ZeroTouch Sensor: Ready For Large Televisions and Gaming 27
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers Jon Moeller, Andruid Kerne, and a team from the Interface Ecology Lab at Texas A&M University showcased the latest ZeroTouch multi-finger sensing technology at ACM CHI, in Austin. ZeroTouch is a new spin on infrared sensing technology, which optimizes the sensor readout cycle for a linear array of modulated infrared light receivers. ZeroTouch also constitutes a precise free-air sensing technology (Kinect can be used as a complementary technology to sense depth). Researcher Bill Hamilton uses ZeroTouch integrated with Wacom Cintiq to showcase new embodied eSports interaction (video) for the open source Zero-K real time strategy game."
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Excellent!
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Kinect complimentary? (Score:3)
Re:Kinect complimentary? (Score:4, Funny)
What would be a use case for wanting to sit 2' away from your TV, poking it with your hand
Personal research shows the popularity of this activity seems to peak around age 3.
I'm guessing this is going to do well as part of the next "Dora the Explorer" wii game.
Probably not the right demographic for Saints Row 2013.
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Dude, have you seen the big purple dildo sword? It's the perfect demographic!
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Much like the Kinect, it uses patterned IR to detect motion. Unlike the Kinect, it doesn't detect depth, but is good for detecting motion in a 2d plane closer to the screen than the Kinect's minimum sensing distance.
This isn't a film overlay, so cost scales linearly with the length and width of the screen instead of by the area of the screen.
You would know this if you were literate.
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What would be a use case for wanting to sit 2' away from your TV, poking it with your hand, as opposed to sitting on the couch and just waving it?
it can be used like a surface, not necessarily a TV. If you look at the video link in the article, there's a use case for RTS games, and the kind of applications (like painting, card games, playing piano, photo manipulation, etc) that already exist for microsoft surface.
actually how is it even related to Kinect?
To quote from the article, "...In another demonstration the system used a Microsoft Kinect camera to differentiate the hands and fingers of various users."
More importantly, this 'contraption' you speak of is a lot cheaper than competing alte
Re:Kinect complimentary? (Score:4, Insightful)
Did anyone watch the youtube video or read the article?
It does multi-touch quite well. Its advantage is that it's very inexpensive when compared to capacitive touch, which has a cost that scales as a square of the display size, where this one scales linearly. So a 55" multi-touch display, with the actual display device, that works well, will cost you $2,200 instead of the $10k or whatever that they charge for an MS Surface.
Also, nobody is using one with the TV vertically. All configurations are in table configuration, just like every other large multi-touch you've ever seen... so you're not really meant to sit 2' from your living room tv.
The only use of Kinect was to augment the touch sensing.
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Are you telling me that adding this contraption to your television (no matter how awkward looking it is), is going to be cheaper than buying a touch-screen this size?
In a word: yes. That's the whole point.
From what I gathered in the article (I know, I know, I should know better than to read the article), a key part of this technology is that it's significantly more cost effective than capacitive technology as the size of the screen increases (cost scales as a linear function as opposed to as a quadratic function). But really, it doesn't sound like it's being designed with TVs in mind. It sounds like it's being designed as an alternative (and better, for some cases) meth
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Sorry, the last time I had to physically stand up and interact with a TV to change the channel was back in the 70's. I like to think we have advanced past that unnecessary tedium. The concept of touch screen TV's works great in the school or boardroom, but is an epic fail in the living room.
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TV's are a really bad example (Score:2)
Using this with TV's is a pretty piss poor choice of use case that doesn't fairly demonstrate the poteential for this technology.
Where I think it would be better served is in large displays (or any large rectangular area, actually) that could be served by multi-touch sensitivity and would ordinarily benefit from direct physical interaction, but where developing an accurate multi-touch sensitive film to cover the entire area would be cost prohibitive.
Zero Touch? A Technological First! (Score:1)
Zero Touch: The first technology without a porn application?
That would truly be groundbreaking.
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non-corporeal evolution? (Score:1)
Why is there so much effort in making things effortless? No mechanical buttons, no leavers, no wheels.... Are humans trying to evolve into non-corporeal beings?
We need tactile feedback, and physical effort to operate, be efficient and accurate and help our brains learn new tasks.
We have evolved in a physical world. I'm certain there will be more and more consequences on health with these technologies including obesity, RSI, tendon and muscle damage, nervous system complaints, depression and other mental
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Why is there so much effort in making things effortless? No mechanical buttons, no leavers, no wheels.... Are humans trying to evolve into non-corporeal beings?
Refer to Platonism then skip to Descartes "Cogito Ergo Sum" and finish it off with the wide spread application and industrialization of digital technologies
We need tactile feedback, and physical effort to operate, be efficient and accurate and help our brains learn new tasks.
Completely agree, there are many other HCI technologies in the works, mainly in haptics. The visual component however cannot be ignored as a queuing signal.
We have evolved in a physical world. I'm certain there will be more and more consequences on health with these technologies including obesity, RSI, tendon and muscle damage, nervous system complaints, depression and other mental illnesses.
This is true, although it isn't as if there isn't oversight into the development and proliferation of the technology. There is continued development in non invasive brain computer interfaces like NeuroSky,Emotiv and BrainPut. Other personal growth technologies like Fitbit,Fuelband and Jawbone are examples in the rapidly growing life tracking/"Quantitative Self" movement; technologies to make users more aware and motivate them to healthier life styles. I don't believe I formatted that nicely. Nonetheless...
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Interactive TV Platform as Important as Mobile (Score:1)