Watch that now!
A few weeks ago I first found out about MPX and put a little note in my blog. But I did not have the time to dive deeper into the information presented on that site. Well, I have done so now and have to say, that this is so utterly cool I could cry…
long dubbed video explaining MPX
move and resize at the same time
great interaction demo with several xeyes-windows
dual pointer use in unmodified gimp
18 pointer frenzy
I hope to see MPX evolve into a proper X11-extension (right now it’s a seperate X11-server) for Xorg and common window-managers, toolkits and applications to become multi-pointer aware. Can you say multi-pointer touchscreen/tablet input *very.loud.dr.evil.laugh*. This gives me almost wet dreams for the UI-interaction possibilities on the free desktop systems. Remember this?
July 13th, 2006 at 9:46 am
Hah! I love the sight of 9 geeks moving two mouses each, just to.. to.. move 18 cursors
July 13th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
\o/
I wish this on Nokia 770!
BTW, I also wish a Nokia 770…
August 5th, 2006 at 12:02 am
I found a new presentation of that nifty interface here:
http://www.tedblog.typepad.com/#
August 21st, 2006 at 5:06 pm
how far is lowfat-support for multiple pointers? I’d really like to rotate+scale+move images with two pointers…
btw. it’s really easy to build that cool touch-screen of mr. han; I’ve did it myself (without the cool applications of course, just something to draw colourful lines and a fluid simulation you can modify with multiple fingers). Just some glass-plate, lit from two sides (so the light scatters within), press your finger on the surface and it will glow - record this with a camera, process it with opencv, transform it a bit…
I’d like to use it with mpx…
August 21st, 2006 at 10:14 pm
@ pascal: As I don’t have any multi-pointer capable hardware or setup at the moment I cannot test or develop towards this. Furthermore university and side-jobs are taking most of my time right now.