OmniTouch Projection, Every Environment is Your Screen
Remember those Hollywood movies based upon the future? The ones with flying cars, robots, and cool gadgets. Microsoft research and develop team is another step closer in making those latest and greatest gadgets of the future.
PhD student Chris Harrison at Microsoft Research have created a new system that allows touchscreen interaction on anything. A screen could be the palm of your hand, your forearm, a wall, a notepad, or any surface (even and uneven). The system uses a short-range depth camera instead an infrared sensor. The post on Engadget shows a video of the OmniTouch project. Just imagine taking an online e-learning course on your forearm. Hopefully the hair on your arm would not be a distraction.
