Gizmodo and Engadget both have articles on this LCD touch screen and both show a picture of Google Earth being demonstrated.
If you look past the cute girl, you can see Google Earth
52-inch Multi-touch Screen - World’s Largest Multi-touch Display
LG.Philips LCD’s 52-inch multi-touch panel for public and interactive displays is not only the world’s largest, it is also one of the most responsive, able to recognize input from either a touch of a finger or more precise writing instruments. It uses an infrared image sensor that gives it the ability to recognize two separate touch points as well as gestures. It boasts some of the industry’s highest specifications, with a 90 Hz touch response time, 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution and a light transmission rate of 95 to 100 percent.
What caught my eye was how thin this unit is and there is no hacking here to get a touch table. We could be seeing this technology explode here in a few months.
18 responses so far ↓
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J Wallis
// Dec 31, 2007 at 8:42 am
I’ll only take it if I can get the mouse pointer too.
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Lefty
// Dec 31, 2007 at 9:05 am
Mouse pointer? What about the girl?
I’m impressed though. Looks much thinner than the ESRI touch table though I haven’t seen that one in a year so maybe they are thinner as well.
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JRigs
// Dec 31, 2007 at 9:12 am
We know what caught your eyes….
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Al Pascual
// Dec 31, 2007 at 9:33 am
Microsoft Surface already has a system like that in production: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
Cheers
Al
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mfd
// Dec 31, 2007 at 9:43 am
I really like the raised relief map. The mountains are really large and seem to just burst out on the screen -
oops, sorry, the mountains were not on the screen
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Kerry
// Dec 31, 2007 at 10:03 am
Yes, you can almost sense the relief. Definitely having the urge to create contours…. what interval..?
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J Wallis
// Dec 31, 2007 at 11:15 am
Why don’t we ever have demonstrators like this at the ESRI conferences? All I ever encounter are these crotchety old guys who brag about being around since ArcCAD. Come on..throw me a bone..er something.
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Bill
// Dec 31, 2007 at 11:27 am
@J Wallis
Apparently you weren’t there a couple of years ago when Thales had the demonstrators and served beer in the exhibit hall. Talk about generating foot traffic!
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J Wallis
// Dec 31, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Yeah, someone would have to get me drunk to use their equipment, so that makes sense.
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Bill
// Dec 31, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Excellent point!
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Rob
// Dec 31, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Just an observation here but in Al Pascual’s link I noticed MS, while I see them marketing Silver Light their site is in Flex/Flash.
Wonder why they don’t use their own product?
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RonV
// Dec 31, 2007 at 4:34 pm
I want to see a touch table combined with holograms. That would be cool!!!
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Canuck
// Dec 31, 2007 at 7:11 pm
@J Wallis
You must have missed it a couple years ago when the Chargers cheerleaders did their photoshoot at the fountains outside the Marriott!
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mfd
// Dec 31, 2007 at 8:53 pm
I want to see a touch table combined with holograms. That would be cool!!!
RonV,
I thought it was a touch table, afterwards I was quickly removed from the arena by security
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Blizzardice
// Jan 1, 2008 at 4:42 am
Yes but what is the cost and will it work with ArcMap and or ArcReader and even ArcExplorer? For the amount of Labor I spend each year making updated wall maps I bet I could justify a damn pretty penny on something like this that isnt out of date the next business day.
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bender
// Jan 2, 2008 at 7:04 am
um… even a 1920 x 1080 google patchwork map
gis is sooo unsexy. you’ll need a (korean) cutie to pimp it up. but esri maps are so sexy, you only need a bearded pal to present them.
btw: i like the 3 yellow blobs on the right.
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Claude
// Jan 3, 2008 at 11:54 am
can you post a higher res version of this picture. This image pixelates when i use it as a desktop background
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ewwww
// Jan 3, 2008 at 12:38 pm
ewww Claude!!!! What are you trying to do with that higher resolution image. I need to go wash off now…
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