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CityWall Interactive Multitouch Display Now Has a Glorious 3D Interface [Multitouch]
CityWall Interactive Multitouch Display Now Has a Glorious 3D Interface [Multitouch]
CityWall has been around for a little bit now, offering a giant multitouch display of maps and other service-oriented features. But now the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology just launched their new 3D UI for the interactive display, which makes it look super futuristic and awesome. ...
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CityWall
citywall.org — CityWall is a large multi-touch display installed in a central location in Helsinki which acts as a... collaborative and playful interface for the everchanging media landscape of the city. The new interface launched in October 2008 also allows working ... (more) CityWall
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3D Interface
Tech Blog — ... The CityWall multi-touch 3D interface features "groups of files that are represented as spheres, which can be manipulated in every which way." Video after the break. You can even look at the photo thumbnails inside the sphere "from behind." Though the demo is thin, it shows some really interesting ideas at play. [via Gizmodo]

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