Our friends over at Surface just released the beta toolkit built on WPF4. The toolkit is usable with any multi-touch enabled Windows 7 display, as well as the Multipoint SDK via the custom TouchDevice from my previous blog entry .

WPF4 allows applications to implement custom touch devices. We added this functionality to allow Surface SDK to be built on WPF multi-touch APIs directly. As we announced at PDC09, the next version of the Surface SDK will implement WPF multi-touch devices...

Another interesting MSR multi-touch project: Pictionaire This research project combines computer object recognition and Surface style multitouch interactions for collaboration. It’s based on a modified version of the Surface SDK ...

One of the most common usage of multi-touch input is for panning, zooming and rotation. With WPF4, the easiest way to implement these gestures is by using the Manipulation events on UIElements. Manipulation events also support simple inertial physics...

Raw Touch Events Touch events are the equivalent of mouse events for multi-touch input. In WPF4, we’ve added touch events to UIElement, UIElement3D and ContentElements. Multi-touch events follow the same patterns as mouse events, with TouchDown, TouchMove...

Really amazing work bringing together scientific data, 3D visualization, interactivity, and music.

During PDC 09, I co-presented a multi-touch session with Robert Levy from Surface.  (BTW, You have got to see the monster demo that Robert gave on the Surface unit.) We made a couple of significant announcements for WPF multi-touch developers. First...