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Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) November 17, 2009

MOTO Development Group today unveiled a video of the worlds first round multi-touch casino gaming table experience for the Global Gaming Expo 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The prototype games running on the table are Blackjack and Texas Hold Em.

The video of MOTOs Blackjack for Multi-Touch gaming experience is available here:

http://labs.moto.com/blackjack-for-multi-touch/

Rather than embedding individual screens in a standard size blackjack table, MOTO’s multi-touch blackjack concept creates a seamless virtual table gaming experience that automates the betting process, physical cards, and card-shoes. Yet game players surround the table just like in standard (analog) blackjack tables, thus retaining the intrigue and entertaining social dynamics of human interaction in gaming.

Multi-touch single surface game tables have the potential to provide a bridge to internet gambling for gaming facilities seeking more advanced, technology-savvy players who are increasingly familiar with gestural navigation.

Gestural interface technologies are driving the creation of more game-like, fun experiences across consumer electronics (think iPhone), and at the same time were seeing games becoming more gestural (Yari ,Wii). But the best experiences arent just about the gesture; the gesture is only pleasurable if it has been tuned and optimized. At MOTO we work as hard on the invisible dimension of experience as we do on the part you see and touch, Margeigh Novotny, VP MOTO Strategy & Experience.

This Blackjack for Multi-Touch prototype casino game experience is evidence of MOTO Development Groups expertise in integrating advanced multi-touch technologies with compelling user interfaces for high volume consumer electronics (e.g., Zune 2.0; MOTOs own Android Media Platform).

Multi-Touch Blackjack page:

http://labs.moto.com/blackjack-for-multi-touch/

Multi-Touch Blackjack: How it Works

In 2007, MOTO developed a prototype of a Multi-Touch Table a large-scale, resistive-touch system that enables multiple users to conduct simultaneous touch-based interactions in a unified content environment. Table 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 the game.

With all that in mind, MOTO developed a full-scale versions of Blackjack for our multi-touch screen. Written in Java, using an open source graphics library called Processing (for images of playing cards, chips, card rotations, and animation), Multi-Touch Blackjack recreates a casino-style game experience on a touch-screen tabletop, giving a familiar game new verve.

From a design perspective, the key challenge was to develop gestures that feel natural and intuitive. Fortunately, Multi-Touch Blackjack also knows what players may want to do based on where they are in the action, so it automates some aspects of the game that might otherwise require non-intuitive actions.

When you have a hand of cards, for example, it assumes you probably want to hide them.

In the multi-touch environment, the basic elements of blackjack gameplay are re-created using familiar gestures and interactions:

Dealing: The dealer simply slides virtual cards across the table (or the task can be automated).

Private viewing: Players can shield their cards from other players by creating a cupped barrier with one hand. This gesture hides the face of the cards behind an opaque curtain. To view cards privately, the player slides their cupped hand slowly down the virtual cards. As the hand moves, the opaque curtain rises to reveal a small portion of the cards.

Betting: Bets are placed by dragging virtual chips into the center of the table.

Showing: Players reveal their cards by raising the cupped hand that shields them. (This behavior can be restricted so users cannot show their cards accidentally.)

Human learning curves and security concerns are substantial hurdles that would have to be overcome before multi-touch gaming takes over Vegas. But for folks seeking fun, novel, and truly social interactions with new technology, MOTOs Multi-Touch Blackjack has proven to be a big 21.

Multi-Touch Blackjack page:

http://labs.moto.com/blackjack-for-multi-touch/

About labs.MOTO.com

labs.MOTO.com is dedicated to sharing tools and technologies we have developed in our product development consulting practice, MOTO Development Group. MOTOs labs.moto.com initiative helps our team further creativity in next generation of connected devices, multi-touch, and provides a relaxed forum for sharing MOTO thinking and experiments.

