Saturday, October 18, 2008

Multi-touch at DreamHack Winter 2008: Wish I could go!

DreamHack is known in the Guiness Book of Records as the world's largest LAN party and computer festival. The record set ii 20 10,544 computers and 11,060 attendees. The Winter 2008 DreamHack event will be held at the Elmia exhibit center in Jonkoping, Sweden, November 27-30.

http://mythicmktg.fileburst.com/war/us/media/newsletter/2007_12/dreamhack1.jpg


NUI (Natural User Interface) will be at DreamHack Winter 2008. For more information about NUI's upcoming events, see Harry van der Veen's multi-touch blog. (Harry is the co-founder of the NUI-Group and the CEO of Natural User Interface)

Here is a picture of an interactive multi-touch table they demonstrated at Cityscape Dubai 2008:


Natural User Interface is collaborating with Lulea Tekniska University on the upcoming projects.

Comment:

I gather from the pictures that DreamHack started out as a "guy" thing. The pictures below are from the GRIN website. (GRIN is a game developer company located in Barcelona, Spain, and in Stockhom & Gothenburg, Sweden.)



http://www.grin.se/img/uploads/Image/Marketing/DreamhackW2007/dreamhack_stolen.jpg

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