GestureWorks Partners with Touch Revolution, See Us at CES
Ideum is teaming up with Touch Revolution to offer GestureWorks, our Flash multitouch framework, as part of a software bundle that will be included with the new 21.5″ TRū™ Touch…
Author Archive for Jim Spadaccini
Gesture-Based Computing: Four to Five Years Out in Horizon Report
The New Media Consortium has published the 2010 Horizon Report: Museum Edition which “identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact over the coming five years on a variety…
Winter Solstice Solar Marker at Chaco Canyon
This morning I was able to observe sunrise at the great house of Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The weather was dicey, so I feel very lucky to have captured this amazing solar display. This effect is seen at sunrise for the days surrounding the time of the winter solstice. The sun shines through a corner window and the image appears in the…
GestureWorks 2.0 – Multitouch for Flash and Flex
I’m very happy to announce the release of a major update to our GestureWorks multitouch authoring frameworks for Adobe Flash and Flex. The new version has some great new features, most notably over…
NASA Space Weather Viewer iPhone App — The Video!
We’ve just posted a video on our YouTube channel (multitouchexhibits) showing the features of the NASA Space Weather Viewer iPhone app that we released at the end of October. The app connects to near-realtime views of the Sun from NASA Satellites. Check out the video below: The app is free. Look for the NASA Space Weather Viewer on the iTunes Preview page. You can scan the QR code here to visit the page. Also, in case you missed it, we posted more…
Building a High-Resolution Multitouch Wall (Part 1)
For the latest installments see: Building a High-Resolution Multitouch Wall (Part 2), Building a High-Resolution Multitouch Wall (Part 3) , Building a High-Resolution Multitouch Wall (Part 4) and Building a High-Resolution Multitouch Wall (Part 5). (Update 9/7/12: You might want checkout the Presenter Touch Wall, a 65″ multitouch wall built for public spaces.) We’ve just begun work on our most ambitious installation to date: a 7′ round, high-resoultion, multitouch wall. The exhibit is being built for a major North American aquarium…
Introducing Open Exhibits
On September 21st, I announced that we received funding for Open Exhibits from the National Science Foundation. It is great to be able to announce today, just two months later, that Open…
Apple, Not Flash, Might Be In Trouble
As the so-called Apple vs. Adobe war continues, the consensus that Apple is winning out and that Adobe (Flash in particular) is in trouble has begun to crumble. A recent New York Times article, Will Apple’s Culture Hurt the iPhone?, raised some very interesting questions about Apple and the long-term prospects for its closed development environment. They (and we here at Ideum) are wondering: Can Apple, which insists on tight control of its devices, win in an intensely competitive market against rivals that are…
Simple Mobile: Using QR Codes with a Multitouch Table Exhibit
This week we put together a quick test using QR Codes to extend a multitouch exhibit that we developed last year. QR Codes are an easy way to incorporate a mobile exhibit component…
