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Multi-colored gloves for gesture-based computing
Posted by admin in Games Gadgets on May 24th, 2010
Remember those gloves that Tom Cruise wore to use that gesture-based computer in Minority Report? Yeah, tight fitting black gloves with a cool light on them. Now imagine if Tom wore a pair of these.
Yes, these lycra gloves have 20 irregularly shaped patches in 10 different colors. The pattern is made to be used in companion with a webcam, and you can use many gestures to translate into certain commands.
I have a video on my Source that shows it being used. You can see a user picking up blocks in a 3D virtual world, and disassembling a disc brake.
It sort of reminds me of how Robert Downey Jr. was able to virtually disassemble his prototype armor blueprints in the original (and, from what I’m told, better) Iron Man. Of course, he wasn’t wearing any gloves, not even those cool red ones that shoot repulsor blasts. Again, imagine this Hollywood A-lister wearing these pastel patchwork gloves. Sort of ruins the drama, doesn’t it?
I believe that the plan is to use this in video games for picking up and moving objects, but isn’t Mircosoft already working on this with Project Natal?
Well, I would imagine that this would be quite an awesome, if this concept should ever become reality. Once again, we have to imagine every person wearing these funny gloves.
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Microsoft shows off its next-gen computing muscles on campuses nationwide
Posted by admin in Future Concepts on November 6th, 2009
Even though Microsoft could probably easily rest on the profits from Windows 7, it is always good to hear them working on new ways of interfacing with computers. Lately, chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundle has been going from college to college, showing off the latest next-gen computer prototype.
Mundle has a lot of interesting things to say about the way computers are headed. One of his demonstrations includes a computer that can project its images onto a pane of glass in front of him. He says that the future will probably bring about a workstation that will include multiple displays, that will eventually work their way into 3-D images. I can’t help but agree with him.
Mundle then used gestures to rotate and focus in on an image of a wind turbine. Gesture recognition is something that has been under development, and I’m certain will be perfected by the year 2054. (Because Minority Report takes place in that year.)
Mundle also showed how a computer can recognize handwriting when doing searches, but his results page was quite confusing as it showed many pages like a quilt of many tiny tiles. He then used eye-tracking to scan along those tiles, and each one would enlarge as it came into focus.
It really is quite amazing to see what they are working on, especially the eye-tracking. I don’t know whether that was just a special effect, but I certainly wouldn’t mind having that now. Perhaps Microsoft is one step closer to achieving that 2019 vision of the future.
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