Tag Archives: gesture

Minority Report UI In Real Life

June 11, 2010 – 7:47 PM

Everyone at Schematic has a soft spot in their hearts for Minority Report because our Chief Creative Officer, Dale Herigstad, was part of the research team that developed the visionary gestural interfaces used by Tom Cruise in the film. In this Ted talk, Minority Report science adviser and inventor, John Underkoffler, demos the real-life version of [...]

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Christie Microtiles Field Trip

March 26, 2010 – 8:18 PM

I recently had the opportunity to take a field trip down to Christie to see MicroTiles in action.  MicroTiles are 12″ (height) by 16″ (width) by 10″ (depth) units that include a projector using rear projection. Their native resolution is 720 x 540 pixels per tile. They can easily be stacked together in different configurations [...]

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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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