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Updated Wiki: Community

michwass — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:49:28 GMT

Featured Touchless Users and Community Members

Community Member Zot

Zot created Ideldes, an impressive sign language interpreter. The project captures gestures made by the user's gloved hand with colored fingers, interpreting and translating. The application helps users learn sign language, verifying that registered signs are done correctly. Watch the video demonstration and visiting the project homepage

Community Member Thayine

Thayine is a student of Informatics Institute of Technology in Sri Lanka, affiliated with University of Westminster, UK. She developed "ChangeIt", a novel final year project that allows users to augment their appearance with virtual jewelry in real time. ChangeIt uses Touchless SDK to manipulate virtual images over a live camera feed with natural user interface techniques; very cool! Watch the video demonstration and offer feedback on this great project.

Community Member Lucian Wischik

Lucian is a developer for Microsoft in Visual Studio Managed Languages. He created an extremely fun and unique game using Touchless SDK called "Stay In the Game". His game is written in Visual Basic and soon to be featured on Channel9 (I'll have the link for you soon). Beyond encouraging violence* through the highly physical gameplay of "Stay In The Game"; Lucian also put together a simple VB sample for Touchless SDK. Both projects will soon be hosted here, but for now, visit his MSDN Code Gallery page to scoop up his awesome projects.
*Of course we don't encourage violence :-)

Community Member Jonathan Synnott (jsynnott)

Jonathan is a university student at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown in Northern Ireland. His final year project is creating a PC game that uses Touchless and a microphone as input. Check out his blog for more info and definitely check out his great videos.

Community Member Papnkukn

Papnkukn developed several cool projects using Touchless [projects and videos|http://www.papnkukn.net/touchless]. TouchlessWPF is a very cool and simple WPF interface to Touchless. TouchlessKnight is a marker/mouse powered game that puts you in the seat of the Knight's Tour Problem. TouchlessCircuit lets you design circuits by manipulating individual elements with a marker/mouse. TouchlessCanvas is a general WPF component that simplifies WPF development with Touchless.

Contributor John Conwell

John wrote the managed version of WebCamLib that was recently commited to our source control. John is interested in NVIDIA CUDA support development.

Contributor Szymon Kobalczyk

Szymon wrote a WPF version of TouchlessLib and TouchlessDemo [project source|http://cid-4c7ec0c2176a0b0d.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Touchless%7C_20081028.zip] using Jeremiah Morrill's WPF MediaKit. Szymon is interested in WPF control development, and helping Touchless improve performance and reduce dependencies.

Updated Wiki: Community

michwass — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:07:55 GMT

Featured Touchless Users and Community Members

Community Member Thayine

Community Member Lucian Wischik

Community Member Jonathan Synnott (jsynnott)

Community Member Papnkukn

Contributor John Conwell

John wrote the managed version of WebCamLib that was recently commited to our source control. John is interested in NVIDIA CUDA support development.

Contributor Szymon Kobalczyk

Updated Wiki: Community

michwass — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:11:38 GMT

Featured Touchless Users and Community Members

Community Member Thayine

Thayine is a student of Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka. She developed "ChangeIt", a novel school project that allows users to augment their appearance with virtual jewelery through the aid of natural user interface techniques powered by Touchless SDK. I've got to say that these are some pretty appealing virtual necklaces and bracelets. Watch the video demonstration and offer feedback on this great project.

Community Member Lucian Wischik

Community Member Jonathan Synnott (jsynnott)

Community Member Papnkukn

Contributor John Conwell

John wrote the managed version of WebCamLib that was recently commited to our source control. John is interested in NVIDIA CUDA support development.

Contributor Szymon Kobalczyk

Updated Wiki: Media

michwass — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:39:12 GMT

Touchless Videos

Touchless SDK and Demo - See what Touchless is all about.
Touchless SDK Fair Demo, Aug. '08 - See the Touchless demo booth at Microsoft Office Labs Productivity Fair held in August, 2008.
Touchless SDK Walkthrough Sample (C#) - See how we built the WalkthroughSample drawing demo in only 15 minutes using Touchless SDK binaries.

