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Trackmate is an open source initiative to create an inexpensive, do-it-yourself tangible tracking system. Trackmate tags have a very large address space (over 280 trillion possible tags) and the entire system costs less than $70 to build (even cheaper if you already have a webcam).

For more information, visit http://trackmate.sourceforge.net

New in this release:
- updated backend libraries to current OpenFrameworks version (0.061). This helps with webcam support on Windows and OS X.
- Feedback now added to indicate when LusidOSC is On/Off.
- Allow OSC Host,Port to be changed for users working with multiple Trackmate tables or other OSC-based devices.

Trackmate is an open source initiative to create an inexpensive, do-it-yourself tangible tracking system. Trackmate tags have a very large address space (over 280 trillion possible tags) and the entire system costs less that $100 to build (even cheaper if you already have a webcam). For more information, visit http://trackmate.sourceforge.net

New in this release:
- analog color data is now sent along with each object to any LusidOSC application (this allows for custom interaction within each tag).
- built on the latest version of open frameworks (0.06)
- now supports for Linux
- allows for various setups via mirroring and flipping image coordinates
- allows for control over speed/cpu-friendliness via the image update rate... read more

Trackmate, an open source initiative to create an inexpensive, do-it-yourself tangible tracking system, is being released for the first time. Trackmate tags have a very large address space (over 280 trillion possible tags) and the entire system costs less that $100 to build (even cheaper if you already have a webcam). For more information, see http://trackmate.sourceforge.net