The Modernization in Interactive Technology

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Layton Judd

Interactive design technology has grown by leaps and bounds over the last one decade. interactive_tableThe technology has a multitude of applications in areas such as interactive learning, entertainment, gaming and interactive interior designs for homes and offices. Interactive technology is now being deployed extensively by businesses that offer interior design home or interior design office services. Since the technology finally has got applications that can now be consumed by homeowners or businesses, many product and research manufacturing companies are now prepared to increase their R&D spends too. Therefore, we’re likely to see better support and software systems being launched in the market every year. Like computing devices, applications and operating systems, new versions will most likely be backward compatible and help early users to use advanced features by investing a little on upgrading the system.

High Definition Computer Graphics

inamo-restaurant-by-blacksheep-4Interactive technology has grown to its present state particularly because modern day computing systems are capable of supporting high definition computer graphics. Conception of interactive products used in restaurants, clubs, offices, homes, hotels, shops and bars wouldn’t have been possible had there been no graphic support. New age graphics offer high-end interaction and entertainment. HD graphic capabilities in turn are supported by advanced processors.

Methods of Interaction Analysis

The whole point of having an interactive interior design for a home or office is to increase the interaction with various objects such as mirrors, windows, tables etc. Over the years, multi-touch surface technology has played a pivotal role in helping researchers refine various methods by which even small gestures of users could be interpreted accurately. The interaction technology, like any other field, is going to get better with each passing year but its current applications in home and office interior designs are amazing enough to please anyone who has an inclination towards technology, modern living and digital applications. Interactive interior designers of the day can masterfully design living or working experience beyond an ordinary human’s imagination by using in-wall controls, multi-touch surfaces, mobile devices and tablets. Anyone can implement new age interior design concepts without having to shell out thousands of dollars!

Tangible Interaction

Interactive technology, as depicted in sci-fi movies decades ago, could become useful for imagehomeowners and business organizations only when it offered the benefit of tangible interaction. Today, interactive products are fast becoming an essential component of any interior design office project. These products offer highly tangible interaction by enhancing not only entertainment but security and convenience too. With interactive technology, it is possible to integrate audio, video, lighting, security, communication and anything else seamlessly. Thus, the interior design of a home or office is limited by only imagination and nothing else!

Interactive technology based applications are now penetrating markets all over the world. Although business owners looking to increase customer engagement were among the first to embrace this new technological wave, homeowners too have received interior home design ideas based on such technologies quite well. The technology and its applications, like mobiles and computing devices will continue to get better every year.

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Interactive Touch Screen Menu Waitering – What You Should Know

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Layton Judd

Powered by ultra-modern multi-touch interactive surface technology, interactive menu systems are now taking the hospitality sector by storm. Bars, clubs, restaurants, hotels – intelligent multi-touch surfaces are being used everywhere for interactive waitering.

touchscreen_menuThe dining and entertainment industry players in different parts of the world are now deploying interactive touch screen menu systems to provide appealing interfaces to their customers to not only entertain them but also maximize their revenues. Read on to know more about interactive waitering:

  1. With a touch screen menu, customers can place their orders without having to speak to a waiter. Customers can easily browse through the list of available items and even check how a particular food item (when served) looks like. A well customized system allows customers to see how their full-meal would look like before they finally make up their mind on what to eat.
  2. Customers can choose their language and browse through the touch screen menu in a language they fully understand. Hotels, restaurants, bars and clubs in multi-lingual communities can especially benefit from his feature as they often struggle with the communication gap between waiters and customers.
  3. After finishing their meals, customers can quickly order a drink or dessert. A bill too can be requested quickly. The need to signal the waiter, bartender or any other staff member is thus eliminated. The system can also be customized to receive credit card payments from customers. Thus, customers can have their personal space, free from all common disturbances.pro8
  4. The networked screen displaying the menu and various entertaining graphics also allows customers to interact with each other! As soon as customers take their seats, they have something in front of them to stay occupied.
  5. Kids or anyone else can play games on the interactive surface, browse through day’s headlines or just check out the status of orders they placed through the digital menu. For many customers, a slightly increased waiting time is a turn-off even if it happens just once in many weeks. With interactive table flattops, business owners need not worry about such issues anymore.
  6. Many interactive waitering systems have integrated audio-video playback facilities too. Thus, customers can watch videos or listen to songs of their choice. In other words, the interactive bar or restaurant menu not only works as a waiter but also a payment counter, jukebox, video player & TV.
  7. The restaurant, bar or club can dynamically promote and advertise its special deals and offerings to customers through interactive animations, graphics and audio-visuals.

