Tag Archives: gesture

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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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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Coraline Interactive Window

June 15, 2009 – 4:35 PM

This Digital Out of Home (DOOH) interactive experience was created in conjunction with the motion picture release of Coraline http://www.coraline.com. The  movie revolves around a girl who discovers an imaginary/parallel world from within the walls of her home. It’s definitely a creative idea that warrants a creative marketing approaching.  The DOOH experience takes place on the sidewalk [...]

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Microsoft Project Natal

June 8, 2009 – 5:56 PM

This newly revealed Xbox 360 interface device called Project Natal is a major step forward for consumer electronics as well as a huge asset for commercial deployments of interactive exhibits and digital out of home experiences. The technology (software and hardware in the form of a black sensor bar) promises to allow full body gesture navigation [...]

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