We launched our first large, ultra cool campaign for the new Samsung touch mobile phones along with the leading advertising agency Mccaan Erickson.

It is a website that you control using hand gestures (minority report style) using any webcam. It was implemented as an ActiveX and as a FireFox extension so the install is really simple!

check it out, we’d love to hear your thoughts:

http://www.samsungmobile.co.il/touch

It’s been a few months since our last entry. It’s not because there wasn’t much going on, it was more because there was too much going on

Either way we thought we’d update you on the new stuff we’ve been working on.

We have developed CamSpace to run from within the browser as an ActiveX (soon you will get access to it, we promise) . This means that in addition to supporting any web cam we can also run from within any browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer).  We’ve also developed the ability to lock on a particular product or object and make sure only that can be a controller.

This has let us do really great things with advertisers.
See a quick video showing what we can do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnZCdB0nng0

Our value proposition for advertisers and interactive agencies is:
-      Sales acceleration – using advertisers products, web and a pc we can create interactive motion tracking games running over the internet

-      Emotional bond between product and consumer – as you use the product and experience a really unique activity you emotionally bond with the product

-      Maximum exposure – Our technology runs over the Internet and using any pc -  meaning we can reach the mass consumers easily

-      Support for POS activities – we are also able to run in POS or attraction points as a stand

-      Viral and word-of-mouth marketing – the experience creates a lot of buzz and word of mouth advertising! People tell their friends about it!

-      Unique experience – brand yourselves as different! Not part of the pact!
Recently we went out to the streets to film people having fun with CamSpace for the first time.

Check out the My First Time video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d1Hi1TRcKs

So if you know anyone that might find our technology useful, do not hesitate to direct them to us!

More news soon to come…

We’ve got a lot of new goodies wrapped up in the new package. Among the many changes:

• Highly-improved stability and performance
• New graphical interface
• DirectX drawing (should be much faster on most systems)
• Game gallery
• Flash game support
• Improved API and scripting
• … and much more!

Ready to get going? Check out the download page and start experiencing games like never before!

CamSpace Beta 7 is now open for everyone to use, no serial key is required.

We invite you to visit our new website (http://www.camspace.com) and download the new version.

Main new features:

• Connect CamSpace to your favorite game, and share your creation with the community by uploading it directly from the application.
• Stay up-to-date automatically with the newest available Game-Controllers on the website. All you have to do is start your favorite game, and you will be prompted with the list of relevant Game-Controllers.
• Brand new Graphics and UI engine.
• Rating engine.
• Developers can now download a kit to create object-tracking enabled applications.

Let the games begin,

The CamSpace Team.

Hold on to your horses…

Beta 7 is going to be a significant upgrade, with many new features and bugfixes. Ease-of-use, emulation-creation workflow, and integration with a central emulation repository have been our top priorities. We will release Beta 7 as an Open Version without the need for a registration key.

For obvious reasons, CamSpace Beta 7 will not be released in July. Please stay tuned – the release is not far away. We are aware that many registration keys have expired. You are welcome to visit the Serial Request page, to renew your license key.

We apologize for the delay, but trust us – it will be well worth the wait.

The CamSpace Team

That said, we are now directing our efforts towards making the Emulation Authoring and Object Locking processes clearer and easier to understand. This includes documentation and in-program explanations, not to mention streamlining the interfaces involved.

Meanwhile, we invite you to join our forums (http://www.camspace.com/forum)! We are looking for Moderators: if anyone is interested, please contact beta@cam-trax.com.

Videos after the jump…

We want to see you people create crazy applications and emulations! Show us what you’ve got!!!

After a long and exhausting battle with a quite unforgiving bug, we are finally cleared and ready to continue preparing CamSpace for the general public.

We have sent invitations to all eligible beta requests.

If you have not received an invitation, and would like to, please sign up here. Eligible beta candidates will receive an invitation as soon as possible!

For the list of recent changes, see our Change Log.

Remember – we want to hear your feedback! Please send it to beta@cam-trax.com.

We would also like to extend our thanks to the many beta testers who helped us discover and finally track down this last stability bug.

We are slowly releasing CamSpace BETA2 to all those who signed up.

However, we are currently fighting bizarre bugs that cause problems for some of the users. We are working hard to fix them ASAP, and hopefully we will release the BETA in the next week or so.

Thank you for your patience,
The CamSpace Team.