Touchscreen_Menu (2)With an interactive waitering system powered by an interactive touch screen menu, customers in a restaurant or hotel are never left waiting. They know what they’re going to eat or drink and the possibility of someone getting bored due to a delayed order is eliminated as well. Considering the cost of deploying these modern-day interactive systems, these are a must-have for any business in the hospitality sector looking to get more customers and retain the ones they’ve already.

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3D Floor Projection to floor your man/gal this Valentine’s day

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Layton Judd

The lover’s day – Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Everyone I know, in love or not [though they believe they are in love (at least for the 14 February)], is planning a party with their Valentine’s on those interactive floors of the discos etc. There are others who don’t have a Valentine and are sitting self-centered, waiting for a miracle to happen in their lives.

Now, amid all these, there are also a few guys and gals, who, either governed by social stigma, or their own shyness, are not in a shape to take their Valentine’s out on a date to a discotheque or a pub.

How about transforming your own home into a discotheque this Valentine, to relive yourself of all the hassles of public drama in the pubs etc.? Sounds a great idea to us, you say you’re convinced too? Well then, we are on the same page. Now, there is a chance you’ve transformed your apartment into a disco on numerous occasions in the past with lots of flicker lighting, great DJ console playing your favorite tracks, coupled with some extraordinary food, hmmm!

We know, you’re thinking how you are going to change all this to make it more exciting and different. Well, we are pleased to tell you that this time you have the option of taking home interactive floor projectors to convert your floor in the house into interactive floor worth drooling over with simple 3D floor projections.

Now think, wouldn’t it be so exciting and inviting if your living room floor could become a huge interactive display – something that the discos so boast of? Just think how pleasing it would be to see the love of your life watch the projected floor and notice the series of patterns that change as he/she walks on the floor. The expression on his/her face will be beyond words we guarantee. Valentine’s Day is already the most exciting day for your love.

See the delight on the your lover’s face as the floor projection invites you both to play, swirl or dance on it – it’s up to you. The interactive floor projection theater (the setup) also projects 3D images, which make you feel as if you were actually on the waves (of water in projected on the walls) or floating in the clouds (if clouds are projected). We don’t believe there can be something more personal and delightful you can do to make your Valentine feel special.

So what is interactive floor projection?

The Floor Projection Theater is a setup of projector and camera, which when installed, projects interactive images on the floor. The camera tracks person’s position and changes the projected images based on the movement and position of the person. The floor projection thus transforms an ordinary floor into an exciting and entertaining interactive floor. Available in different sizes the interactive floor projectors let users customize size of the floor projection depending on the space.

Setup and maintenance

Interactive floor projection systems are mostly plug and play and very easy to install. Many of these interactive floor projection systems are three dimensional, which add to the user experience. The project systems come with wireless function, which make it very easy for even non-technical users to install and maintain.

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Interactive mirrors: new way of life

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Layton Judd

Mirrors have always been an important part of our life. For most of us they are the only medium of interaction especially in the world of solitary confinement. It would not be an exaggeration to say that we spend a substantial portion of our lives in bathrooms and kitchens. With the introduction of interactive multi-touch mirrors the life has almost changed for all of us. The technology has almost certainly changed the way we interact with the world around. Our life has become more interactive and spending time in bathroom and kitchen has become all the more interesting.

What is an Interactive multi-touch mirror?

It is a mirror made up of touch sensitive surface that possesses a variety of enterprising and interactive content and applications like graphics, videos and many more. The mirror comes up with these innovative features as soon as it is turned on and moves back into an ordinary mirror when powered off.