Touchless Quotes

“Like Microsoft Surface and Touchwall, the Touchless software makes it possible to create applications that turn hand gestures and physical objects into an input device like a mouse.” - Erick Schonfeld, TechCruch
"Microsoft lab rats have been in the dungeon cooking up some new software and technology and the results are very cool. I think the innovative side of Microsoft is starting to come out.” - Gates & Jobs: Microsoft and Apple's Epic Battle
“The Touchless project is a good example of Microsoft doing its own experimentation around open source.” - Matt Assay, Cnet
"The Touchless SDK is a set of .Net components that can be used to simulate the gestural interfaces of devices like the iPhone in thin air -- using nothing fancier than an ordinary USB Webcam." - Neil McAllister, Fatal Exception

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well_sm — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:55:19 GMT

Quando estará pronto o video de Walkthrough Sample? When you're ready to video Walkthrough Sample?

Updated Wiki: Home

michwass — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:04:28 GMT

Have you seen the news from E3 2009?

See the videos from Microsoft's Project Natal and Sony's motion controller
Touchless is conceptually similar to those projects, but was not used in their development.
With Touchless you can create similar natural interaction experiences using only a webcam!

What is Touchless?

Touchless is a fun, webcam multi-"touch" object tracking SDK project.
Watch the Touchless video and try the newest demos including the new mouse control demo!
Check out Lucian Wischik's exciting game Stay In The Game and VB sample project!

Simulate multi-"touch" input with M&Ms, tennis balls, or markers
Fun games, demos, community projects, and an extensible demo application
SDK with good documentation, add multi-"touch" to your own applications
Free and open-source project, games, and demos

What's Next?

Learn more and join the community of users and contributors.

Intro Video - Watch a quick pitch and demo
Project Files - Download the SDK and demos
FAQ - Frequently asked questions
Media - Media and press items
Community - Community and projects

Touchless needs you!

We have some great ideas to improve Touchless for users and developers alike. Together, we can create compelling, natural, and fun user experiences. Unfortunately, I have no regular contributors to the project, and a lot of my ideas and your feedback are falling to the wayside. Consider this your personal invitation to join the Touchless project as a contributor!

Unleash the power of your webcam!

Updated Wiki: Media

michwass — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:02:43 GMT

Touchless Videos

Touchless SDK and Demo - See what Touchless is all about.
Touchless SDK Fair Demo, Aug. '08 - See the Touchless demo booth at Microsoft Office Labs Productivity Fair held in August, 2008.
Touchless SDK Walkthrough Sample (Video will be re-posted shortly) - See how we built the WalkthroughSample drawing demo in only 15 minutes using Touchless SDK binaries.

Touchless Quotes

“Like Microsoft Surface and Touchwall, the Touchless software makes it possible to create applications that turn hand gestures and physical objects into an input device like a mouse.” - Erick Schonfeld, TechCruch
"Microsoft lab rats have been in the dungeon cooking up some new software and technology and the results are very cool. I think the innovative side of Microsoft is starting to come out.” - Gates & Jobs: Microsoft and Apple's Epic Battle
“The Touchless project is a good example of Microsoft doing its own experimentation around open source.” - Matt Assay, Cnet
"The Touchless SDK is a set of .Net components that can be used to simulate the gestural interfaces of devices like the iPhone in thin air -- using nothing fancier than an ordinary USB Webcam." - Neil McAllister, Fatal Exception

Updated Wiki: FAQ

michwass — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:53:57 GMT

What is the Touchless SDK?
The Touchless SDK is an open source SDK for .NET applications. It enables developers to create multi-touch based applications using a webcam for input. Color based markers defined by the user are tracked and their information is published through events to clients of the SDK. In a nutshell, the Touchless SDK enables touch without touching.

