Comments on: Microsoft Surface + Flash?

By: Jean Helfenstein

Jean Helfenstein — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:42:25 +0000

Hi Ryan,

Apparently there is a SurfaceToTuio component available : http://johannesluderschmidt.de/lang/en-us/microsoft-surface-tuio-overlay/895/

Which translate the MS Surface touch events into TUIO messages. The TUIO messages can then be detected into a flash application using FlashOSC and a TUIO AS3 Library (http://www.tuio.org/?flash) .

This should work in theory, I will be able to test it at my university middle of March. I’ll update you on that.

Jean

By: Frank Garofalo

Frank Garofalo — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:45:20 +0000

Hello Ryan,

Sorry for not communicating in a while – the academic world doesn’t move too fast some times (too much bureaucracy).

We now have a MS Surface on campus that I will have a chance to play with this past Thursday. We are going to try to get an Adobe Flash app to run on the Surface using the tBeta protocol (http://tbeta.nuigroup.com). Have you made any developments regarding MS Surface & Adobe Flash?

-Frank

By: Frank Garofalo

Frank Garofalo — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:42:33 +0000

Hello Ryan,

I’m a graduate student at Purdue University. We are researching interface design for multi-touch devices using Adobe Flash. You mentioned at the end of your post “Does anyone know of any other similar projects going on, or want to start one?” – are you looking for a potential collaboration?

Thanks, Frank

By: Axel Jensen

Axel Jensen — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:19:09 +0000

can i come see it tomorrow?

By: Stephane Vales

Stephane Vales — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:24:10 +0000

Mutitouch applications in flash/flex already exist and even run on multiple hardware. You can take a look and at related videos.

By: John Wilker

John Wilker — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:25:15 +0000

Yeah it’s definitely an interesting thing to have around. We’re working on some neat stuff for it, it’s a very different platform for sure. But yeah, it’s not primetime ready, yet.

@Stephen, what isn’t a waste of money really? The value is based on the use case. having a coffee table that does more than hold up drinks at a conference booth, or in your meeting space at the office, adds ‘wow’ for sure, no doubt about it.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:14:01 +0000

@Steven – In the advertising and marketing industry, it’s all about having the newest, most cutting edge technology because it adds “wow” factor to a presentation. We already have several clients interested in developing Surface applications for trade shows and the like, so it should pay for itself fairly quickly. However, I certainly wouldn’t recommend getting one for your living room.

By: Steven Hargrove

Steven Hargrove — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:57:05 +0000

What a ridiculous waste of money.

By: faisal abid

faisal abid — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:15:50 +0000

ofcourse it is possible. like you said there has been some work with multi touch and flash already. i dont have anything multitouch other then the ipod touch which has no flash. but if i did id love to build a framework for multi touch applications in flex