The future for interactive mirror is surely very rosy as is the present. Let’s have a look into the area of its impact.

  • Bathroom: Apart from anything else, the bathrooms are turned into the real hotspots in the house. As soon as the interactive mirror is powered on, the applications bundled with the product take the forefront and greet the person with a new feature every morning. The clock-timers, camera-flashes and sound-recording can make your stay in the bathroom all the more fascinating. It would not be an overstatement to term the bathroom with an interactive mirror as a smart-bathroom with all the features of a smartphone. The only worry is regarding the over-stay in bathroom space by your family members.
  • Retail: The technique at present is creating serious music in the electronics retail market across the world. The number of queries related to the product is phenomenal. Retailers around the world are using this innovative technology to project the images of various items to the customers. For e.g. retailers are employing interactive mirrors to display the items present in their show room like clothes, shoes, bags electronic equipments in the shopping centers and malls in 2D and 3D form.

Benefits:

  • The retailers have been benefitted immensely by using the interactive mirrors as a display medium for their products. It helps a lot in saving on advertising costs. It resulting in increasing more footfalls in the shopping stores and enquiries related to the product.
  • Experiencing the technological journey of such advancements to each and every corner of the house is no doubt interesting.
  • Customers around the world term the experience as ‘very satisfying and informative.’ Presently, customers can decide on the available alternatives on pair of trousers by just browsing through the touch screen interactive surface. In short, purchasing experience of the customers has improved by leaps and bounds.
  • The experience of watching a 3D movie on the interactive mirror is something unmatched by any standards.

In short,the whole new world of interactive mirror has made the world shrink further and made it a much better and entertaining place to live in.

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High Performance Multi Touch Video Wall Systems

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Layton Judd

Businesses around the globe are taking every step necessary to engage their target audience. The competition is fierce and every player in the market wishes to make the best use of technology, available human resources and innovative marketing mix. In metropolitans, almost every medium or large scale business organization is now contemplating the use of interactive video wall systems to attract, engage and retain customers.

What are multi touch video walls?

Multi-touch video walls utilize touch sensor technologies. These video walls allow multiple people to interact with different objects on the screen simultaneously. The video wall intuitively interprets gestures of users and helps them interact with graphic, textual, audio or video content on the screen. While some business organizations use these video walls in conference halls, others put interactive video walls to use by planning a customer collaboration strategy. The latter has been tried and tested effectively by several companies over the last 1 or 2 years.

Multi Touch Video Wall

Why use interactive video walls?

Interactive multi-touch video walls are the outcome of a number of revolutionary technologies and scientific principles. Here is how a business organization can possibly use them:

  • Create a lasting impact at a trade fair, business exhibition or any other event. These video walls can help your organization to attract executives, officials, researchers, salesmen and other people easily.
  • These interactive walls are custom designed by a service provider. Depending upon the specific needs of your business organization, you can go for readymade templates or ask for custom designs. In most cases, vendors or service providers have dozens of templates for different uses.
  • Video walls offer sufficient surface area where a large number of users can interact with targeted content at the same time. While one user can browse through the list of products, another one can place an order, for example. In the conference hall, one executive can browse through a graph while the others may zoom on an online map to locate a building or a client site.
  • Supporting software solutions are easily available. Organizations that provide video wall solutions usually offer complete solutions. Therefore, once you’ve made the decision to use this ultra-modern technology, you need not approach multiple companies for equipment, setup, software licensing, customization and on-site or remote training.
  • Contrary to the popular belief, these interactive video walls are not susceptible to breakage. They’re quite strong and many service providers even provide scratch proof glass walls capable of resisting even intentional scratches at a slightly higher cost.

Businesses should start using interactive video walls as soon as possible!

When social networking websites got popular about a decade ago, millions of business owners worked on creating strong online presence on these platforms. Today, high end multi touch video wall systems are also disrupting the market in the same way other technologies did few years ago. Business organizations that still continue to ignore these new technologies and applications will probably have some big challenges in future.

