One of my colleagues came up with the name 'NUIverse', and since a major motivation behind creating this app was the opportunity to explore the use of Natural User Interface (NUI), and the name is a nice play on the spelling of 'Universe' the name has stuck.
While there are still a heap of tweaks and new features on my TODO list, I though it was a good time to share a short video captured from the app.
Video 1. NUIverse on Microsoft Surface 2.0.
Note that rather than using an overhead camera, I used FRAPS to capture video. Touch-points are highlighed as translucent circular markers.
Credits:
- Data provided by NASA
- Music by iStockphoto®, ©AudioQuattro, Sky
- Battlestar Galactica models (based on new TV series) by Coxxon
Update: I thought I'd also include a link to the other video mentioned in the comments, which films the app being used rather than capturing the screen.
This video has now moved, so I've udated the link below.
Video 2. NUIverse on Microsoft Surface 2.0.
Comments
Amazing video, loved the Battlestar ship.
We have a 65" touch screen on loan which the children are currently, exploring and playing with. What are the chances of borrowing a demo version of this software to try?
Thanks
Really outstanding Demo, and excellent write-up!
Bookmarked!
CPU/GPU-specs & Rendering-time?
Hi Seb, this was all captured in real-time, running at 60+frames/sec on a Microsoft Surface 2.0 device. AMD HD6750M GPU, Athlon X2 Dual-Core 245e (2.9GHz) CPU, see http://www.samsunglfd.com/product/feature.do?modelCd=SUR40.
Only you have in Demo video wrong Earth's rotation and shadow moving. I think it's important for official advertising.
Best regards.
Andrey from Moscow Planetarium.
Thanks for letting me know - you're absolutely right, and down to an unforunate error it's in the video :(
It's rotating the right way now :)
Best regards,
Dave
I was wondering if you currently have a demo build ready?
Best regards,
Franklyn G
The new touch controls in W8 would be great for apps like this. Maybe a 'lite' version to accompany the big Surface 'gun'?
But awesome work, watched it again right after the first time. Love it. :-D
amazing stuff! is there a way to contact you via email? (not to spam! i'm a microsoft vendor in the u.s. and have a question for you). thanks!
Found via the 'surface' channel on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzoXPav7uzs) where you have 108k views (versus the 6k views on the above video).
Thanks
With Celestia i did the same things for 6 years with 15GB of material more and an 3D astronomical reality in all Galaxy...
You could take Celestia,put it on,change the control interface for multy-touch and you had just finished, add the sky's view from selected body and you would have a better product than Celestia,Distant Sun,Stellarium all togheter...
Especially because this video looks so incredibly performant, while anything we tried so far, like the standard Bing Search app, is incredibly sluggish. Seems we're not the only ones with that experience.
The best I've seen on surface! But... seen in a video, not in the real surface.
Are you doing it just for fun or for a client? I'd so like to have a release of your app. Of course if you are allowed to share it.
I've had a lot of fun putting this project together, however as it's something I'm doing in my own time, it only moves forward very slowly as I've a busy day-job.
I'm still trying to work through options for distributing the project.
Good Morning. I would like to echo everyones comments about what an impressive application this is for the Surface 2.0. Excellent work. I would also like to jump on the bandwagon about if and when you would be able to release this application, either for free or for $$. I lead an IT Innovation lab for Biogen Idec, and I just purchased 2 of the V2.0 units to develop use cases for manufacturing, R&D labs, and lobby kiosks. I am looking for applications to run on the units that show off its capabilities to the various business units, and your app is an excellent way to do that. Please let me know if and when you release this app for download or purchase.
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