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theprof00 on 31 October 2010
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youarebadatgames said:
theprof00 said:

nearly a year ago buck-o

same tech, already on the shelves.

http://www.gadgetvenue.com/light-touch-interactive-projector-light-blue-optics-01053553/


Once again, you've failed to do #1.  If you don't understand the problems the researchers had to overcome, you cannot understand #2.

Hint: the projector isn't the technology

BTW, my interest in kinect is to see them build an automated sentry gun.

yes it is!

http://singularityhub.com/2010/02/17/minority-report-interface-is-real-hitting-mainstream-soon-video/

It is exactly this in the link using a projector and hands instead of gloves.

They took what was already out there, and said, "hey, if we used a 360 degree projector to put a screen anywhere in the room, we could throw things everywhere".

I'm sorry to break it to you like this, but this has been done!

Now, granted, the light interaction things were neat, and I have not seen them before (specifically, the ball and the menu selection), but if I really tried I'm sure I could find the tech already out there as well. It's just never been in my interest to do so.

Kinect is NOT a groundbreaking technology. Case in point, it is CONSUMER technology, which means that the tech has existed already for ages in commerical applications (ie; for $$$$$).

 

I'm not saying that IR light manipulation is useless, but that this incarnation of it is useless. It is the only one I've seen that uses this kind of projector. I've seen it done on screens, and stationary projectors, on moving objects. This one is useless because it requires a projector, and projectors are very very expensive.

To me, this is equivalent to 3d tv. It's cool, but, there are other cheaper better ways to get the same end result.