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Multi Touch Screen Coffee tables: A new addition to geeky homes

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Layton Judd

A lot can happen over coffee, and this thought is finding greater relevance in modern times, when furniture like your coffee table is becoming more high tech. The latest in such technological advancements includes the multi touch coffee tables that are available in different sizes, designs and configurations.

Tables with light illuminations, LED lights, gaming consoles might have allured you, but never proved to be as useful as the multi touch coffee tables are proving to be. It’s like having your personal computer or laptop, but with a much larger interface, installed on the surface of your coffee table.

These coffee tables generally have a glass top, on which the touch screen system is installed. You can easily view pictures, videos, prepare presentations, view PDFs, play games, create 3D models, surf the internet, check mails, and do almost everything you can do on your laptop or PC.

coffee-table

coffee-table

Considering how we use coffee tables, these multi touch screen table top are designed with high endurance capacity. They are resistive to wear and tear, resistive against water, and can easily handle multiple people using it at the same time. This means that you can actually place your tea, coffee and eatables on the screen while you and your family and friends enjoy games, watch movies, etc.

Businesses have already found a great opportunity in touch screen solutions. Video walls, multi touch bars surfaces, interactive floor projections; all of them have found a place in various industries like retail, hospitality, and more, and now it’s time to cater to the household market, especially all the geeks, to have a home that is in full sync with latest technologies.

Coffee tables are definitely a good idea. When everyone in the house is busy with their smartphones and laptops, you can easily entertain yourself or work on the multi touch coffee tables. Even entertaining guests become more exciting with them. Indulge in talks, or play games together, while you enjoy your usual cup of coffee.

coffee_table

coffee_table

These tables also find an important commercial use, at restaurants and cafes. Keeping guests engaged while their food is being served is now easily possible with the modern coffee tables that high tech. Of course this may also mean that long waiting queues of people will have to wait outside for their turn. And even this seems to be all the more good in light of inviting more people.

Even lunges at various waiting centers like airport terminals, and hotels can keep people engaged with these. They allow multiple to use them simultaneously. This is one reason why most people believe that multi touch screen solutions will soon change the concepts of social interaction, where technology will bring people closer, and allow them to share ideas and thoughts on the spur of the movement.

Vendors already supplying such tables are offering customized solutions for your homes. You can choose from several coffee table designs available or order one mentioning your precise requirements.

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Futuristic Touchscreen Devices

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Layton Judd

A touchscreen Smartphone or tablet is something we all are quiet well versed with. We all posses either of these, and now the market is all set for the launch of touchscreen laptops. The limitless number of possibilities that touchscreen technology can offers is in fact opening the doors for newer opportunities, and its results have already started to show.

Be it healthcare, entertainment, retail or any other business, they all can in some ways leverage from the various touch screen devices that are being launched in the market. Companies like Interactive Interiors, Australia, are among such companies that have already forayed into manufacturing newer futuristic devices to help businesses grow. They have a wide range of new age devices like the touch screen floor projections, multi-touch coffee tables, interactive bar services, and many other products that are based on touch screen technology.

There are many reasons why touch screen technology is becoming popular with every passing day. Simply sliding you’re your fingers over a surface to generate hoards of information, completely eliminating the use of keyboards, and mouse is the first advantage.

touch-screen-mirror

touch-screen-mirror

Touch screens also allow for better management of space. Constricting places are creating a need for us to have computing surfaces that can be used anywhere in the offices, shops, or even at homes. And, while iPads and tablets have already become household names, the future sees bigger surfaces, like table tops, wall mirrors and even floors converting into computing surfaces. All thanks to the touchscreen technology.

The entertainment and hospitality industry as we see are the first in line for taking advantage of these emerging trends of using interactive touchscreen technology. They now have a new tool with which they can keep all guests entertained. For example, the latest in line interactive bar surfaces have are already in demand. Guests can play games on the multi touch surfaces while waiting for their drinks to be served, or simply play with glasses around that create ripples in the surface, and similar other patterns.

