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Jan 3, 2014 - Ideum, makers of GestureWorks, have released two major additions to their line of multitouch tables and walls - both perfect for showcasing your GestureWorks-built applications. As with all of their products, they are sold with a lifetime license for GestureWorks.

  Platform Drafting Multitouch Table

Ideum's take on the classic mechanical desk has a fixed display (46", 55", or 65") at a 30 degree angle seated on their signature Platform pedestal. The 46″ model features a 3M Display that allows for 60 simultaneous touch points. The Platform Drafting Multitouch Table is integrated with a high performance Intel Quad-Core i7 with 8GB RAM and can be upgraded to include a powerful, discrete graphics card and other options.

  4K Ultra HD Multitouch Tables and Walls

All of Ideum's 55″, 65″, and 100″ multitouch tables and touch walls, including the new 55" and 65" Platform Drafting tables, are now available with 4x the resolution of standard HD. Their new 4K Ultra HD touch tables and walls have 3840 x 2160 Ultra HD resolution, as opposed to the standard HD resolution of 1920 x 1080. Check out the coverage of this exciting feature on Gizmag!

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New Releases: Gestureworks Core 1.1, Flash 3.6, and GestureKey 1.1

Apr 16, 2013 - Three new releases hit the virtual shelves today with new versions of Gestureworks Core, Gestureworks Flash, and GestureKey. We've got some great new features, improvements, and fixes included in these releases - read on for details!

Gestureworks Core v1.1

With version 1.1 of Gestureworks Core, we've improved Leap Motion Controller compatibility with more robust point tracking and now allow for N-points with the Leap Motion Controller.

In addition, there are new features such as the ability to track blob size of touch points and a new mouse simulator mode for simulating touch input in C++, Python, and Unity3D.

The Gestureworks Core Visualizer also gets some new functionality with "pressure" visualization for 2D and 3D points and "shadow sense" visualization when working with the Leap Motion Controller.

As well, we've posted three new tutorials showing how Gestureworks Core and the Python bindings can be used to develop multitouch applications using the open source Panda3D game engine and framework.

Python & Panda3D: Getting Started I (Hello World)

Python & Panda3D: Getting Started II (Hello Multitouch)

Python & Panda3D: Interactive Bitmaps

To see the full release notes for Gestureworks Core v1.1 check out the Gestureworks Core Release Notes page on the wiki, and if you haven't already, give Gestureworks Core a try by downloading the free trial from the Gestureworks Store.

Gestureworks Flash v3.6

The newest version of Gestureworks Flash is now available and adds a number of new features and ten new and improved UI elements and components:

Accordion

Model3D

Drawer

Dock

FlickrQuery

ProgressBar

HotSpot

SlideshowViewer

ScrollPane

ScrollBar

Some of the exciting new features in v3.6 are 2D gesture recognition with the Leap Motion Controller, Starling support, and TweenMax integration.

Here you can see a new Collection Viewer showcasing another great new feature introduced in v3.6, database-driven rendering (the images here are pulled from a CollectiveAccess database):

On the CreativeML and GestureML and side, we've got new and improved CML expression attributes, selectors, and template renderers, and a new open GML binding infrastructure allows use of any framework or input type.

To see the full release notes for v3.6 check out the Gestureworks Flash Release Notes page on the wiki, and if you haven't already, give Gestureworks Flash a try by downloading the free trial from the Gestureworks Store.

GestureKey v1.1

GestureKey is our low-cost Windows 8 utility that gesture-enables virtually any application running on Windows 8 in minutes.

With version 1.1 of GestureKey, we introduce the new Auto Launch feature that will automatically launch and connect to your target application; no more manually selecting the application each time you want to gesture-enable your app!

We've added new input commands such as relative mouse and the SHIFT key, and have also added the ability to print your Gesture Maps.

Check out the full Release Notes on the Gestureworks wiki and purchase GestureKey v1.1 at the Gestureworks Store.

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Jan 2013 - It is with a great deal of enthusiasm that we announce the release of Gestureworks Core.

