Entries tagged with multi-touch - Channel 9

SocialGrow: Grow Your Social Network

John O'Donnell — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:52:00 GMT

Larry Gregory talked to Marsh Sutherland, Charbel Elkhoury and Ken Herron from SocialGrow at a recent Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week in Boston hosted by Sanjay Jain. With a few days of design and development effort SocialGrow leveraged IE8 Accelerator, Multi-Touch and Federated Search capabilities of Windows 7 to help their customers in growing their social network.

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John O'Donnell
Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
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Panopto utilizes Windows 7 features in Presentation Recording solution

John O'Donnell — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:39:00 GMT

Larry Gregory talked to Eric Burns, John Ketchpaw from Panopto at a recent Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week in Boston hosted by Sanjay Jain. With few days of design and development effort Panopto leveraged Taskbar, Speech-to-text, multi-touch capabilities of Windows 7 to enhance their presentation recording solution.

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John O'Donnell
Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
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BumpTop brings 3-D Desktop to Windows 7 users

John O'Donnell — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:23:00 GMT

Larry Gregory talked to Anand Agarawala, Patrick Dubroy from BumpTop at a recent Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week in Boston hosted by Sanjay Jain. With few days of design and development effort BumpTop brings a 3-D desktop leveraging multi-touch and patented advanced gestures.

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John O'Donnell
Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft Surface Apps for Windows 7

Sarah Perez — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:41:00 GMT

At the Tablet PC meetup at CES’s CntrStg, a Microsoft representative was demonstrating a Windows 7 touchscreen computer and its capabilities. After going through the usual – Aero Peek, shake to minimize, the new taskbar, and more – she showed us some really cool apps. Built by the Microsoft Surface team specifically for Windows 7, two new applications take advantage of the native touch and multi-touch capabilities built into Windows 7.

The first app demonstrated is called Microsoft Surface Collage for Windows 7. The app is a multi-touch photo viewing application. The photos on the screen can be resized using pinches, as has become standard with touch apps. And because it’s multi-touch, two people can touch and move the photos at the same time. You can use your finger to flip through the filmstip at the bottom of the screen, too.

The second application demonstrated was Microsoft Surface Globe for Windows 7. This one was a touch screen mapping application that let you zoom in and out on satellite imagery using pinches. You could also swipe your finger across the screen to move the map around.

Neither of these applications are available for download just yet, but they should be released around the same time that Windows 7 becomes publicly available.

[Special thanks for CntrStg for providing a great place to upload Channel 10 videos while at CES.]

Microsoft's Pressure Sensitive Keyboards

Laura Foy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:36:00 GMT

There is a somewhat little known department here at Microsoft called the Applied Science Group and they do some truly incredible work. They are the research team behind Microsoft Hardware. I met up with Paul Dietz from this group and he showed me the amazing new Micrososft Pressure Sensitive Keyboard. Not only are the possibilities limitless- but they're multi-touch and predicted to be priced affordably. After he demo-ed the keyboard for me he showed off some of the winning applications made for it from the User Interface Software & Technology Conference. Absolutely Innovative!

Intertouch Media Technologies innovates on WPF and Multitouch at BizSpark Incubation Week

John O'Donnell — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:53:00 GMT

Larry Gregory talked with David Marra and James Cadd from Intertouch Media Technologies at a recent BizSpark incubation event hosted by Sanjay Jain

Intertouch Media delivers platforms to enable companies to build very compelling interactive systems such as airport kiosks that take advantage of Windows 7 and Multitouch. In addition their solution leverages inertia in their controls so the user really feels compelled to interact with the display.

Do not miss the demo which starts at time index 6:00 minutes as they inertia in their controls and also a Bing integration.

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John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
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Silverlight Multi-touch tutorial from Tim Heuer

Adam Kinney — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:55:00 GMT

Tim Heuer presents the basics of Multi-touch in Silverlight tutorial along with a demo video and source code (both C# and VB). I can't wait to see what people build with this new feature in Silverlight 3.

Developing Windows 7 Multi-Touch Apps without a Multi-Touch Device tutorial

Adam Kinney — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:45:00 GMT

Walt Ritscher has a new tutorial on how to Develop Windows 7 Multi-Touch Apps without a Multi-Touch Device. Using a Codeplex project called MultiTouchVista, Walt shows how to configure your system to work with multiple mice and other input devices.

Rich Client Applications and Windows 7 for Developers

Nigel — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:18:00 GMT

Windows 7 contains many new features for developers that allow you to create very rich applications for your users, including the ability to touch-enable your own applications. This session will cover how you can take advantage of new Windows 7 features using .NET 3.5 to build rich client applications and we’ll also take a look at what’s coming in .NET 4.0. Presented by ISV Developer Advisor, Mike Zeff (http://blogs.msdn.com/mikezeff)

This session was delivered as part of the NZ MSDN Unplugged events http://www.microsoft.com/nz/events/unplugged/msdn-may09.mspx

WPF 4 Beta 1 video series on Channel 9 is now complete

Adam Kinney — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:29:00 GMT

Posting the final few pieces today on the new Visual Studio Designer for WPF and Silverlight, we are up to 7 videos spanning 79 minutes and 5 seconds of content covering WPF 4 Beta 1.

Videos include:

Windows 7 RC Training Kit for Developers now available

Adam Kinney — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:10:00 GMT

The Windows 7 RC Training Kit is now available and includes 7 Hands-on Labs, 9 Presentation Decks covering Windows 7 awesome features like Multi-touch, Sensors and the Taskbar. To take advantage of the kit you must be running Windows 7 RC, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and the Windows 7 RC SDK. This Kit along with the Windows 7 Developer Blog and the Windows 7 videos on Ch9 should have you writing amazing Win7 Apps in no time.

