Nasa World Wind used with Multitouch
Multitouch November 10th, 2007The last 2 days I’ve been working on a new application (or actually a plugin) which controls Nasa World Wind.
This is the result 
* update: 23 november 2007 *
Using the plugin on my multitouch table (diffused illumination) at the University.
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November 10th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
nice work, we have similar application called touchEarth for Google Earth, I will be posting videos soon.
Best,
Pawel Solyga
November 20th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Cool. Oasis could use it in their video…
We use the projection SmartBoard to do something similar here with our version of Worldwind. Same finger controls but directly on the projected world 8′ x 4′ screen.
Usually to the tune of “He’s got the whole world in his hands,….”
Good work.
rbb
November 21st, 2007 at 8:05 pm
If you don’t mind Mr. Muller, What layering do you use for your FTIR, and how thick of acrylic, and thick/density of silicon if you use it?
November 23rd, 2007 at 9:56 pm
On my prototype I use 8mm acrylic without the silicon…
November 25th, 2007 at 10:19 am
That’s very cool! It feels so fun to spin and turn around the globe on the screen!
But just being curious, how did you transfer the blob inputs from touchlib(you are using that right?) into mouse inputs for the NASA world wind?
November 26th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
I doubt hes doing mouse emulation, hes more likely integrated touchlib directly into the addon, and is using some sort of direct input, or other method of telling worldwind what to do, kind of like the built in joystick support.
November 27th, 2007 at 3:27 am
Could you please post the addon, I’m far too lazy to write one myself. Thanks
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April 10th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Hi
Do you have any plans to publish this add-on, or can you provide any pointers on how you think this should be done? Can you confirm you are doing “true multitouch”, not mouse emulation. This would be one of the best “poster child” applications for multitouch, as your videos demonstrate.
Thanks
Oliver
April 10th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Hi,
its true multi-touch. I made a special C# wrapper for touchlib and a custom nasa ww plugin which gets the touchlib data through this wrapper.
I’m planning to release this application soon enough. (Probably next month or so)
April 14th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Thanks Laurence, that’s great news. Please try to provide newbie-proof instructions!
May 19th, 2008 at 4:29 am
Hey Laurence! Great great work! How soon will the Nasa World Wind app be released? I know you said a month or 2 but Im just curious, I love all this touch technology. Thanks for being awesome! Haha!
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:09 am
Hey Laurence any plans on releasing this application?