Category: touch

Working with basic Kinect in flash is as easy as working with TUIO in flash. We’ve written a few things to get people started with TUIO and they all apply here.

Before you know it you’ll be making fun things like this:

After you’ve gotten started with TUIO, you’ll need a different application for grabbing/transforming the data from a Kinect into TUIO data that can be consumed by your application.

Need a once stop shop for getting started with TUIO and flash? There’s lots of tutorials out there, but we have a summary of the breadth of content in its relation to flash.

• TUIO and flash quick start guide

  Everything one needs to get up and started developing a TUIO application.

• TUIO Overview

  What is TUIO? Here’s a brief and more detailed overview.

• Getting data from the TUIO tracker into flash

  There are several ways to get TUIO data into flash, here’s a breakdown of them.

• TUIO flash libraries

  There’s a couple TUIO AS3 libraries of note, we look at their benefits.

• Bubblebird TUIO AS3 library and gestures

  This library has lots of great methods for creating gestures, but there’s some gotchas. See what they are.

• A simple TUIO application

  Coming soon.

• More complex applications

  Coming soon.

Congratulations, either you have an in depth knowledge of TUIO, or you’ve decided to jump right in.

Here’s a high level breakdown to get up and running as fast as possible.

While the bubble bird library is a great implementation of TUIO protocol the gesture system currently has a few gotchas.

There are two mainstream AS3 libraries for interpreting TUIO protocol data and making use of it within flash. Here’s a look at some of their details.

Flash can connect to TUIO data services in one of three ways; TCP, UDP, LocalConnection. Here’s a breakdown of those methods.

TUIO at its core.

In the most simple definition, TUIO is a way of sending a representation of touch points between two applications.