Ready to Go
The MT-50 Table supports multi-touch and multi-user interactions. It has a bright 50" (diagonal) surface with a high-resolution display, which is higher than Microsoft's Surface multi-touch table. The large display also makes it easier to for multiple visitors to simultaneous interact with computer programs and one another. The multi-touch support allows the use of intuitive hand gestures to manipulate virtual object, images, and media items and to interact with computer-based applications.
Made for the Museum
As museums and other visitor centers are moving toward developing exhibits that foster more visitor communication and interaction: the MT-50 Table is a great platform for these types of computer-based exhibits. The playful nature of multi-touch interaction and the large surface and low ADA compliant table height all contribute to the visitor experience. The MT-50 Table does what traditional computer kiosks can't do: it fosters social interaction and allows visitors to interact physically with museum collections and educational programs.
Visitors to the Don Harrington Discovery Center interact with the table
and one another.
One Tough Table
The MT-50 Table is designed for active museum environments. Both the frame and the interior railing system is made of rugged, aircraft-grade aluminum framing material. The side panels are made of powder-coated cold-rolled steel. The table top is made of anti-glare tempered glass, with micro-etched haptic surface. The interior components have been selected for their quality and durability. The table has been field tested at busy hands-on science museums such as the Ontario Science Centre.
The 50" (diagonal) haptic glass top is coated underneath with projection material for a bright display. The display size is 16:9 ratio at 1280 x 800 pixels. The bright 2100 ANSI projector has a 2000-to-1 contrast ratio and the image displays on the table with zero keystoning. The high-resolution DLP projector has 3,000 hour bulb life.
NUITech Suite 1.6 Snowflake
The MT-50 Table ships with NUITech's innovative Snowflake Software. NUITech Suite 1.6 Snowflake is a fast and reliable gesture recognition multi-touch software package. This software suite includes NUITech Touch Core, which can be used with any programming language that supports the TUIO protocol. Software developers can create their own applications with Flash (ActionScript3), C/C++/C#, Java, Python, and other programming languages.
The NUITech Snowflake package comes with a dozen multitouch applications and games: Viewer (media viewer with support for image and video media types), Draw (basic drawing application), 3D model viewer (.3ds and .obj file format support) along with other applications. The MT-50 Tablepackage even includes NUITech's TouchEarth (Google Earth with a multitouch interface).
Collection Viewer
Each MT-50 Table comes with Ideum’s Collection Viewer, a multitouch enabled image and video viewer. The Collection Viewer uses Adobe’s XMP metadata providing important information about the media items displayed. In addition, the Collection Viewer supports the Timed Text standard, allowing for captioning of videos.
Ideum’s Collection Viewer, a multitouch enabled image and video viewer.
GestureWorks - Flash Multitouch SDK
GestureWorks is the easiest way to develop multitouch applications and software with Adobe Flash. Each multitouch table comes with an unlocked copy of Ideum's GestureWorks framework. Free upgrades are included as part of the support agreement. To learn more about this flash multitouch framework and SDK, visit the GestureWorks website.
Custom Software Development and Installations
Ideum has been developing custom exhibits software since the firm was founded in 1999. We've developed computer-based exhibits for museums across North America, exploring a variety of science, history, art, and cultural topics.
Along with software, our experience in designing and developing theMT-50 table allows us to build custom multitouch hardware installations. We can develop large-scale tables or multitouch walls.
For custom software development questions, please contact us.
A "surface shot" of a custom interactive mapping and photo mashupapplication at Ontario Science Centre in Toronto.
Details
To learn more about the MT-50 able please see our Specifications document or read our Press Release. You can see more photos and video of the MT-50 Table and custom exhibits on Flickr, Blip TV andYouTube.
MT-50 Table Specifications (Updated: 11-12-09) (435kb)
Press Release (8-20-09) (44kb)
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