What is the Touchless Demo?
The Touchless Demo is an open source application that anyone with a webcam can use to experience multi-touch, no geekiness required. The demo was created using the Touchless SDK and Windows Forms with C#.

What does open source mean?
Open source means the source code for the Touchless SDK and Demo is available for anyone to see, to use and to contribute to. For more information on open source check out the Open Source Initiative.

Are there any restrictions to using the Touchless SDK and Demo code?
Yes. Touchless License uses the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL).

Why is Touchless open source?
There is so much potential with Touchless, however Office Labs has limited resources so we would want to encourage anyone to contribute and benefit from this project.

What are the requirements for Touchless?
Windows Vista or Windows XP
Webcam (Most webcams should work)
Color Markers (M&Ms, marker caps, painted finger nails, etc.)

What types of webcams are supported?
DirectX 9 DirectShow compliant webcams. Most webcams should work.
We used Microsoft LifeCams VX-3000, VX-6000, and many others.

How can I try out the Touchless demo?
Download the newest version
In the extracted directory, run "\bin\Release\TouchlessDemo.exe"

Where can I find additional instructions?
Download the newest version
Find additional instructions provided in the project "\Documentation\Touchless.rtf"
You can also watch our video walkthrough of creating a drawing application

Who developed the Touchless SDK and Demo?
Touchless was created by Mike Wasserman initially as a college project to provide a cheap way to experience multi-touch capabilities, without expensive hardware or software. Mike joined Microsoft as a developer on the Office Graphics team and continues to work on this project on his own time. Mike received support from Office Labs, which offers assistance to grassroots innovators at Microsoft.

What type of assistance did the Touchless project receive from Office Labs?
Office Labs provided Mike with resources to help design, implement and release the SDK and demo.

Will Touchless be integrated into a Microsoft product?
There are no plans for Touchless to be integrated into a Microsoft product.

How can I get support for Touchless?
You are request support in the Discussions section.

How can I share feedback and ideas on Touchless?
You can share your feedback and ideas in the Discussions section.
You can also vote on feature requests or post your own in the Issue Tracker section.

How can I post my demo here or contribute to Touchless?
Request access by getting in touch with Mike Wasserman

I have a question that isn’t answered here. What should I do?
You can ask your questions in the Discussions section.
You can also get in touch with Mike Wasserman

Updated Wiki: Home

michwass — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:40:38 GMT

Have you seen the news from E3 2009?

What is Touchless?

Simulate multi-"touch" input with M&Ms, tennis balls, or markers
Fun games, demos, community projects, and an extensible demo application
SDK with good documentation, add multi-"touch" to your own applications
Free and open-source project, games, and demos

What's Next?

Learn more and join the community of users and contributors.

Intro Video - Watch a quick pitch and demo
Project Files - Download the SDK and demos
FAQ - Frequently asked questions
Media - Media and press items
Community - Community and projects

Touchless needs you!

Updated Wiki: Home

michwass — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:15:12 GMT

Have you seen the news from E3 2009?

What is Touchless?

Simulate multi-"touch" input with M&Ms and markers
Fun games, demos, extensible demo application
SDK, add multi-touch to your applications
Free and open-source project, games, and demos

What's Next?

Learn more and join the community of users and contributors.

Intro Video - Watch a quick pitch and demo
Project Files - Download the SDK and demos
FAQ - Frequently asked questions
Media - Media and press items
Community - Community and projects

Touchless needs you!

Updated Wiki: Home

michwass — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:04:30 GMT

Have you seen the news from E3 2009?

See Microsoft's Project Natal and Sony's motion controller
With your help we can bring similar experiences to Touchless!

What is Touchless?

Simulate multi-"touch" input with M&Ms and markers
Fun games, demos, extensible demo application
SDK, add multi-touch to your applications
Free and open-source project, games, and demos

What's Next?

Learn more and join the community of users and contributors.

Intro Video - Watch a quick pitch and demo
Project Files - Download the SDK and demos
FAQ - Frequently asked questions
Media - Media and press items
Community - Community and projects

Touchless needs you!

