Saturday, October 22, 2011

OmniTouch

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38933/page1/

For week three, I looked at OmniTouch.  This is where any surface can be trnsformed into a touch screeen. 

Similar to Microsoft Kinect game system, OmniTouch uses a miniature projector and an infrared depth camera to create a designed to interface with mobile devices such as smart phones, that you where on your shoulder.  The system uses the depth information provided by the camera to build a 3-D model of the environment to become the screen. The system rebuilds the model dynamically as the user or the surface moves.  As quoted by the article: OmniTouch "figures out what's in front you and fits everything on to it."

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