For retailers too these touch screen devices can prove handy. Shoppers can simply click on the wall touchscreens and have projections of clothes, bedding, and many other products that are difficult to put on display due to shortage of space.  And who knows in the near future we might even try clothes on virtually without having to change them by simply touching a few buttons on the screen.

Even at home the touch screen technology can work wonders. Imagine having your dining table, or even the living room table integrated with a touch screen surfaces. You can keep your guests entertained or even write papers, or prepare presentations, all sitting at the table.

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House wives can get touch mirrors affixed in their kitchen and watch recipe videos while they cook, or simply check their mails, indulge in online shopping, or even remain it touch with their social network on the internet.

On first imagining, all these things look rather movie like, but in fact all those bizarre futuristic movies that you’ve seen, will soon set the stage for reality, converting everything around into high tech computing devices.

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Businesses Welcome Interactive Floor Projection in Australia

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Layton Judd

Consider stepping foot on a floor that’s displaying some interesting patterns or funny pictures. What if, as you step forward on the floor, patterns begin to change and water bubbles or tiny pebbles blow out from all points where your shoes touch the floor, rolling farther down to the end of the floor. Or, even more exciting, you can ‘literally’ air kick virtual balls displayed on the floor and let the opponent kick it back to you!

That’s how interesting interactive floor projection technology really is!

The interactive floor technology, as it is popularly known, may sound a bit boring if you just go through ordinary specifications of interactive projection applications. However, if you see these applications at work, you’d know how exciting and useful they can be! In fact, it can be pretty hard to resist deploying the technology inside your company premises or somewhere else once you get to experience the interactive technology! It’s that good, really. Most probably, many businesses in your area have already deployed such systems.

Engagement is the key!

Every business intends to engage its existing or prospective customers in all ways possible. It is through engagement that a business creates a ‘lasting impression’ in the minds of prospects or clients. While a smiling receptionist and welcoming salesman are no doubt essential for attracting and retaining customers, interactive floor systems too can help in branding and advertising through increased customer interaction.

Imagine having the interactive floor projection technology in place in various aisles of a shopping mall. As soon as customers step foot on the target floor area, a pre-designed application can start interacting with them. The application can expose targeted content, such as a product or service, to the customer in an interesting way. The best thing about making use of interactive technology for branding and advertising is that customers start participating on their own. The interactive system reacts as soon as a customer approaches and thereafter, it reacts according to the ‘natural’ inputs provided by him or her.

Not all interactive floor systems are the same!

A large number of companies have launched interactive floor projection systems in Australia over the last few months. In one way or the other, all companies make use of the same gesture based tracking technology to design and develop such interactive systems. However, the total value offered by various service providers in terms of content, specifications, templates and motion sensitivity can vary a great deal. Therefore, it is very important to make a detailed study of the total package offered by a company before making a final decision.

The digitally smooth and surreal experience provided by interactive floor systems can be simply unforgettable for many people. It is possible that the technology would become very common over the next 5 to 10 years. It is the first mover’s advantages that small and medium scale businesses can now get by embracing this wonderful floor projection technology to attract or retain customers.

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Multi Touch Screen Solutions

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Layton Judd

Many spheres of our modern lives use multi touch screen technology as the means of interaction. Multi touch screen solutions are far more intuitive than buttons or dials, and this is the reason why more and more people are exploring its commercial viability. From offices, homes, supermarkets, casinos and restaurants, they all want to exploit this user-friendly technology to grab the attention of a larger audience.

We’re all familiar with touch screen smartphones, tablets, music players, and now it’s time for touch screen tables, mirrors, glass, floor projections, bar surfaces, and much more to form the next generation league for touch screens. These surfaces remain the same in dimensions, with the addition of a thin computing layer over them. Multiple users can then manipulate the touch screen and work on applications, presentations, and a wide array of computing activities.

Multi Touch Screen Solutions

Multi Touch Screen Solutions

Microsoft was the first market player that came up with the concept of multi touch tables way back in 2007. They called the first touch table PixelSense, which was aimed for commercial use in public settings. Such multi touch screens are designed to interact with several people, all at the same time, therefore, allowing people to share information more quickly and conveniently.

