A view of the future, from August 2006. Jeff Han discusses Multi-touch Interactions

A view of the future, from August 2006. Jeff Han discusses multi-touch. I’m sure you’ve all seen this, and I’m making my case from the back of the pack; I’m making a case in my bloor media article that multi-touch interaction libraries have reached a downstream point, such that they will become ubiquitous, just like cds and just like the internet, which were around for 5 years or so, before they gained critical mass appeal and acceptance.

It’s dependent on cost/technical barrier/network effect.

With O3d and other 3d markup languages, Multi-touch is about to hit that point in the next few years in a way it could not of before. Check out what Jeff Han was doing in 2006. (which is now all owned by the damn see eye eh likely). Dell’s XT2 is the first commercial tech with multi-touch. Just like ARPA-net to the internet, it’s coming…

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