Update

It's been a while since our last update, but we sure made some progress in the meanwhile.

We completely closed the table with wooden panels, so no external light can disturb with the working of out table.





We successfully installed MultTouchVista and made it work with Tbeta as an input device (sends TUIO to MultiTouchVista).
So now we use the standard built in multi-touch function of Windows7.

We installed google earth to play around with :P, and we also tried to install Nasa Worlwind and the multi-touch plugin, but for some reason (we think: not supported driver) it won't start up at all, so we can't test with it.

We installed Bumptop for a more multi-touch experience, it has some cool functions.

windows 7 and Multitouchvista

In our previous post you can see our first demo,

There are some small differences in our setup since our last video's,

We upgraded our pc from a P4 to a Dual core developers machine, Tbeta runs much smoother now.
We also installed Windows7 on it. Why? Because Windows 7 supports Multi touch input.

The only problem is that Windows does not know that we made a multi touch screen, it just sees a independent projector and webcam, so we need to tell Windows that there are Multiple (touch) inputs possible, multiple inputs as in, we connect 4 different mouses to the pc and each user can control it's own mouse and do different things with it.

One way, and as far as we know, the only way at this moment is to install MultiTouchVista.
This project is still in alpha phase, we need to compile the solutions ourself.

But for some reason we can't seem to get it working, and that is what we are figuring out now.