Multi-touch in WPF 4 Beta 1

Adam Kinney — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:51:00 GMT

Jaime Rodriguez sat down with Anson Tsao to discuss the new Multi-touch capabilities of WPF available in WPF 4 Beta 1. Multiple inputs are exposed through existing and new input events, along with new manipulation and inertia events.

For instructions on how to download and install Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and WPF 4 Beta 1 check out this episode of 10-4.

Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 includes games and optimized applications

Adam Kinney — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:01:00 GMT

The Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 was released today. Now when you get your hands on a Windows 7 Multi-touch enabled device, you are guaranteed to have some touch optimized applications and games to use.

Multi-touch .NET Library for Windows 7

Adam Kinney — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:54:00 GMT

Yochay Kiraity has been working with the team to create Managed Code APIs making it even easier for .NET developers to take advantage of new features in Windows 7. In this video, Yochay demonstrates the Multi-touch functionality built into Windows 7 and shows how to handle gestures.

- Download the Windows Touch: Developer Resources

This is Part 3 in a 3-Part Series covering the Managed Code APIs. Part 1 demonstrates the Sensor and Location Library and Part 2 demonstrates the Taskbar and Libraries Library.

- Download the Windows API Code Pack (for the other managed libraries)

Preparing for Windows 7 as a Developer

Adam Kinney — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:01:00 GMT

The upcoming arrival of Windows 7 brings new opportunities for developers and their applications. Tim Sneath has posted a Windows 7 guide covering Application Compatibility and toolkits that enable you to take advantage of new features in Windows 7 like Multi-touch, Taskbar, Sensors and more.

Programming Windows 7 Multi Touch - Part 2

Yochay Kiriaty — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:23:00 GMT

In the Windows 7 Multi-Touch Overview video we talked about the basic multi-touch functionality in Windows 7 and a little bit about the “Good, Better, and Best” programming model. In this video, we focus on Windows 7 multi-touch programming model. Join Reed Townsend and Ian Mendiola as they cover how to configure and work with multi-touch gestures, how to work with raw multi-touch messages, and what the manipulation and inertia processes are and how to work with them.

This is another video in the Windows 7 multi touch series, which includes:

Programming Windows 7 Multi Touch – Part 1

Yochay Kiriaty — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:23:00 GMT

This is another video in the Windows 7 multi touch series, which includes:

Windows 7 Multi Touch Overview

Yochay Kiriaty — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:22:00 GMT

We have added multi-touch capabilities to Windows 7 that provide support for both Windows 7 and applications--even those applications that were not developed specifically to support multi-touch. As developers, we have the opportunity to opt into multi-touch in Windows 7 and provide additional functionality to our end users, enhancing their user experience.

Join Reed Townsend and Yochay Kiriaty as they explorer multi-touch in Windows 7. They will cover basic out of the box support for legacy applications, as well as for applications optimized for multi-touch, and explain the “Good, Better, and Best” programming model.

This is the first video in the Windows 7 Multi-Touch series, which includes:

Using Touch in Line-of-Business Apps

Ben Riga — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:14:00 GMT

I was mesmerized by this simple but cool Microsoft Surface demo at last fall’s Convergence conference in Copenhagen. Lachlan Cash was kind enough to let me post the video here as a great example of how touch can transform visualization and manipulation of complex line-of-business information.

The demo during Kirill Tatarinov’s keynote session shows top-down heat-map visualization of the bins in a warehouse. The color-coding gives an immediate view into the status of the warehouse with blue showing cold (i.e. bins with low pick rates) and red showing hot (i.e. bins with high pick rates). Multi-touch is fully supported on Surface allowing multiple warehouse staff to collaborate while manipulating the data to optimize the warehouse for fast picking.

It’s not clear to me that we’ll see many Surface devices in warehouses as that’s not the initial target market. On the other hand, as Kirill mentions at the end, this type of innovation gets much more interesting with the new Windows Touch technology in Windows 7. I can just imagine 60-inch multi-touch displays becoming the control centers of warehouses in the not so distant future. I hope that this sparks some ideas for how you might use touch in your line-of-business applications using either the Microsoft Surface or Windows 7.

Resources:

TCSWeekly 003 - Silverlight, Moonlight, Kaxaml, Facebook, Multi-touch

Adam Kinney — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:20:00 GMT

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Surface beats with Vectorform

Adam Kinney — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:23:00 GMT

SurfaceDJ from Vectorform was one of my favorite applications shown at PDC. Not only does it involve Multi-touch, Surface and music; but it is an example of a new form of collaborative application. Joe Engalan and Markus Sheldon build up the music, keep it alive and then break it down in real-time while working together at the Surface table. I want one!

Check out Vectorform's Surface blog to see some of their other Surface applications. Yes, they are the ones behind NBC's Electoral application.

IdentityMine's multitude of Multi-touch apps

Adam Kinney — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:40:00 GMT

On a whirlwind tour of the IdentityMine booth provided by Kurt Brockett and Meg McAllister, we get to see their Surface Photo Sharing app, their Photo Slideshow app using NextWindow touch screens and their AirHockey running on Windows 7.

Multi-touch was one of the big deals for me at PDC2008, because the concept brings new design opportunities and challenges. Seeing the different applications come to life was very cool and I'm looking forward to seeing what comes next in this space.