When we particularly talk about interactive tables, the first thing that strikes the mind is that tables if placed in public places, offices, or even homes, will be victim to high traffic, and therefore, to make the technology a success, two things become imperative- resilience and performance.

Horizontal surfaces will always take abuse, sometimes accidental, and sometimes malicious. This is the reason that their screen needs to have the capacity to perform optimally even when there is high degree of wear and tear. Also, the second problem, which they might face, is that of false touch. Tables are surfaces where people will rest on their elbows, place cups and plates, and do a whole lot of other stuff, which might give a delusional sense of touch to the device.

Multi Touch Screen Solutions

Multi Touch Screen Solutions

These devices are deigned to overcome both these problems. On the one hand these surfaces are rough and tough, and resistive to wear and tear, and second, the touch technology enables the surface to differentiate between the various kinds of touch, without interfering its use by several people simultaneously.

Rigorous research and advancements are already in process to make this technology more affordable, and also make it resilient to all sort of wear and tear, including liquid ingression, and other dust related problems.

Multi Touch Screen Solutions

Multi Touch Screen Solutions

Inevitably, touch screen interactive surfaces are drawing more and more people because of its high collaborative capacities. It is rather convenient for users to club around a table in board room meetings, restaurants, and home for exchanging useful information with one another. Touch screen features like pinch zooms, rotating, pinch scrolling, can be highly beneficial and also allow simultaneous users to take advantage from it.

Imagine not having laptops, and tablets, but simply working on table tops by sliding across your fingers, pinching, squeezing, text, images, and graphics of all types. The technology is already being showcased by many businesses that have got touch interactive screens installed, and soon these will also be available for home use at affordable prices.

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Interactive floor projection and how we are benefiting

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Layton Judd

When you want to impress someone visiting your home or office, one cool way could be by installing an interactive floor projection system. Floor projection is a video-based projection installation which involves the use of a projector, infrared technology and camera placed together to project various interactive images.

The projector and the camera track a human’s position and change the projected images based on the movement and position of the human(s). Being a low-barrier installation, the interactive flooring lets anyone physically able or not to interact with the projections on the floor.

Interactive floor projection is thus a kind of technology which transforms any normal floor surface into an interactive surface. When people stand over the projected area, their bodies are recognized, by recognizing the movement and gestures the whole projection system can change and alter to different levels of interaction for the users.

Size, dimensions and the content of the projection can be tailored to the needs and requirements of clients – this easy and dynamical adjustment offered by interactive floor projections has made this technology so impressive and widespread.

Video-based interactive floor projections have showed up just everywhere in the past few years. Owing to the price and the size of the floor projectors falling, interactive floorings have become a near common site for projecting messages and games etc on any floor type.

Interactive floor projections have made it possible for us to look on the floor and see a world of fun unfold right in front of us. Interactive flooring has transformed once boring floor surfaces into new digital playgrounds on which a person can move about – the person’s actions trigger an exciting visual reaction – making it possible for people to play, dance or read interactive messages etc.

Citing the interest in interactive floor projections of late, it is worth knowing that applications of interactive floorings are endless. To list a few, these may include games, animation, advertising, events and promotions, hotels, restaurants, education etc. Because the interactive floors will be like some computer of a whiteboard, with lots on interactive content, it will be very easy for the people to understand and use it.

Considering the possibilities interactive floor projection can have in real world scenario, the entire projections system is made such that it can be used on any type of suitable floor surface to transform it from dull flooring to inviting and interactive display. For this the interactive floor projections have a range of moving and interactive images and videos with graphics, which can be created as bespoke package to your needs. Whether you demand a football pitch or an interactive fish pond or a dance floor – interactive floor projection system will deliver to your needs.

Simple, fun and educational video-graphics and images can easily be created using interactive floor projection system. The system can be installed in either a portable or a permanent way and can be used to create compelling applications tailored to your needs. Imagine kicking around a 2D ball in the beautiful game of soccer on a fully customizable interactive graphic pitch or walking in a garden of blooming floors in the walkway!

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