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alexprvn — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:02:22 GMT

can you please add the touchless sdk walkthrough sample video in better quality. everything is in a blurred manner....

Updated Wiki: Home

michwass — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:16:30 GMT

Welcome!

Watch the Touchless video and try the newest demos including the new mouse control demo!
Check out Lucian Wischik's exciting game Stay In The Game and VB sample project!

What is Touchless?

The Touchless SDK is a webcam multi-"touch" object tracking SDK project.

Simulate multi-touch input with M&Ms and markers
Fun games, demos, extensible demo application
SDK, add multi-touch to your applications
Free and open-source project, game, and demos

What's Next?

Learn more and join the community of users and contributors.

Intro Video - Watch a quick pitch and demo
Project Files - Download the SDK and demos
FAQ - Frequently asked questions
Media - Media and press items
Community - Community and projects

Unleash the power of your webcam!

Updated Wiki: FAQ

michwass — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:18:11 GMT

Updated Wiki: Home

michwass — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:53:25 GMT

Welcome!

Watch the Touchless video and try the newest demos including the new mouse control demo!
Check out Lucian Wischik's exciting game Stay In The Game and VB sample project!

What is Touchless?

The Touchless SDK is a webcam multi-"touch" object tracking SDK project.

Simulate multi-touch input with M&Ms and markers
Fun games, demos, extensible demo application
SDK, add multi-touch to your applications
Free and open-source project, game, and demos

What's Next?

Learn more and join the community of users and contributors.

Intro Video - Watch a quick pitch and demo
Project Files* - Download the SDK and demos
FAQ - Frequently asked questions
Media - Media and press items
Community - Community and projects

Unleash the power of your webcam!

Updated Wiki: Community

michwass — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:53:02 GMT

Featured Touchless Users and Community Members

Community Member Lucian Wischik

Community Member Jonathan Synnott (jsynnott)

Community Member Papnkukn

Contributor John Conwell

John wrote the managed version of WebCamLib that was recently commited to our source control. John is interested in NVIDIA CUDA support development.

Contributor Szymon Kobalczyk

Szymon wrote a WPF version of TouchlessLib and TouchlessDemo [project source|http://cid-4c7ec0c2176a0b0d.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Touchless%7C20081028.zip] using Jeremiah Morrill's WPF MediaKit. Szymon is interested in WPF control development, and helping Touchless improve performance and reduce dependencies.

Updated Wiki: Media

michwass — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:51:38 GMT

Touchless Videos

Touchless SDK and Demo - See what Touchless is all about.
Touchless SDK Fair Demo, Aug. '08 - See the Touchless demo booth at Microsoft Office Labs Productivity Fair held in August, 2008.
Touchless SDK Walkthrough Sample - See how we built the WalkthroughSample drawing demo in only 15 minutes using Touchless SDK binaries.

Touchless Quotes

“Like Microsoft Surface and Touchwall, the Touchless software makes it possible to create applications that turn hand gestures and physical objects into an input device like a mouse.” - Erick Schonfeld, TechCruch
"Microsoft lab rats have been in the dungeon cooking up some new software and technology and the results are very cool. I think the innovative side of Microsoft is starting to come out.” - Gates & Jobs: Microsoft and Apple's Epic Battle
“The Touchless project is a good example of Microsoft doing its own experimentation around open source.” - Matt Assay, Cnet
"The Touchless SDK is a set of .Net components that can be used to simulate the gestural interfaces of devices like the iPhone in thin air -- using nothing fancier than an ordinary USB Webcam." - Neil McAllister, Fatal Exception

Updated Wiki: FAQ

michwass — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:48:54 GMT

What is the Touchless SDK?
The Touchless SDK is an open source SDK for .NET applications. It enables developers to create multi-touch based applications using a webcam for input. Color based markers defined by the user are tracked and their information is published through events to clients of the SDK. In a nutshell, the Touchless SDK enables touch without touching.

