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New
interactive systems and more happy clients from
GestureTek
Spring
2008
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Spring
2008 has seen GestureTek busier than ever. Our
world-leading multi-touch computing solution for
vertical and horizontal surfaces continue to attract
worldwide attention. Our ScreenXtreme immersive digital
signage solution is a big hit with retailers and
advertisers. And we continue to blaze trails in
the field of 3D depth vision.
GestureTek
continues to win accolades from awards programs and
market leaders. Recently, we were recognized by
the analyst firm Gartner Group as a 'Cool Vendor in
Retail.' We were also named a Top Innovator in the
Mobile Innovation Global Awards Competition - Americas
Tournament. Finally, we have been selected as a
finalist in the Ontario Global Traders Awards (OGTA),
Innovation Category. The OGTA Innovation Award,
sponsored by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, recognizes
excellence in applying new or existing technologies to
develop new products or improve existing products.
Winners must demonstrate considerable success in
international markets.
I
encourage you to give GestureTek a call and find out for
yourself why GestureTek is the world leader in
gesture-driven interfaces for interactive surfaces,
signs, displays, devices and games.
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GestureTek
and Pepsi bring motion control technology to the Super
Bowl |
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 GestureTek and
several partners delivered a crowd-pleasing gesture-controlled
interactive gaming system at the Super Bowl to support an
exciting Pepsi promotion. Attendees played the game using
GestureTek's cool HoloTrack Frame touch-free presentation
technology, interacting with dynamic multimedia content by
placing their hand inside a control frame and pointing their
finger at the menu item they want to
select.
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Montana
State University
Goes High Tech with GestureTek's Iluminate
Display |
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 The Montana State
Extended University (MSEU) chose GestureTek's cutting-edge
Illuminate Display to add high-tech pizzazz to their
collaborative multimedia center. The Illuminate Display
is a larger-than-life interactive surface computing
panel. Users access and control dynamic 3D multimedia
content by gesturing with their hand before a display screen
and holding their finger right in front of an icon to select a
menu item.
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Canadian
Journalists get the "Minority Report" Experience with
Illuminate Multi-touch Table |
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Journalists at a
recent Canadian Press Association gala event got to experience
first-hand the incredible interactive multi-touch Illuminate
Table. The table was loaded with dynamic multimedia
video and images of the most significant news events during
the past year. Users were able to make menu selections
by grabbing the icons with their fingertips, or zoom and
rotate images by spreading their fingers or dragging their
palms along the display surface.
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Leading
High-Tech Manufacturer Installs Show-stopping Interactive Wall
using GestureTek's WallFX Technology |
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 Top Silicon
Valley-based branding group Liquid Agency worked with
GestureTek on a custom interactive project for a worldwide
leader in computer component manufacturing. They turned
to GestureTek's WallFX to provide an interactive visual
display system using moving binary computer codes falling down
the wall, much like the opening sequence of The
Matrix. Viewers approaching this
display find the numbers bouncing off their shadows and
collecting on their shoulders like rain, for an
attention-getting and memorable
experience!
The exhibit was
used in a museum showcasing the company's history.
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GestureTek's
Illuminate Display Powers Icelandic Visitors'
Centre |
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When
Sense, one of Iceland's leading
IT service providers, partnered with the Hellisheidar
Hydrotheremo Power Plant to create
a spectacular interactive display for their
Visitors' Centre, they turned to GestureTek's Illuminate
Display as their blueprint. The result? One of the
grandest and most visually appealing surface computing screens
in Iceland. A 130-inch
panel is built right into the plant's wall, showing off
dynamic digital content that multiple users can simultaneously
control by simple pointing gestures, with all the technology
hidden from view.
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GestureTek
Creates Interactive "Edutainment" for Telus World
of Science - Calgary |
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GestureTek's
WallFX and GroundFX visual display systems turn ordinary
floors and walls into interactive edutainment that spark
people's imaginations and inspire learning. Applications for
the Telus World of Science - Calgary include an
interactive solar system where planetary movement is
controlled by the user's body motion, and an interactive
entomology display where users can magnify an image of a bug
to over 100 times its actual size with the wave of a
hand.
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Intel's
Interactive Table Game Featuring GestureTek's Motion Control
Technology Gets Crowd Powered Up |
 Crowds in malls
and trade shows throughout
India got all
powered up over Intel's new Centrino Duo Processor, thanks to
the exciting touch-free 'Intel Centrino Air Hockey' game
created by GestureTek and delivered on a custom interactive
motion-activated surface computing table. To create even more
hype and to capture people's attention, the audio/visual
output was sent to multiple LCD screens throughout the
premises. GestureTek's interactive tables can be
configured with multitouch
interactivity.
Read
Intel
Centrino business case. View MultiTouch
Table video.
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GestureTek
unveils Multi-touch Enhancements at
InfoComm |
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"Our
recent multi-touch enhancements further strengthen
GestureTek's key advantage over other multi-touch providers,"
says GestureTek's President and Co-Founder Vincent John
Vincent, referring to key technological improvements unveiled
this week at the InfoComm tradeshow in Las Vegas, Nevada. The multi-touch
Illuminate Table is now available turnkey in a variety of
sizes, with GestureTek's full library of over 70 captivating
special effects. The technology can now be readily
delivered on additional surfaces such as retail windows,
multi-touch walls and floors, and even freestanding
floor-to-ceiling screens. Hardware has been further
configured for greater performance in varying ambient lighting
conditions.
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