Monday, February 12. 2007

Autodesk Shows off Hardware

Folks going to the ESRI User Conference are now prepped to see cool hardware after the "Touch Table" appeared one year and the "Terrain Table" another. I believe today was the first time I saw hardware showed off that way on an Autodesk stage. Being the press we didn't ooh and ah, but the two offerings do warrant at least a "cool" from me.

One was simply a large touch screen mounted on the wall. With familiar gestures an Autoesk "fellow" zoomed in and turned a 3D model. It was sort of the touch table, but on a wall. Autodesk apparently has made that tool available to a few clients and is looking for partners to build it. (We first got a "we've not made it available" from CEO Carl Bass, then got a "no, clients have it" from CTO Jeff Kawalski. Get the story straight, guys!)

More interesting to me was the "Boom Cam" in-house only toy. Imagine a flat screen monitor hung on a boom so you can move it where you like. Now consider it your window to look at a 3D model. Move the boom low to look at the wheels of the car. Come up to see the door. A control even opened the door so you could navigate inside the car. The idea there, said Carl Bass, is to make using any software that intuitive.

Disclosure: Autodesk covered travel, lodging, food for me to attend World Press Day. I also received corporate gifts.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Autodesk Press Day 2007 at 20:28 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0) |

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What you have seen seems to be an application called PortfolioWall developped by Alias (now Autodesk). PortfolioWall is a software application but it was developped to be used with large touch screens as it can be seen here http://archive.cardesignnews.com/news/2001/011205aw-portfwall/index.html or www.autodesk.com/designcommunity > Movie Gallery > PortfolioWall Movies

#1 d. on 2007-02-15 11:25 (Reply)

How very odd Autodesk didn't make that clear!

#2 Adena Schutzberg (Link) on 2007-02-15 11:33 (Reply)

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