New From Office Labs: Touchless

sarahintampa — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:27:00 GMT

A new project from Office Labs has just been unveiled: Touchless, a multitouch software app and SDK that lets you create and experience multi-touch applications of your own...with no need for expensive hardware or software. The way it does that is with the use of a standard computer webcam and colored markers that are defined by the user. These “markers” can be anything you want – just so long as you can hold them in your hands. Or, heck, the markers can even be your fingers themselves.

Sound familiar? Probably because it’s very much like Cam-Trax, which I mentioned earlier this year. The difference is that unlike Cam-Trax, with Touchless there is an open source application and SDK available, which anyone can see, use, and contribute to.

The app features four demos of the technology: 1) Snake – where you control a snake with a marker, 2) Defender – an up to 4-player pong game, 3) Map – where you can rotate, zoom and move a map with 2 markers, and 4) Draw - where you can draw with a marker.

Check out Touchless in action in the video below:

Get the ODF Office Plugin Now

sarahintampa — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:49:00 GMT

You may have heard the news about the upcoming Service Pack for Microsoft Office 2007, that will let you access more document formats like the XML Paper Specification (XPS), Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.5, PDF/A and Open Document Format (ODF) v1.1. The ODF format is becoming quite popular these days because it's a free and open file format for documents. With the upcoming SP2, available in early 2009, you'll be able to open, edit, and save documents using ODF and save into the other formats, including PDF. However, if you don't want to wait, you can go ahead an grab the ODF plugin now from Sun's website. This plugin is also compatible with older versions of Office, including Office XP, 2003, and 2000. (via gHacks)

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New From Office Labs: Touchless

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