If you’re an avid Google Chrome user, you must have noticed that by default, the web installer for Google Chrome only installs it on the user account you’re logged in to your computer with. So when you any other user on the same computer has to use it, re-installation is required for that account again. Luckily, Google has provided a work around for this and that too in an offline format.
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VPlay from Microsoft Research – Multi-Touch for VJs
VPlay is a research project by Microsoft Research based on a multi-touch like a Surface Computer, which allows users to manipulate video in real time. Using real time interaction, VJing is made possible on a multi-touch surface which provides new possibilities, unique interfaces and interesting human computer interaction. Different objects on the surface represent different real world objects such as mixers.
It’s not really a new concept, as a whitepaper on it titled ‘VideoPlay: Playful and Social Editing of Video using Tangible Objects and Multi-touch Interaction’ was published in October 2007
VideoPlay is a novel tabletop system for editing video using tangible objects and multi-touch interaction. It targets the unique capabilities of the Microsoft Surface platform which supports high precision multi-touch and physical object sensing and tracking. New interaction techniques are presented that allow content to be downloaded from mobile devices onto the table. Physical tiles representing video clips, transitions and effects can be assembled and locked together with the aid of embedded magnets to create new video sequences. The intention is to support playful interaction, making the process of video editing more collaborative and engaging when compared to traditional techniques.



