Comments on: The iPhone: Alternate Gaming Interface, or Harbinger of an Augmented Future? http://laughingsquid.com/the-iphone-an-alternate-gaming-interface-or-harbinger-of-an-augmented-future/ an online resource for art, culture and technology Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:49:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: sfslim http://laughingsquid.com/the-iphone-an-alternate-gaming-interface-or-harbinger-of-an-augmented-future/comment-page-1/#comment-541094 sfslim Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:24:43 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/?p=5529#comment-541094 The idea of using the iPhone as a secondary controller moves one step closer to reality with the announcement of multitouch.framework. <a href="http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/multitouch" rel="nofollow">http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/multitouch</a><br><br>From the site:<br><br>"MultiTouch.framework is a native Cocoa multi-touch framework for Mac OS X. It uses the default event handling system and the responder chain of the operating system, providing a familiar application programming interface to Mac OS X developers. It is built upon a modular low-level architecture that unifies all touch events, with input units for different multi-touch input devices including FTIR, DI, iPhone/iPod touch, as well as any TUIO-based devices. Thus, as a developer, you do not need to care about the actual input device being used.<br><br>One of the great advantages of this toolkit is that you can develop and test your multi-touch application on your standard desktop Mac, using your iPhone as multi-touch input device, without having to work at an FTIR table all the time." The idea of using the iPhone as a secondary controller moves one step closer to reality with the announcement of multitouch.framework. http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/multitouch

From the site:

“MultiTouch.framework is a native Cocoa multi-touch framework for Mac OS X. It uses the default event handling system and the responder chain of the operating system, providing a familiar application programming interface to Mac OS X developers. It is built upon a modular low-level architecture that unifies all touch events, with input units for different multi-touch input devices including FTIR, DI, iPhone/iPod touch, as well as any TUIO-based devices. Thus, as a developer, you do not need to care about the actual input device being used.

One of the great advantages of this toolkit is that you can develop and test your multi-touch application on your standard desktop Mac, using your iPhone as multi-touch input device, without having to work at an FTIR table all the time.”

]]> By: Ori Inbar http://laughingsquid.com/the-iphone-an-alternate-gaming-interface-or-harbinger-of-an-augmented-future/comment-page-1/#comment-541093 Ori Inbar Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:59:20 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/?p=5529#comment-541093 Very cool post!<br>I totally see iPhone as a pioneering device for augmented reality. In fact I have ranked it as one of the top 10 devices that will reinvent mobile video gaming in my blog <a href="http://www.gamesalfresco.com" rel="nofollow">www.gamesalfresco.com</a> Very cool post!
I totally see iPhone as a pioneering device for augmented reality. In fact I have ranked it as one of the top 10 devices that will reinvent mobile video gaming in my blog http://www.gamesalfresco.com

]]> By: koovus http://laughingsquid.com/the-iphone-an-alternate-gaming-interface-or-harbinger-of-an-augmented-future/comment-page-1/#comment-541092 koovus Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:00:32 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/?p=5529#comment-541092 i do the iphone represents a slice in the direction of augmented reality. I think graffitio is the first real app that shows this possibility and while its pretty simple it clearly gives me the sense of woah whats gonna come next. Its also a bit scary in that we really don't know what the rules are for augmented reality. Playing Graffitio and thinking about AR sent me back to watch a little unknown anime called Dennou Coil that presents a possible future that is not that far from the creative power behind the iphone, or the storm of jailbroken developers that gave rise to the app store. i do the iphone represents a slice in the direction of augmented reality. I think graffitio is the first real app that shows this possibility and while its pretty simple it clearly gives me the sense of woah whats gonna come next. Its also a bit scary in that we really don't know what the rules are for augmented reality. Playing Graffitio and thinking about AR sent me back to watch a little unknown anime called Dennou Coil that presents a possible future that is not that far from the creative power behind the iphone, or the storm of jailbroken developers that gave rise to the app store.

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