| daroamer said: The tech wasn't about the projectors, it was about using the depth cameras to create natural human user interfaces. The way the information was displayed within the room isn't what's relevant. That table he was using to move the pictures around could just as easily been a regular monitor, the point was you didn't need the monitor to be touch sensitive, ala Microsoft Surface, because the interaction was being controlled by the depth cameras. The point is ANY surface can become a touch user interface of sorts. Similarly when he swipes the video onto his hand it can swiped onto anything he is holding like a phone....what is generating the ball of light on his hand is IRRELEVANT. It's the motions being interpretted by the depth cameras that cause the data to move from surface to surface (table, body, screen) that is really the important thing here. Go watch the video again. |
Instrumented with multiple depth cameras and projectors, LightSpace is a small room installation designed to explore a variety of interactions and computational strategies related to interactive displays and the space that they inhabit. LightSpace cameras and projectors are calibrated to 3D real world coordinates, allowing for projection of graphics correctly onto any surface visible by both camera and projector. Selective projection of the depth camera data enables emulation of interactive displays on un-instrumented surfaces (such as a standard table or office desk), as well as facilitates mid-air interactions between and around these displays. For example, after performing multi-touch interactions on a virtual object on the tabletop, the user may transfer the object to another display by simultaneously touching the object and the destination display. Or the user may “pick up” the object by sweeping it into their hand, see it sitting in their hand as they walk over to an interactive wall display, and “drop” the object onto the wall by touching it with their other hand.
It's NOT data that is moving. Data transfer would require wireless network transfer that we already have. Not impressive.
