The new MPMP 1.7 release has now a second backend for Windows based on libVLC.

After a lot of headache what kind of solution i should use for  Windows 7 compability i decided to use the libVLC as it supports a lot of more codecs then Media Foundation. (And Microsoft made it absolute complicated to find code for the right solution as they changed their API over the years a couple of times.)

This is a huge step on Windows as now you could use MPMP also for Windows 7, have better streaming support and on top of that you get a Youtube player!

The only drawback is that you don’t have the same performance like MF but for HD playback it is not a problem. Only for 4K you need a more decent GPU.

After three months of hard work i finally released my crossplatform video solution for Unity3d.
With this solution we Unity3d developers have now a unified video platform with a unified APIs and the best native performance.

There are several video plugins right available but there was no solution that gives you the best performance on all major platforms or you have to buy several expensive plugins and hack them together. So i decided to make my own solution to have the full control over such a complex system. I try to improve the system as much as i can over time and i’m open to user feedback.

More info here or at the Unity Assetstore !

If you want start with multi-touch development you have to decide what topics you are interested.
Some prefer only the interaction design, others trying to build their own soft-/hardware from the ground. Whatever you like the nuigroup forum is THE starting point on the net. There are a lot of information spread all around the forum. Without the help of so many community members I never would have achieved the things i develop.

To get the historical background and wider context on this field you should go to the site of Bill Buxton. He is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft and if somebody has a credibility on this topic then he. There is a very interesting talk from the CES 2010 with him about NUI: CES 2010: NUI with Bill Buxton