Category Archives: Immersive

New Vision Based Mobile Interface

January 21, 2010 – 6:51 PM

A team at Tokyo University recently developed a device that translates in-air finger movement to input commands so that the device can be used without physically touching the screen. Unlike Sixth Sense, this system does not require surrounding sensors or finger markers. According to Gigazine in an article translated from the original Japanese, [...]

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VW’s Piano Staircase -The Fun Theory

December 23, 2009 – 1:00 PM

The Fun Theory is an experiential marketing campaign produced by VW to help make the connection between the importance of fun in everyday life and how fun can be a transformative power for improvement.   This translates well for VW since they have long established themselves as the ambassadors of driving fun, an everyday task easily [...]

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Camille Utterback Interview

October 28, 2009 – 9:52 AM

Wired recently produced a video interview with interactive artist Camille Utterback for a piece on GadgetLab and I happened to stumble across it. Utterback is a 2009 MacArthur Foundation fellow and, as I’ve noted previously, she’s been doing interesting interactive art for a fairly long time. It’s worth watching the video and keeping up with [...]

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Exploring the Sixth Sense

October 21, 2009 – 5:18 PM

Wow, the ramping up of Schematic Touch has been a lot busier than expected, and this blog has clearly suffered from a lack of time. But I’ve been making lots of notes about relevant items so I’m planning to post about a lot of the things we’ve missed over the last few months.
One that I [...]

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Touchable (& Feelable) Holography

August 8, 2009 – 8:20 AM

A video out of Asia recently surfaced all over the web, demonstrating an interesting project out of the University of Tokyo. Watch the video, it starts out slow, but gets interesting.

Now holography itself is pretty old hat to us – we were implementing it more than a decade ago. And combining gestural vision systems with [...]

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