About MOTO Development Group

Founded in 1991, MOTO develops products and product / service strategies for startups and Fortune 500 companies. Our methodology combines deep expertise in technology and consumer experience with a pragmatic focus on making the decisions required to deliver products to market. We help companies focus on key elements of innovation that provide differentiation, compelling customer experience, and market value.

MOTO maintains offices in San Francisco, California and Hong Kong SAR.

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(PRWEB) August 1, 2010

In the mid-90s a new incarnation of the MIT Blackjack team, a select group of MIT students trained to count cards and play blackjack using optimal strategies to gain an advantage over the house, took Vegas casinos for millions. Jeff Ma was one of the students on this team. After meeting Ma and accompanying his team to Las Vegas to watch them apply their techniques at the tables it didn’t take action thriller writer Ben Mezrich long to realize he had a best-selling story staring him in the face. More than a decade later, Ma has now published his own book, in which he applies his experience working with and trusting in statistics to the business world, completely picking apart business decisions made on “gut feelings” and intuitions and running the faulty reasoning behind these decisions into the ground.

Jeffrey Ma is not the first blackjack professional to apply his skills and experiences to the business world. Other MIT players, such as blackjack pros Mike Aponte and Dave Irvine founded their own companies offering blackjack supplies and blackjack mentoring. Edward Thorp, the godfather of card counting, followed up his seminal Beat the Dealer with Beat the Market. After his work in the field of card counting Thorp went on to try his knowledge of probability and statistics on the stock market, making a fortune in the securities market by exploiting pricing incongruities.

And now Jeff Ma shares the business insights he has culled from his blackjack career in The House Advantage. Bearing in mind that this is a business book, Ma’s blackjack experience features prominently to underline the importance of trusting in what he dubs “the religion of statistics.” This is not surprising, since Ma identifies his defining moment as an evening at a blackjack table in Vegas where he lost $ 100.000 on two hands of blackjack. After initially feeling like his system may have failed him, he gathered up his courage and returned to win back all of the lost money and then some. Ma argues that when making business decisions many people do not properly research the statistics. People shy away from risky choices in business as in blackjack because they do not analyse the risk of failure properly and therefore overestimate this risk, missing profitable opportunities because of placing their trust on a “gut feeling” rather than on hard data.

South Africa has been involved with the casino gaming business since the 60s, and basic strategy and card counting are sought after techniques among blackjack players here as much as anywhere else. Unlike many American card counting celebrities however, South Africa’s blackjack heroes are not yet ready to stop lying low and claim celebrity status. Not surprising, since in blackjack, if you are an active player and you know something nobody else does, you keep it to yourself. Like in business as in blackjack, the right circumstances play a large part in the success of a venture or team. Bearing in mind the rich history of US blackjack, here’s to hoping more advantageous gambling regulations and gambling tax cuts will boost the popularity of blackjack in SA in the future.

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Chicago, Illinois (PRWEB) September 13, 2011

Global Knowledge, headquartered out of Cary, North Carolina is the worldwide leader in IT and business skills training. Delivered via training centers, private facilities, and the Internet, enabling its customers to choose when, where, and how they want to receive training programs and learning services.

directIT Atlanta is an exclusive opportunity for leading local CIO and IT executives to network and brainstorm daily hurdles in an unparalleled learning environment. The event’s strategic agenda is designed to encourage idea sharing among attendees, allowing executives to implement new strategies within the organizations that they serve.

Keynote Jeff Ma is a member of the MIT Blackjack Team featured in the best-selling book Bringing Down the House and the box office-topping hit movie 21, but there is more to this entrepreneur, media mogul than blackjack. Jeff Ma shows IT leaders how harnessing the power of technology-driven platforms, using not only social media, but concrete data and numbers, can create incredible success. Whether sharing his personal experiences on the blackjack table or his consultations with sports executives and scouts, he shows how you can use math and media to make a positive difference in your organization.

