Demo of Laptop/Tabletop Hybrid UI 66
TheGrapeApe writes "The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (ACMUIST) has an interesting proof-of-concept video up demonstrating the use of cameras and laser pico-projectors to 'extend' a laptop's user interface to adjacent surfaces. The video demonstrates some simple gestures like tapping and dragging being captured on the 'extended' surface. While the prototype appears to be somewhat cumbersome, it's easy to see how it might be more elegantly integrated into the hardware with more R&D."
The One Fatal Flaw (Score:2, Funny)
The one downside is the system causes you to do an over-exaggerated nod any time you use it.
Man that was bad (Score:4, Funny)
That was the worst video demo I've seen in recent memory. None of the purported applications were interesting at all.
Quick, you want to pause the music you're playing. Which would be easier? (1) Hitting a pause button on your laptop; (2) Hitting a pause button on your headphones; (3) Putting an accelerometer in your headphones; (4) Finding the exact tiny square on your desk such that if you put your headphones down there and maybe fiddle with it for a couple seconds so it's in the proper orientation to be picked up by a camera? I don't see much future in option #4.
The scanning was pretty bad, too. Even manually taking a picture of a photo or piece of paper, where I'm directly overhead and fiddling with the lighting, it's hard to get a good result. When that started I thought "wow that picture is going to look like absolute shit" and it turned out even worse than I thought. Even at 480p you could the picture was unusable for anything, virtually unrecognizable even.
The worst was the "tapping", though. It actually requires you to break your own finger bones just to register a "tap"?
Re:Wouldnt do me any good... (Score:4, Funny)
I do. All of my papers, books, parts, plates and cutlery, post-it notes, mugs, wine bottles, and other miscellaneous clutter prevent dust from settling on it.
Knock-on-Wood (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I'm putting that on my bed... (Score:5, Funny)
It looks like you are trying to masturbate
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