HP Interactive Canvas

The world's largest touchwall interface: 128 square feet? Many fingers? One UI? Four weeks? No problem!

We built the user interface for what was, at the time, the world's largest interactive multi-touch wall. In four weeks. With no prior multi-touch experience.

In partnership with Obscura Digital, Stimulant created a multi-touch, WPF-based interface for a massive multi-touch wall measuring 16’ x 8’ (5m x 2.5m), to create a branded experience for HP at the D5: All Things Digital Conference.

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In a mere four weeks our development team wrote their own multi-touch framework that integrated with Obscura Digital's custom IR-sensing, rear-projection multi-touch wall and provided an immersive and engaging interface for show attendees to explore.

The application included modules for browsing photos and videos from the event, real-time stock quotes, and RSS feed readers, a multi-user music maker and even a version of Pong™.

The piece was a huge success and hundreds of people had great fun with it. Darren even gave Martha Stewart a demo. In an interesting coincidence, this piece went live the night before Microsoft Surface was revealed onstage at the same conference by Steve Ballmer.