What is the Touchless Demo?
The Touchless Demo is an open source application that anyone with a webcam can use to experience multi-touch, no geekiness required. The demo was created using the Touchless SDK and Windows Forms with C#.

What does open source mean?
Open source means the source code for the Touchless SDK and Demo is available for anyone to see, to use and to contribute to. For more information on open source check out the Open Source Initiative.

Are there any restrictions to using the Touchless SDK and Demo code?
Yes. Touchless License uses the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL).

Why is Touchless open source?
There is so much potential with Touchless, however Office Labs has limited resources so we would want to encourage anyone to contribute and benefit from this project.

What are the requirements for Touchless?
Windows Vista or Windows XP
Webcam
Color Markers (M&Ms, ends of pens, painted finger nails, etc.)

What types of webcams are supported?
DirectX 9 DirectShow compliant webcams. Most webcams should work.
We used Microsoft LifeCams VX-3000 and VX-6000.

How can I try out the Touchless demo?
Save Touchless 1.0 to your computer
Right click on the compressed folder select Extract All…
Make sure you have a webcam hooked up
Double click TouchlessDemo.exe

How can I build my own Touchless applications?
Save Touchless 1.0 to your computer
Right click on the compressed folder select Extract All…
Follow the instructions provided in Touchless.rtf
You can also watch our video walkthrough of creating a drawing application

Who developed the Touchless SDK and Demo?
Touchless was created by Mike Wasserman initially as a college project to provide a cheap way to experience multi-touch capabilities, without expensive hardware or software. Mike joined Microsoft as a developer on the Office Graphics team and continues to work on this project on his own time. Mike received support from Office Labs, which offers assistance to “weekend coders” at Microsoft.

What type of assistance did the Touchless project receive from Office Labs?
Office Labs provided Mike with resources to help design, implement and release the SDK and demo.

Will Touchless be integrated into a Microsoft product?
There are no plans for Touchless to be integrated into a Microsoft product.

How can I get support for Touchless?
You are request support in the Discussions section.

How can I share feedback and ideas on Touchless?
You can share your feedback and ideas in the Discussions section.
You can also vote on feature requests or post your own in the Issue Tracker section.

How can I post my demo here or contribute to Touchless?
Request access by getting in touch with Mike Wasserman

I have a question that isn’t answered here. What should I do?
You can ask your questions in the Discussions section.
You can also get in touch with Mike Wasserman

Updated Wiki: Home

michwass — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:43:11 GMT

Welcome!

Watch the Touchless video and try the newest demos including the new mouse control demo!
Check out Lucian Wischik's exciting game Stay In The Game and VB sample project!

What is Touchless?

The Touchless SDK is a webcam multi-"touch" object tracking SDK project.

Simulate multi-touch input with M&Ms and markers
Fun games, demos, extensible demo application
SDK, add multi-touch to your applications
Free and open-source project, game, and demos

What's Next?

Learn more and join the community of users and contributors.

Touchless Video - Watch a quick pitch and demo
Touchless Project* - Download the SDK and demos
Touchless FAQ - Frequently asked questions
Touchless Media - Media and press items
Touchless Community - Community and projects

Unleash the power of your webcam!

Updated Wiki: Home

michwass — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:39:29 GMT

Welcome!

Watch the Touchless video and try the newest demos including the new mouse control demo!
Check out Lucian's Touchless SDK game called "Stay In The Game" and VB sample code!

What is Touchless?

The Touchless SDK is a webcam multi-"touch" object tracking SDK project.

Simulate multi-touch input with M&Ms and markers
Fun games, demos, extensible demo application
SDK, add multi-touch to your applications
Free and open-source project, game, and demos

What's Next?

Learn more and join the community of users and contributors.

Touchless Video - Watch a quick pitch and demo
Touchless Project* - Download the SDK and demos
Touchless FAQ - Frequently asked questions
Touchless Media - Media and press items
Touchless Community - Community and projects

Unleash the power of your webcam!