If you like the visuals, try Plasma Pong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDjseVmruH8

Posted at 4:43 pm on Apr 22nd, 2009 by jproach

could this work on the itouch too?

Posted at 6:56 pm on Apr 22nd, 2009 by blizzarddemon

Yep, I’m using it on an iPod touch!

Posted at 7:48 pm on Apr 22nd, 2009 by Peter Kirn

how are mutltiple touches handled in safari? does each touch get a special event-id so that you can distinguish which finger is moving on a move update? does this require a specific safari js interpreter, or could it be used any multitouch browser?

Posted at 8:15 pm on Apr 22nd, 2009 by cptfalcon

This is NOT running in Safari. He is using a downloaded iPhone app called OSCremote which happens to be configured using HTML. More info here:
http://www.pillowsopher.com/blog/?p=79

Posted at 4:06 am on Apr 23rd, 2009 by Gadgeteer

thanks for the clarification, apparently i miss-understood the bit about oscremote

Posted at 10:53 am on Apr 23rd, 2009 by cptfalcon

lcd4linux (bleeding edge) does support the vnc protocol – also buttons are supported. so you may use lcd4linux and a vnc viewer on your iphone to remote control something (eg. music player)

Posted at 11:00 am on Apr 23rd, 2009 by michu

gadgeteer, that’s incorrect. He was inspired by the fact that OSCemote uses essentially an embedded Web interface. It is absolutely possible to run an application in Safari, which is what he’s doing here. It is a Web app. Arguably, so is OSCemote, but that’s not what he’s using.

Posted at 11:45 am on Apr 23rd, 2009 by Peter Kirn

@cptfalcon, the described program uses Safari, not OSCemote, like Peter says. The touch events have a list of touches, and each touch has a property called “identifier” that is unique for that touch within the lifetime of the touch. But the identifiers (which are just integers) can be reused. When a touch ends, a touchend event is sent out (and received by listeners), and you can get the touches from that event to determine when a given touch has ended. That way you can know that the current touch #7 is different from the touch #7 you were following earlier, because there was a touchend event with touch #7 in between the two.

@gadgeteer, sorry about the confusion. I think I wrote that at around 2:00 AM, so I may not have been clear.

@peter, I would call OSCemote “a platform for specialized web apps” rather than an actual web app. I mean, you can open any web page from within the app.

Posted at 4:54 pm on Apr 23rd, 2009 by Andrew Turley

This is why apple sucks. They have an absolutley amazing piece of hardware, and instead of opening it up so people can do revolutionary things, they have to “approve” applications and decide to block things that don;t fit with apple. I think Wired sumed it up best with the following quote… “your iPhone is a pathetic piece of DRM-riddled crippleware”…

Posted at 9:11 pm on Apr 23rd, 2009 by Mitch

thanks andrew, i had no idea the web app stuff for the itouch had support for multitouch, that is pretty neat… might have to see what neat tricks i could do with a multitouch page :)

Posted at 9:38 pm on Apr 23rd, 2009 by cptfalcon