Multi-Touch Trackpad Gaming Demonstrated on MacBook
Illusion Labs, developer of the popular iPhone game Touchgrind, has posted a video demonstrating a Mac version of the game utilizing the multi-touch capabilities of the MacBook's trackpad.
The developer describes it as tech demo and hasn't committed to releasing it. Illusion Labs is the same developer who demoed their iPhone games on a large multi-touch table in 2009.
All of Apple's notebooks now contain a multi-touch trackpad that could be used for such purposes. In fact, Apple's multi-touch trackpads can track up to 11 distinct multi-touch presses.
The developer describes it as tech demo and hasn't committed to releasing it. Illusion Labs is the same developer who demoed their iPhone games on a large multi-touch table in 2009.
All of Apple's notebooks now contain a multi-touch trackpad that could be used for such purposes. In fact, Apple's multi-touch trackpads can track up to 11 distinct multi-touch presses.
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27 months ago
Wow, the trackpad is becoming so useful nowadays. I think it's already been utilized as a drawing pad before too.
27 months ago
The good thing with a trackpad is that it can use absolute positioning, which allows for drawing and lots of things other than just a relatively moving mouse!
27 months ago
I made a post last june that the app store would soon make it's was on to all of the other mac's and I was shot down. THis is great for the Apple and the consumer, over 100,000 Apps now on your Mac! :D
27 months ago
Eleven fingers? This is something new. I'm guessing it's for the occasional Dr Seuss character so they don't feel left out?
27 months ago
I've always wondered how long it'd take for them to start implementing the multi-touch pads to a broader range purposes.
27 months ago
I made a post last june that the app store would soon make it's was on to all of the other mac's and I was shot down. THis is great for the Apple and the consumer, over 100,000 Apps now on your Mac! :D
I agree! I am learning Obj-C and the principles of iPhone app development are fairly easily to move to the Mac. I expect that this could be the first of many Mac apps along these lines.
27 months ago
Someday soon the trackpad will be a fully functional multitouch display.
Perhaps a display that exactly mirrors the size and resolution of an iPhone in landscape mode?? haha I'm sure the sizes (in terms of dimensions) aren't that far off now anyways. I'm away from my MBP but just from memory, looking at my iphone in landscape is probably pretty close to the curent size of the trackpad.
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