Multi-Touch Table for Casinos

clipped from www.fastcompany.com Multitouch Poker: The Future of Casinos? Moto Development Group has thrown together a neat prototype device that could possibly be the future of casinos: A multitouch, automatic, cybernetic Blackjack table. Finger-flicking financial fun, perhaps, but also a way to cut down on cheating. clipped from labs.moto.com Multi-Touch Table This table is a departure from earlier examples because it is relatively easy to use by non-technical content creators. It works in most lighting because it doesn’t use a camera. It is market quality, and does not require tuning on location. clipped from labs.moto.com Blackjack for Multi-Touch Gaming is an ideal application for multi-touch screen technology. Replacing physical tokens, chips, cards, or game pieces with virtual items eliminates tedious setup, distribution, and cleanup tasks while increasing the efficiency and accuracy of gameplay. And unlike many other real-world computing tasks, games have well-established norms and behaviors that are straightforward to translate into multi-touch gestures and interactions; players still feel that they “own” their cards, pieces, or money. Meanwhile, team-oriented play is actually easier in a virtual gamespace, because players can collaborate and share cards without having to physically pass them back-and-forth. clipped from vimeo.com clipped from labs.moto.com Scalable Multi-Touch Watch the demo: clipped from vimeo.com

Sources:

1. Multitouch Poker: The Future of Casinos? | Technomix | Fast Company
2. labs.moto.com » Blog Archive » Multi-Touch Table
3. labs.moto.com » Blog Archive » Blackjack for Multi-Touch
4. Multi-Touch Blackjack on Vimeo
5. labs.moto.com » Blog Archive » Scalable Multi-Touch
6. Scalable Multi-Touch Prototype on Vimeo

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3. MOTO preps multi-touch Blackjack table | Electronista
4. Moto creates an interactive BlackJack table for high-tech casinos | VentureBeat
5. http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html

Polaris Poker Bot Defeats Professional Poker Players

Polaris, a poker playing program developed by the computer poker research group at the University of Alberta. competed On July 3-6, 2008, against six human professional poker players in the Second Man-Machine Poker Championship which took place during the 2008 Gaming Life Expo at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Polaris defeated the human players convincingly with 3 wins, 2 losses and 1 tie.

clipped from www.poker-academy.com Polaris - Man vs Machine: 2k8 In 2007, Phil Laak and Ali Eslami squeaked out a narrow victory against Polaris and it’s creators. Polaris is back and refined to go up against 5 competitors hand picked by http://www.stoxpoker.com founder Nick Grudzien. The matches are taking place at the 2008 Gaming Life Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada, are sponspored by StoxPoker and powered by Poker Academy. The UofA Poker Group is live blogging and hand casting the match. clipped from www.poker-academy.com Man vs Machine 2008 – Results Polaris has defeated Man in the 2008 Man vs Machine competition! Final Standings: (.5 given for ties) Polaris: 3.5 Humans: 2.5 The Man Machine Event is a competition pitting a team of Poker players against the University of Alberta's advanced poker bot Polaris. The game is a $500/$1000 Limit Heads Up Texas Holdem, with a duplicate reverse match system (the same cards are dealt in both games but the human and bot is reversed in the second match).

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