From its headquarters in Cambridge, England, the company distributes high quality products to an international network of partners.

In 2001, the company was founded after noticing the potential to allow customer access to information after high street closing hours.

Dominant activities presently include the manufacture of projected capacitance touchfoils and distribution to an established group of global resellers, integrators, and distributors.

Producing the world's first 150" film based projective capacitive touch sensor; visualplanet invented the touchfoil permanent and reusable mounting methods to enable long and short-term installations; pioneered the integration of UV blocking, rear-projection and scratch resistant films into the product.

Pinch and zoom operates when the user touches the interactive screen with two fingers thus utilizing the function of the centre mouse roller for Windows XP, Vista and 7.

In September 2011 visualplanet's multi-touch function was launched offering Windows 7 gesture support and a software development kit.

The visualplanet touchfoil can be applied to holographic and high contrast diffusion[8] screens to provide large dynamic information displays.

The show's presenter, Jon Bentley visited Visualplanet and with his crew, filmed numerous stages of the production process.

Lord Mandelson visited visualplanet's Cambridge base on 25 July 2009 launching the advanced manufacturing scheme aimed to offer support to firms trying to make new strides in design, aerospace, electronics and other emerging fields.

There was also reference to visualplanet's connection with partners both on a worldwide basis, and those who address the retail, corporate, entertainment, education, and local authority industries.