The Massive 100" Ideum Multi-Touch Table

Ideum has made good on a promise they made in June (see this post) to create a massive 100" multi-touch table. I covered one of Ideum's first multi-touch tables, mt2, back in February. At that time they were using the NUI Snowflake gesture engine and programming in Flash.

Assuming this new 100" table is also using Snowflake, it shows that if Adobe doesn't properly support mutli-touch (see this post) we can turn to the NUI Snowflake Suite to get what we want. The graphics are excellent and there is plenty of multi-touch and gesture operations taking place at the same time. Nice work, guys!

Some interesting details about the device can be found in this Engadget article.

Update

I sent Ideum an email asking if they used Snowflake again and this is the reply I got from Jim Spadaccini of Ideum.

"Yes. We used NUI Snowflake for tracking. The slight improvement in blob tracking comes from the fact that ...The computers are a bit better: Intel I7s whith 6 gigs of triple channel DDR RAM.

"Also, the table has two computers split the load for processing. One processes the 4 cameras and does the tracking. It spits out TUIO events--that the other computer consumes. This second computer then runs the program and powers the two projectors. The 50 points as opposed to around 40, comes from the fact that camera and tracking processing are separated from running the actual application."