The Consumer Electronics Show has just wrapped up for another year, and it was really cool to see Fingertapps Instrument app in action on Intel’s stand.

The 2012 International CES was the largest in the event’s 44 year history, with a record number of more than 3,100 exhibitors across the largest show floor in CES history (1.861 million square feet of exhibit space), drawing a record of over 153,000 attendees.

Here are some pics we took of Intel showing the innovations appearing in touch PCs. ASUS just released this new AIO PC which supports ten touch points. To demonstrate this feature in action, Fingertapps Instruments application was showcased. With four instruments in the suite (piano, guitar, drums and looper), this app is for everyone in the home – from beginner to expert musician – to learn, play along, perform and share the music they create, on their touch devices.

Along with our Instruments app, all Fingertapps applications support up to ten simultaneous touches so we were particularly excited to see this new ASUS AIO touch device on show at CES.

The team was in Taiwan again this week at AMD’s Technical Forum and Exhibition (TFE) speaking as part of the event and having our apps shown off by AMD and ourselves. TFE is an annual industry forum put on by AMD that brings together leaders in the technology industry of Taiwan to discuss the latest technical trends and innovations. One of the hot topics this year was how technologies such as DirectX 11 can help deliver a superior user experience for customers.

Our Fingtertapps apps were once again front and center as a key example of how to leverage DirectX 11 and our Jelly Jigsaw app is shown in the photo above being run on a yet to be released Windows 8 tablet (!).

You can check out Jelly Jigsaw and our other newly released Fingertapps apps, many of which are already optimized to use the new DirectX 11 features that AMD’s Fusion APUs enable and which will be standard on many Windows 8 devices next year.

At the first AMD Developer Summit in June 2011, David Brebner (our CTO and founder) spoke about his vision for Gestural and Cinematic applications and DX11.

Watch his presentation by clicking here.

The team is excited today to launch our new and updated range of Fingertapps applications.  We have been working hard to improve both our existing applications and create new applications.

We are looking forward to seeing these applications on All in One PCs around the globe.

View all Fingertapps products here and check out a product demonstration for the new Launcher Application below:

Earlier this month Victoria University of Wellington announced a new Computer Graphics programme that will be unique in Australasia in the way it blends computer science and design.   The goal of the programme is to build in-depth capability at Victoria to support New Zealand’s digital industries. This new initiative has come about as a direct result of collaboration between leading Wellington-based digital content companies including Unlimited Realities, Weta Digital and Sidhe.

Known for movies such as Avatar, King Kong and Lord of the Rings, Weta Digital is the award winning animation and visual effects arm of Peter Jackson’s movie making empire while Sidhe is a global video game developer with leading console, PC and mobile titles to its name including Rugby Challenge and Flick Kicks.  Here at Unlimited Realities we are best known as developers of the Fingertapps suite of touch screen applications for Windows devices and our world leading user experience design talent.

All three companies are built on a strong foundation of computer graphics and design in their given fields and at Unlimited Realities our emphasis is on the intersection of user interaction and computer graphics to deliver amazing user experiences.

For us at Unlimited Realities, this is a significant boost to the already burgeoning digital content industry in New Zealand and this investment from the New Zealand government and Victoria University will further strengthen Wellington’s and New Zealand’s role in the global computer graphics industry, whether it be in movies, games or software applications.

More information: http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Main/NewComputerGraphicsProgrammeLaunched