Microsoft Research a diffusé une vidéo portant sur un projet “OmniTouch” qui utilise Kinect et un vidéoprojecteur afin d’obtenir une interface futuriste. En effet la complémentarité des deux technologies transforme toute surface devant lui, comme une main ou un bras, en une interface tactile. Le multipoint est en place et peut même utiliser plusieurs surfaces en même temps.
Un projet fort intéressant que l’on risque bien de revoir dans les mois ou années à venir et peut-être que nous avons un avant goût de l’interface de la prochaine génération de Xbox ?
OmniTouch - Demo Video - ACM UIST 2011
http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Research/OmniTouch
OmniTouch is a wearable depth-sensing and projection system that enables interactive multitouch applications on everyday surfaces. Beyond the shoulder-worn system, there is no instrumentation of the user or environment. Foremost, the system allows the wearer to use their hands, arms and legs as graphical, interactive surfaces. Users can also transiently appropriate surfaces from the environment to expand the interactive area (e.g., books, walls, tables). On such surfaces - without any calibration - OmniTouch provides capabilities similar to that of a mouse or touchscreen : X and Y location in 2D interfaces and whether fingers are « clicked » or hovering, enabling a wide variety of interactions. Thus, it is now conceivable that anything one can do on today’s mobile devices, they could do in the palm of their hand.
Reference : Harrison, Chris., Benko, Hrvoje., and Wilson, Andy. 2011. OmniTouch : Wearable Multitouch Interaction Everywhere. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on User interface Software and Technology (Santa Barbara, California, October 16 - 19, 2011). UIST ’11. ACM, New York, NY.
OmniTouch is a wearable depth-sensing and projection system that enables interactive multitouch applications on everyday surfaces. Beyond the shoulder-worn system, there is no instrumentation of the user or environment. Foremost, the system allows the wearer to use their hands, arms and legs as graphical, interactive surfaces. Users can also transiently appropriate surfaces from the environment to expand the interactive area (e.g., books, walls, tables). On such surfaces - without any calibration - OmniTouch provides capabilities similar to that of a mouse or touchscreen : X and Y location in 2D interfaces and whether fingers are « clicked » or hovering, enabling a wide variety of interactions. Thus, it is now conceivable that anything one can do on today’s mobile devices, they could do in the palm of their hand.
Reference : Harrison, Chris., Benko, Hrvoje., and Wilson, Andy. 2011. OmniTouch : Wearable Multitouch Interaction Everywhere. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on User interface Software and Technology (Santa Barbara, California, October 16 - 19, 2011). UIST ’11. ACM, New York, NY.
