OmniTouch: Wearable Multitouch Interion Everywhere WWW.GOODNEWS.WS
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Wearable Depth-Sensing Projection System Makes Any Surface Capable of Multitouch Interion. Researchers From Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon Create OmniTouch Technology. OmniTouch, a wearable projection system developed by researchers at Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University, enables users to turn pads of paper, walls or even their own hands, arms and legs into graphical, interive surfaces. OmniTouch employs a depth-sensing camera, similar to the Microsoft Kinect, to track the users fingers on everyday surfaces. This allows users to control interive applications by tapping or dragging their fingers, much as they would with touchscreens found on smartphones or tablet computers. The projector can superimpose keyboards, keypads and other controls onto any surface, automatically adjusting for the surfaces shape and orientation to minimize distortion of the projected images.OmniTouchIts conceivable that anything you can do on todays mobile devices, you will be able to do on your hand using OmniTouch, said Chris Harrison, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellons Human-Computer Interion Institute. The palm of the hand could be used as a phone keypad, or as a tablet for jotting down brief notes. Maps projected onto a wall could be panned and zoomed with the same finger motions that work with a conventional multitouch screen. Harrison was an intern at Microsoft Research when he developed OmniTouch in collaboration with Microsoft Researchs Hrvoje Benko and Andrew D. Wilson. Harrison will describe the technology on Wednesday (Oct. 19) at the Association for Computing Machinerys Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) in Santa Barbara, Calif. Read the full story »\r
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Wearable Depth-Sensing Projection System Makes Any Surface Capable of Multitouch Interion. Researchers From Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon Create OmniTouch Technology. OmniTouch, a wearable projection system developed by researchers at Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University, enables users to turn pads of paper, walls or even their own hands, arms and legs into graphical, interive surfaces. OmniTouch employs a depth-sensing camera, similar to the Microsoft Kinect, to track the users fingers on everyday surfaces. This allows users to control interive applications by tapping or dragging their fingers, much as they would with touchscreens found on smartphones or tablet computers. The projector can superimpose keyboards, keypads and other controls onto any surface, automatically adjusting for the surfaces shape and orientation to minimize distortion of the projected images.OmniTouchIts conceivable that anything you can do on todays mobile devices, you will be able to do on your hand using OmniTouch, said Chris Harrison, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellons Human-Computer Interion Institute. The palm of the hand could be used as a phone keypad, or as a tablet for jotting down brief notes. Maps projected onto a wall could be panned and zoomed with the same finger motions that work with a conventional multitouch screen. Harrison was an intern at Microsoft Research when he developed OmniTouch in collaboration with Microsoft Researchs Hrvoje Benko and Andrew D. Wilson. Harrison will describe the technology on Wednesday (Oct. 19) at the Association for Computing Machinerys Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) in Santa Barbara, Calif. Read the full story »\r
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