Vid from Supercomputing 08

Here's some Renci Vid from SC08, showing some of the technology in the Renci booth. As stated before, I'd love to put a touch table in as a centerpiece to the Social Computing Room, and have multi-touch applications that interact with the 360-degree viz display. This idea meshes well with the ideas demonstrated by InfoMesa.

Also cool to note is the HoloPanel that can be seen in the corner of the booth. A pair of these was used in the Social Computing Room as a part of the Spectacular Justice installation, and they were stunning!

All that said, really this is just to share some cool technology. I'm lucky to work with such smart and resourceful people at Renci.

Renci Multi-Touch blog

Here's the multi-touch blog from Renci. There are two form factors that Renci is working with, a large multi-touch wall at Duke, and a horizontal touch-table at Europa.




My hope is that a touch-table will grace the Social Computer Room. A long-term vision would be to extend our Collage/InfoMesa ideas in the SCR, using the 360-degree display to provide visual real estate. Imagine a group working around a touch table, shooting images out to the 360-degree wall with gestures on the touch table.