(00:00) hello my name is adam bogue and this is the diamond touch table 

(00:04) it’s the first instill only multi-user touch 

(00:07) technology capable of supporting multiple simultaneous users 

(00:12) and it knows who’s who here let me show you how diamond touch is different than 

(00:16) other multi-touch displays that you might have seen before (00:22) so obviously this is a touch screen but the thing that makes it different 

(00:26) is that diamond touch is multi-user and i have a little demo that illustrates 

(00:30) what i mean by that so when i touch it’s blue and 

(00:35) when these guys touch do you see how each of us is a different color (00:40) no matter where you touch diamond touch knows who’s who (00:43) and the point here is we wanted to create a new type of computer interface (00:47) to support small group face-to-face collaboration 

(00:51) laptops tablets smartphones those were all designed for individual users 

(00:57) of course you can use these devices to connect to other individuals 

(01:01) but if you’re in the same place with other people and you’re trying to work 

(01:04) together you know these devices get in the way 

(01:07) that’s why people often print things out when they’re going to meet 

(01:11) the best a traditional computer can do is to let one person drive while 

(01:15) everybody else kind of looks over that person’s shoulders 

(01:18) and that’s no good with diamond touch everybody can be face to face 

(01:22) and everyone can drive at once so here’s my desktop my finger’s a mouse 

(01:30) here’s another big difference between diamond touch and other touch screens 

(01:33) you know how windows only has one cursor well right now i have it 

(01:38) and if someone tries to take it from me they can’t have it until i let go and 

(01:44) then they can have it this is a subtle point but other touch 

(01:48) screens can’t do that other touch screens kind of freak out 

(01:51) when multiple people touch the cursor jumps around and you’d never 

(01:55) get anything done that’s why most tabletop touch screens 

(01:59) avoid the frustration by making it only work with special 

(02:03) applications specifically designed for their hardware 

(02:06) whereas diamond touch works with anything 

(02:14) that’s a double click my fist is a scroll wheel (02:19) yeah you got it now because most business software is 

(02:24) single user what we’ve been doing is to make other people’s software 

(02:28) multi-user aware and here’s an example diamond touch can be used by engineers 

(02:32) and architects for design review meetings 

(02:35) of course a long time ago these design review meetings 

(02:38) took place about a large piece of paper a blueprint or a schematic 

(02:43) and people were face to face now with everything done in cad 

(02:48) people are making their design review comments in the computer 

(02:51) one person at a time and it’s a lot less efficient 

(02:55) people don’t have the opportunity to be face to face 

(03:02) so this is a drawing of a building it’s a pdf 

(03:06) what we did is we made a plug-in tool for adobe acrobat that lets you 

(03:10) do some new things it makes it diamond touch or multi-user aware 

(03:14) first of all you can do the two-finger zoom this is a pan gesture 

(03:18) now if we’re doing commenting for design review 

(03:21) we can do it multi-user style so we have these tools here this is mine 

(03:26) and that’s yours when i draw here you can see that shows 

(03:31) up here in the comment pane with my name on it 

(03:34) now when you guys draw right so we can all be working at the same 

(03:39) time here i can highlight this text i can open up a tool like this 

(03:50) and automatically a keyboard pops up if you’re meeting with a client you can 

(04:02) capture the customer approval right here in the document with these 

(04:05) stamps and again because we know who’s who 

(04:07) we know who it was that approved the document and when 

(04:11) and when this is another example of something that you can only do 

(04:16) on the diamond touch table because it knows who’s who 

(04:19) not just multi-touch multi-user touch