) Twitter updates

You can find NUITech’s Twitter at www.twitter.com/multitouch where you can keep track of operational updates from NUITech related to multitouch technology.

Just saw the pre release of Snowflake Suite 1.6 and the vision tracking has become ridiculously fast, looking forward to send it out soon

Grabbing my suitcase for a trip to London to meet one of NUITech’s close partners

Just received the invitation for the gala dinner for the Stevie Awards, to receive our recognition for Snowflake Suite

Natural User Interface Europe AB introduces new branding, after venture capital injection

Working on an extremely fast solution for a connection between Flash applications and Snowflake Suite

Just finished up a project for a partner in Thailand

Natural User Interface assists the Public Utilities Board (PUB) in Singapore, pics and news item online http://www.multitouch.nl/

Our talented colleague Sharath Patali from India, that will be joining us here in Sweden shortly, passed his GSOC midterm evaluations

Sent out Snowflake Suite 1.6 Alpha to a small group of close partners

Natural User Interface Europe AB honored in sixth Annual International Business Awards

Just received the official certificate of the European trademark for “Natural User Interface” in addition to the Swedish trademark

Snowflake Suite now also supports Windows 7 for Nextwindow

Natural User Interface serves Singapore Changi Airport with multitouch technology, see pics and news item @ www.multitouch.nl

Saw Snowflake Suite running today with 4 cameras on our vision tracking software, looks nice.

Snowflake Suite with advanced Nextwindow support for multiple screens, see the videos at http://www.multitouch.nl/

Just finished dual Nextwindow screen support for Snowflake, connecting 2 NW screens, supporting 4 touches

Currently working on projects in USA, Asia, Africa and Middle East.

Upcoming week our Polish Software Engineers will be coming to the Natural User Interface headquarters in Skelleftea, Sweden for 2 weeks.

New German Software Engineer intern will start at Natural User Interface in September for a 6 month period

Dagens Industri, Swedens #1 business magazine’s article on venture capital investment in NUI online (Swedish only) http://tinyurl.com/mlk3mz

Saw the latest version of Snowflake for rear cam based solutions and it has an interesting performance increase, v1.6 will be released soon

Natural User Interface Europe AB featured in Dagens Industri, #1 business magazine in Sweden, regarding new venture capital injection

Natural User Interface Europe AB secures first round investment from Savingbank of Norrland foundation for Venture Capital

Natural User Interface Europe AB partners with N-trig, find the press release here: http://bit.ly/18lxil

Natural User Interface recently finished up a multi-touch software customization job for a client in Dubai

Several pictures of the Formula 1 event in Kuala Lumpur, where Natural User Interface served Ferrari http://tinyurl.com/mot2ps

Natural User Interface featured on Reuters website: http://bit.ly/13uu0a
Natural User Interface successfully partnered with Bredbandsbolaget on a future technology event in Stockholm using Snowflake for Nextwindow

Peter Bomark, involved in Research and Development at Natural User Interface held a presentation for the local university on the tech

Snowflake Suite integration on gorgeous 100″ multi-touch table by partner Ideum

Natural User Interface invited for Sign Scandinavia - Digital Signage 4-6 November 2009

Natural User Interface assists SingTel with iMedia launch, see the pictures and the story at http://www.multitouch.nl/

Latest Horizon arrived for the demo room

SID was a success for our partner N-trig, heading home to Sweden again tomorrow

Just contracted a new software engineer for Natural User Interface

N-trig and Natural User Interface at Business Wire http://tinyurl.com/qejxnq

Just returned from N-trig party, was fun!

Placed a bunch of pictures on my blog of the N-trig booth, you can find them at www.multitouch.nl

Going to the N-trig party tonight in San Antonio

Visited SID today where our partner N-trig demonstrated Snowflake Suite on their DuoSense platform, see promo video http://tinyurl.com/ogz5rz

Just finished with 2 new multi-touch applications for Snowflake, that will be included in the 1.6 release.

Snowflake Suite now also being used in banks in the financial sector

Waiting at Stockholm airport for my flight to Atlanta and San Antonio for SID

Natural User Interface Europe AB’s partner N-trig will be demonstrating Snowflake Suite on their platform at SID in San Antonio, USA

Natural User Interface Europe AB inspires Microsoft with Wong application http://tinyurl.com/paf6cg

Currently working on projects in USA, Singapore, Brazil and Dubai

Installed a 67″ multi-touch wall in our office as a demo set

Find Nyteknik article about Natural User Interface Europe AB here (Swedish only): http://bit.ly/17srz5

Natural User Interface Europe AB on the cover of Nyteknik, a Swedish technology magazine

Brought the fussball table to the office upstairs, me - intern 10 - 0, Daniel Ekroth officially in the hall of shame.