Make the world around you touchscreen

The symposium in Santa Barbara, dedicated user interfaces, researchers from Microsoft Research presented technology that virtually any surface can become a "screen" touch-sensitive, ie the touchscreen.

This technology is called OmniTouch, at Microsoft working on it for several years, research conducted Hrvoje Saponas Bank and Scott. OmniTouch combines several laser projectors and cameras that can detect depth, similar to those used in Kinect. When the camera and projector are calibrated, the user can use any surface as a user interface touch, explained the site of Microsoft Research.

The merger produced the images, the user's fingers and motion detectors in a system, ensures special software that turns into a system of controls that allow writing letters on the keyboard, drawing, playing and things that ever used a keyboard, mouse or touch screen.

Hrvoje Bank, working in Natural Interaction Research at Microsoft, said the goal of this technology is to use an incredibly large surface which enables the real world. The device is currently in a stage looks a little uncomfortable, as it must be mounted on the shoulders, but with time you will achieve progress in terms of practical use. What is the device you see in the video.