For more information about or to participate in directIT Atlanta visit atlanta.ciosynergy.com, or contact Carlos Mendez, Event Director, at carlosm(at)ciosynergy(dot)com or 1.847.278.2213 ext 411.

About CIOsynergy

CIOsynergy was founded to provide a unique platform to bring together the true visionaries of enterprise IT leadership. These are the thought leaders that instigate both change and stability within the organizations they serve.

“The successful CIO is a one that empowers themselves with the lessons, knowledge, and experience of a community” CIOsynergy brings forth this community of IT Leaders under the umbrella of world renowned leaders and visionaries to the likes Steve Forbes, Jimmy Wales, Howard Putnam, Jeff Ma and Frank Abagnale. Empowering the concept of Thought Leadership, our events incorporate face-to-face meeting opportunities through a series of open mic panel discussions and think-tanks coupled with inspiring business relevant keynotes, and C-suite networking programs.

Attendees have included the Chief Information Officers and IT leaders from Wal-Mart, Salesforce.com, Home Depot, Bank of America, Forbes Media, Wells Fargo, Shell, Allstate, State Farm, Career Education Corp, Pepsi, Sara Lee, Kraft, BP, Loyola University, Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, & Walgreens among 1000s more.

Operating in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Houston, Atlanta, Minneapolis, London & Toronto, CIOsynergy has partnered with sponsors to include IBM, 3com, VMware, Unisys, Hitachi, Oracle, SunGard, Dell, Google, Amazon, and HTC among 100s more.

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Chicago, IL (PRWEB) September 14, 2011

Liaison Technologies, headquartered out of Atlanta with offices in the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom provides unique and high-value services to move, transform and manage business information in the cloud.

directIT Atlanta is an exclusive opportunity for leading local CIO and IT executives to network and brainstorm daily hurdles in an unparalleled learning environment. The event’s strategic agenda is designed to encourage idea sharing among attendees, allowing executives to implement new strategies within the organizations that they serve.

Keynote Jeff Ma is a member of the MIT Blackjack Team featured in the best-selling book Bringing Down the House and the box office-topping hit movie 21, but there is more to this entrepreneur, media mogul than blackjack. Jeff Ma shows IT leaders how harnessing the power of technology-driven platforms, using not only social media, but concrete data and numbers, can create incredible success. Whether sharing his personal experiences on the blackjack table or his consultations with sports executives and scouts, he shows how you can use math and media to make a positive difference in your organization.

Attending IT leaders discuss, debate, and challenge the direction of corporate IT as they interact with the CIO panel. A panel of CIOs that have taken a tell-all position on a panel that will reveal their successes, failures, and lessons learned.

“The successful CIO is a one that empowers themselves with the lessons, knowledge, and experience of a community,” said Nepal Patel, Principal of CIOsynergy. CIOsynergy brings forth a community of IT Leaders under the umbrella of world renowned leaders and visionaries to the likes Steve Forbes, Jimmy Wales, Howard Putnam, Jeff Ma and Frank Abagnale. Empowering the concept of Thought Leadership, these exclusive events incorporate face-to-face meeting opportunities through a series of open mic panel discussions and think-tanks coupled with inspiring business relevant keynotes, and C-suite networking programs.

For more information about or to participate in directIT Atlanta visit atlanta.ciosynergy.com, or contact Carlos Mendez, Event Director, at carlosm(at)ciosynergy(dot)com or 1.847.278.2213 ext 411.

About CIOsynergy

CIOsynergy was founded to provide a unique platform to bring together the true visionaries of enterprise IT leadership. These are the thought leaders that instigate both change and stability within the organizations they serve.

Attendees have included the Chief Information Officers and IT leaders from Wal-Mart, Salesforce.com, Home Depot, Bank of America, Forbes Media, Wells Fargo, Shell, Allstate, State Farm, Career Education Corp, Pepsi, Sara Lee, Kraft, BP, Loyola University, Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, & Walgreens among 1000s more.

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