Message #1416 From:
TheMachine Date: July 15, 2008 08:38:25 AM
3M nets platinum award for MicroTouch Capacitive TouchSense System
May 29, 2008
GTS
attendees tab 3M for top award of Top 20 Most Innovative Gaming
Technology Products; Bally Technologies takes gold and silver.
3M
Touch Systems received the highest honors in Casino Journal’s Top 20
Most Innovative Gaming Technology Products of 2007 contest. The
company’s MicroTouch Capacitive TouchSense System netted the Platinum
Award at this year’s Gaming Technology Summit, where attendees voted
for their favorites among all of the Top 20 winners.
The
MicroTouch Capacitive TouchSense System is a next-generation touch
interface for gaming machines where players receive tactile feedback on
the touch-screen surface as well as the traditional audio and visual
cues. The system is an enhanced MicroTouch ClearTek II touch system and
can either be designed into future gaming cabinets optimized for
tactile touch slot games or retrofitted into existing on-floor casino
games to replace CRT or LCD displays — giving old games new life. This
system has allowed game manufacturers to replace their mechanical
buttons with a video-based button panel so players receive tactile
feedback similar to pressing a mechanical button, which will increase
player involvement and time on machine.
“We
really relish this Most Innovative Gaming Technology Product of the
Year award since the selection was made by the broad range of industry
technology specialists in attendance,” said Scott Hagermoser, gaming
business unit manager for 3M Touch Systems. “This award is another
indicator that the MicroTouch Capacitive TouchSense System could become
the next-generation touch interface for the gaming machine industry.”
Bally
Technologies was awarded both the Gold and Silver awards at the Gaming
Technology Summit — the Gold award for its TableView Real Time Table
Rating and Tracking System and the Silver for its GameMaker HD product.
The
TableView system is a standalone application designed to allow floor
operations staff to use a touchscreen device for entering real-time
player ratings, request chip fills and credits, input table closers,
issue player comps and markers and change the table shift. Data
gathered by the TableView system can be seamlessly integrated into the
Bally Casino Management System and can be installed on every table or
at an individual pit stand. The system also creates an almost paperless
environment.
Bally’s
GameMaker has been revamped into a new high-definition format as
GameMaker HD. As the only widescreen, multigame platform on the market,
it features a clear, sharp screen, enhanced audio and the reliability
of ALPHA OS, wrapped in a multi-denom in three distinctive cabinet
styles: CineVision widescreen; single-screen V20; and V20/20 dual
screen with stacked 20.1 inch touchscreen displays. All GameMaker HD
games are presented in a high-definition (1,286 lines of resolution)
widescreen format that supports an array of popular game titles. A
fully configurable multigame package offers multiple denominations,
multiple percentages and configurable max-bet-per-theme type.
Additionally, a patent-pending Game Select feature allows players to
change the game theme and denomination directly from the game being
played, without having to exit to the main game menu.
