How Interactive Scape and Ventuz turn physical objects into real-time stories
In Interactive Scape's words:
“Ever seen a table that understands what you place on it? That's the magic behind Scape X®.”
A table that understands what you place on it.
Interactive Scape builds premium multitouch tables and displays with a special talent: thanks to the patented Scape X® technology, they recognize not just fingers but the things you set down on them. Place a physical object on the surface and it becomes the key to a digital story. Move it, rotate it, or lift it off, and the content follows in the same instant.
Ventuz applications run natively on these tables. The combination pairs Scape X® object recognition with the Ventuz real-time 3D engine, so the moment an object touches the glass, high-end interactive graphics respond around it. And nothing is lost along the way: pinch, zoom, and swipe keep working exactly as they do on any Ventuz touch application, because object recognition adds a new interaction layer on top of multitouch instead of replacing it.
Seen live at ISE 2025 in Barcelona.
At ISE 2025, Ventuz and Interactive Scape turned the exhibition booth into a shared showcase for tangible interaction. The centerpiece was a broadcast analysis table: an application built in Ventuz running natively on an Interactive Scape multitouch table. Visitors placed tagged objects on the surface and instantly triggered real-time 3D content, recreating the feel of an on-air analysis desk on a shared, interactive surface, with the table driving the content on the connected screens around it.
The same setup showed how playful tangible interaction can get: a toy ice resurfacer cleared the virtual rink it was driven across, transparent pucks called up statistics, and a physical ring worked as a magnifying lens hovering over the exhibition floor plan, revealing booth details as visitors slid and rotated it across the map.
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Open protocol, native integration.
Scape X® reads a projected capacitive surface for objects, smartphones, and touch, transparent shapes included. The open TUIO protocol carries what the table sees straight into Ventuz, with no middleware in between. Digital content responds in a way that feels almost physical: complex data becomes something you can literally grasp.
That openness pays off in production. The interface resets the moment the last object is lifted off, clean and ready for the next story, and the same surface can host an energy scenario today, a mobility dataset tomorrow, and a brand presentation right after.
What the collaboration delivers:
• Patented Scape X® recognition: objects, smartphones, and more than one hundred simultaneous touch points
• Object identity, position, and rotation streamed over TUIO
• Full multitouch on top: pinch, zoom, and swipe alongside tangible objects
• Existing Ventuz touch applications enhanced without a rebuild
• Several people working the same surface at once, with no menus and no training
• Content on the table and on connected screens reacting in real time
From showrooms and museums to consulting scenarios and broadcast analysis desks, the combination makes complex data tangible on a shared, multi-purpose surface.