Core is a new and innovative multitouch and HCI framework for C++, C#/.NET, Java, and Python that was developed by Ideum over the last few years.  The framework reflects our knowledge of authoring custom exhibits and applications, our learning experiences from developing multitouch systems and experimenting with motion recognition and other new HCI technologies.

The Gestureworks Core team has created the most efficient and powerful authoring platform for multitouch and motion recognition ever built. It has a small CPU-footprint, thread safe processing and Gestureworks built-apps perform flawlessly on virtually any touch-enabled device – from a phone to a huge multiscreen ultra-HD touch wall. Gestureworks Core also works with the Leap motion device.

Core comes with a library of over 300 gestures and is fully extensible with support for Gesture Markup language (GML). The framework also has gesture filters including interitial  and noise filtering, so virtual objects behave as one would expect. Developers can work in a variety of existing frameworks including: Cinder, Open Frameworks, Unity 3D, XNA, Kivy, Java 2D and Processing. 

Watch our video above featuring the Gestureworks Core Visualizer and witness the power and efficiency of Core.

Gestureworks Core Visualizer from Ideum on Vimeo.

Along with Gestureworks Core, we will be releasing the GestureKey utility for Windows 8. This application allows users to to map key-commands and mouse events to gestures, making legacy applications touch-enabled. Please visit the Gestureworks website on February 13th to learn more about Core and the GestureKey Utility. 

(Cross-posted on Ideum blog.)

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GestureKey Utility to be Released in February

Jan 2013 - GestureKey is a utility application that maps key commands and mouse events to gestures in Windows 8. With this simple utility, users can make legacy applications touch-enabled in minutes.  Legacy games, utilities, or other applications can be transformed using GestureKey.

We built the utility using our own Gestureworks Core for gesture processing. We’ve tested the utility on Ultrabooks and tablets, although it can run anywhere Windows 8 runs. We will be demoing this software at ISE2013 in Amsterdam next week.

GestureKey allows users to build, save, edit, share and load their own “gesture maps” for popular applications.  We’ve run GestureKey with dozens of applications and it is a great way to get the most out of a touch-enabled Ultrabook. Below is screen shot of the GestureKey interface.

A personal edition of GestureKey will cost less than $10 and will be available in the Gestureworks store. GestureKey will be released, along with the new Gestureworks Core on February 13th.

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Gestureworks and Ideum at ISE 2013 in Amsterdam

Feb 6, 2013 - 

We will be at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) from January 29-31 in Amsterdam. The conference drew 40,000 attendees last year and a large number of display, HCI, hardware and software vendors exhibit their products.You can learn more about the conference at: www.iseurope.org

The GestureWorks and Ideum booth (stand 8-R200) will have a Platform multitouch table and we will be showing the Gestureworks Core multitouch software along with our new GestureKey utility for Windows 8. We will show our software working with a number of different touch and motion recognition devices including our own multitouch table.

If you are planning on attending and would like meet up, please contact us and let us know. See you in Amsterdam in the new year!

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TechCrunch Article on the Gestureworks Platform

Feb 6, 2013 - TechCrunch posted an article on Gestureworks including a review of the new Gestureworks Core and GestureKey multitouch utility app.

The author, Alex Williams met us the Blur conference and shot some video of Gestureworks in action as well. You can read the full article on the TechCrunch website: Ideum’s GestureWorks Platform Will Let Developers Create Complex Gestures For Ultrabooks Apps. Also, TechCrunch interviewed Ideum/Gesturework’s Jim Spadaccini for an article earlier in the month, see: 5 Perspectives On The Future Of The Human Interface.

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GestureKey – Maps Multitouch Gestures to Key Commands

Feb 6, 2013 - GestureKey is a Windows-based utility that uses the Gestureworks Core processing engine. This stand-alone utility maps key commands and mouse events to gestures. The utility can make an application (games, utilities, productivity apps) multitouch aware in minutes. For example, we made a multitouch version of Google Earth in about two minutes, with no programming!

This utility is useful for end-users looking to make their apps touch aware on Windows tablets, Ultrabooks, or all-in-ones. It is also useful for software developers to rapidly see how multitouch might work with their applications. We haven’t released pricing or release date information yet, but we will in the next few weeks.