In a world first, Illusion Labs shows off their commercial games running on a big screen multi-touch table.
The smash hit games Touchgrind and Sway have previously proven themselves in a smaller format on the iPhone with hundreds of thousands copies sold.
“Multi-touch adds a whole new dimension to gaming when used properly” says Carl Loodberg, CEO at Illusion Labs, and continues “Our focus at Illusion Labs is
creating innovative games and applications with novel interaction that will WOW the audience”.
In this video we show our games on a platform by Touchtech in cooperation with Crowd. The games run on any multi-touch hardware, including mobile devices, multi-touch laptops and large window displays.
About Touchgrind
Touchgrind brings skateboarding to your fingertips using innovative multi-touch controls. The board is controlled by moving the fingers on the screen just as a real skater moves his legs.
Released last November, Touchgrind has become one of the most popular commercial games on the Apple App Store, never dropping below top 40 on the US top list since its release.
About Sway
Swing and sway through beautiful worlds in this rag doll physics simulation using finger gestures to control the creatures’ little grabby hands.
Fresh on the Apple App Store, Sway has already been top rated and is a favorite of many avid players.
About Illusion Labs
Illusion Labs specializes in WOW factor games and applications. They combine engineering and aesthetics to create fun and appealing pieces of work. Some of their strongest sides are graphics, physics simulation, and novel interaction such as accelerometer and multi-touch.
Illusion Labs was founded in 2007 by Andreas Alptun and Carl Loodberg and is located in Malmö, Sweden.
On Monday, Mozilla released Firefox 3.1 Beta 2, the first version of its flagship web browser to support multi-touch gestures. Owners of MacBook, MacBook Air or MacBook Pro with multi-touch trackpads can try out the latest beta version of Firefox 3.1 that supports finger gestures. Supported gestures are even more robust than Safari’s limited support (back, forward, resize text) and include: Swipe (3 fingers) left and right to go back and forward in history, Swipe up and down to go to the top or end of the page, Pinch to zoom in and out, and Twist between tabs to switch from one tab to another. There is no known release date for the final release of Firefox 3.1 but these multitouch gestures are expected to be released with the final version.
The latest MacBook and MacBook Pros (late 2008 models) both have a new “buttonless” trackpad which is bigger and made of a touch-friendly, and wear-resistant glass. The entire trackpad has been completely redesigned and it’s also one large button so it’s clickable everywhere on the surface. No separate button means there’s more room for additional multi-touch gestures and your fingers can move with ease on the smooth and silky glass surface.
Use two fingers to scroll up and down a page or a window. Pinch to zoom in and out in Safari, Preview, iPhoto, the Finder and even Photoshop CS4. Swipe the trackpad with three fingers together to go back and forth in your browser or navigate between photos in iPhoto and Preview apps. Rotate to adjust an image with your fingertips or use the new four-finger swipe gesture: up and down to access Exposé modes, left or right to switch between open applications. You can also right-click with two fingers or configure a right-click area anywhere on the spacious trackpad to access shortcut menus.
The new improved Multi-Touch trackpad feels as good as it functions and the more you use it, the more you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it. Apple designers and software engineers have spent a considerable amount of time working on the sensitivity, audio feedback and friction of the trackpad. They incorporated these great new Multi-Touch gestures and the result of all these efforts is one of the largest, and most ergonomic MacBook trackpad ever. With the breakthrough aluminum unibody enclosure and stunning LED-backlit displays, these new notebooks are truly spectacular!
Twice as fast for half the price, the 3G iPhone was announced today during Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference Keynote. The iPhone 3G is thinner and it comes with the same gorgeous display, camera, flush headphone jack, dramatically improved audio and battery life. This new model will be available July 11th in 22 countries for $199 for 8 GB and $299 for 16 GB. Both models are available with a black plastic back and the 16 GB model also comes in white.
3G technology means 2.8X faster data downloads than EDGE, which is perfect for Safari and Mail over cellular networks around the world because it’s now almost approaching Wi-Fi speeds. 3G is also multitask so you can talk on the phone while checking your email, surfing the web or using Google Maps.
GPS support is now integrated into the iPhone so you can use Google maps to find your location, get directions, and see traffic via GPS or by triangulating your position using Wi-Fi and cellular towers.
Developed using Flash and C++ by Christian Moore and some folks from the NUI Group, Lux is an experimental open framework that brings a true full screen multi-touch interaction in Mac OS X with complex user interfaces and object manipulation similar to Jeff Han’s multitouch diplay. Christian built his own multitouch screen, which is just a big cardboard box with a webcam stuck to the bottom of it. That video is actually all Action Script 3 running in Flash 9 over Mac OS X, but he says it can work under any platform, OS and even a web browser. The demo was made on a MacBook and it gives a pretty good idea of what to expect from Apple in the future.
Apple has finally released new MacBook Pros with the innovative and advanced Multi-Touch trackpad, first introduced in MacBook Air. New MacBooks are also available but they have no multi-touch trackpads. Both lines are sporting Intel’s new Penryn processors.
Now you can flip through photos, pinch, swipe, or rotate to enlarge text using just your fingers. The Multi-Touch technology from iPhone, iPod touch, and MacBook Air now comes standard to all Apple’s high-end laptops in an amazing Multi-Touch trackpad. The size of the trackpad seems to be the same as before even though it has multi-touch.
with the innovative and advanced Multi-Touch trackpad, first introduced in 
