The new version, released 3 October, will be "a ground-breaking product in the world of advanced interactive displays, providing for the first time a free set of tools to take full advantage of MultiTaction Cells' scalability and advanced object and pen tracking features". The support for third-party hardware allows great flexibility for deployment and reuse of Cornerstone-based applications on a wide range of multi-touch displays from other manufacturers.
In addition to making its updated SDK free, MultiTouch has ensured that the new Cornerstone 2 also includes a far greater arsenal of tools to build the next generation of interactive applications. A key new feature is support for development with Javascript, in addition to traditional C++ which grows the pool of potential developers to many millions. Cornerstone 2 scales from single displays to 50 Megapixel walls with up to 50% performance increase compared to previous versions of Cornerstone.
"The Cornerstone development platform, together with MultiTaction displays, have been the engine that have set the standard for advanced interactive applications", says Petri Martikainen, CEO of MultiTouch. "We feel it is time for the world to know what can actually be achieved with this state-of-the-art technology at application level, and want to share our innovations with every developer in the field."
"It will come as no surprise that Cornerstone 2 is optimised for MultiTouch's own MultiTaction platform, since it supports all the advanced interactive features that other displays lack," says Hannu Anttila, VP of business development at MultiTouch. "Developers can use other hardware platforms to run their applications, but only MultiTaction will deliver the ultimate experience."
(Jim Evans)
