Breaking Radio Silence

Hello again,

September and October have been very insightful for me.  I had been hoping to post an announcement regarding the immediate sale of our completed multitouch standalone table products in addition to the Geek Chic integrated solutions, oh, lets say, at the end of September.

The reality is that this stuff takes time.  I've been working with a group of Solidworks (CAD) folk who have been burning the midnight oil to produce enclosures for our table products.  This is extremely exciting but taking a little longer than I'd anticipated.

The good news is that we're looking at Nov. ETA's for our CAD designs, and then we can work with local fabricators to get ETA's for the prototype enclosures.  Then, we'll be in a position to post new work related to these touch frame based units.  I'm very excited to produce these and look forward to seeing where we can take this technology.

In the meant time! We've got a show this week where MindGene is presenting their game table software, d20Pro, on our tables at the convention.  They'll be running events from the touch screen as well!  Very exciting.  (d20Pro press release)

I'll be back soon. And I hope to have lovely photos and videos to share of the new enclosures!

Some videos from PAX West 2011

PAX West 2011 -- Mission Accomplished.

After the poor showing we provided at GenCon this year, we moved to a surface level touch system (IR MT Frame) for PAX.  The results were stunning.  Let me explain:

This was the view from standing behind the table

This was early in the day to boot.  The sun traced a path over the table the entire time we were demo'ing at the convention.  We had absolutely zero incidents of false touches or in ability to touch the screen -- amazing!

This was shot at the Geek Chic HQ in WA.  We dragged the table over to the bay to test in direct/indirect sunlight.

And here she is at the booth at PAX West 2011.  This is show with no flash.

An "action" shot!

The new tech allows for using virtually anything as a touch device, including spears apparently!

Most common question?  "Where's the projectors?" Answer: "We don't need no stinking projectors!"

Another fully body shot.  The canopy was added for use with the vision based system.  We liked it so much we included it this build as well.

One Red-Eye later, sleep is imminent. 

More preview content on the 60" table

quick post with previews for PAX Prime

I've been working on an LCD based screen which is, currently, only touch based with a max of 32 simultaneous events.

Here's two videos showing the table in action.  I'll post some true multitouch samples this week.  The first one is just cute...

here's a still of the table sitting on top of the 40" Locus Developer build

GenCon complete.

I'll post a real update shortly with information on the how the con went in detail and what kind of cool things are in the works officially now.

But to be brief (and get some sleep); The 'Con went wonderfully.  The tables were a big successes despite a pile of technical difficulties.  The flights to and from were terrible.  I was due to arrive yesterday evening, but instead I'm just now getting home today (the next day).

For a teaser...

Arrived at GenCon

Last year I came to GenCon and trusted the airlines to help me transport my screen technology to my chagrin.

Everything turned out okay last year, but this year we sent the core of our tables via FedEx to the hotel.  This lead to a very nice welcome as our packages checked in for us and they selected an awesome room!

So, here's the first pictures of the "tables" from this years GenCon -- more to follow!

Yes, these are boxes!  This is the camera's, cables, computers, and objects.  Screen's, projectors and enclosures are in a truck arriving tonight!

Computers and IR Light bars (in a computer box)  Also pictured are some backup diffusers for the prototype table that MindGene/D20Pro will be sporting.

Mini's, Fids, Mini-fids!  These are some sample fids on an acrylic sample pack from Evonik.  Oh, and some  tagged mini's.

Same as above just showing the tag on the Giant.