I've been trying to get Adobe to tell me what their multi-touch strategy is going to be, but without much success. I figured they have to have one. Who would they partner with? What would the SDK look like? And so on ...So I was excited when I read on the NUI Group that Adobe and the NUI Group is planning on hosting a summit on multitouch Flash in Europe this year (2009). If I can get there I will.
If you didn't already know this, there is an open source multitouch SDK called TUIO, which already supports Flash's ActionScript as well as C/C++, C#, Java, Objective C, and Python. This may be the foundation on which Adobe will add multitouch to Flash. I haven't worked with it yet so I don't know how well it works. Here is a video of multitouch applications programed in Flash using the NUI Suite 1.0 Snowflake tracking software - very cool! (thanks to Rob Gonda's blog.)
It seems obvious that if Adobe becomes active in multitouch then mass adoption of this paradigm is not far off. There are millions of Flash developers world wide - opening up multitouch to that audience is a huge step for the multitouch industry.
The NUI Group is an awesome resource and deserves a post of its own which I've meant to do for a long time but haven't gotten around to yet.
1 comments:
Thanks for creating awareness for the summit that Adobe and NUI are going to host.
I hope you can come to the event.
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