http://laughingsquid.disqus.com/a resource for art, culture and technologyenWed, 30 Jul 2008 19:24:43 -0000http://laughingsquid.com/the-iphone-an-alternate-gaming-interface-or-harbinger-of-an-augmented-future/#comment-1055674<p>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 noopener" target="_blank" title="http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/multitouch">http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/m...</a></p><p>From the site:</p><p>"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.</p><p>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."</p>sfslimWed, 30 Jul 2008 19:24:43 -0000http://laughingsquid.com/the-iphone-an-alternate-gaming-interface-or-harbinger-of-an-augmented-future/#comment-948700<p>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 noopener" target="_blank" title="www.gamesalfresco.com">www.gamesalfresco.com</a></p>Ori InbarSun, 20 Jul 2008 07:59:20 -0000http://laughingsquid.com/the-iphone-an-alternate-gaming-interface-or-harbinger-of-an-augmented-future/#comment-928817<p>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. </p>floozyspeakThu, 17 Jul 2008 23:00:32 -0000