wraggster
May 1st, 2012, 01:27
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[Bastian] sent in a coffee table he built (http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewthread/13946/). This isn’t a place to set your drinks and copies of Make, though: it’s a multitouch table with a 3D display. Since no description can do this table justice,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CbiOikirrg&feature=player_embedded.
The build was inspired by the subject of this Hackaday post (http://hackaday.com/2011/07/02/3d-display-using-a-kinect/) where [programming4fun] was able to build a ‘holographic display’ using a regular 2D projector and a Kinect. Both builds work on the principle of redrawing the 3D space in relation to the user’s head – as [Bastian] moves his head around the coffee table, the Kinect tracks his location and moves the 3 dimensional grid of boxes in the opposite direction. It’s extremely clever, and looks to be a promising user interface.
In addition to a Kinect, the coffee table uses a Microsoft Surface-like display; four infrared lasers are placed at the corner and detected with a camera next to the projector in the base.
After the break you can see the demo video and a gallery of the images [Bastion] put up on the NUI group forum.
http://hackaday.com/2012/04/30/multitouch-table-uses-a-kinect-for-a-3d-display/
[Bastian] sent in a coffee table he built (http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewthread/13946/). This isn’t a place to set your drinks and copies of Make, though: it’s a multitouch table with a 3D display. Since no description can do this table justice,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CbiOikirrg&feature=player_embedded.
The build was inspired by the subject of this Hackaday post (http://hackaday.com/2011/07/02/3d-display-using-a-kinect/) where [programming4fun] was able to build a ‘holographic display’ using a regular 2D projector and a Kinect. Both builds work on the principle of redrawing the 3D space in relation to the user’s head – as [Bastian] moves his head around the coffee table, the Kinect tracks his location and moves the 3 dimensional grid of boxes in the opposite direction. It’s extremely clever, and looks to be a promising user interface.
In addition to a Kinect, the coffee table uses a Microsoft Surface-like display; four infrared lasers are placed at the corner and detected with a camera next to the projector in the base.
After the break you can see the demo video and a gallery of the images [Bastion] put up on the NUI group forum.
http://hackaday.com/2012/04/30/multitouch-table-uses-a-kinect-for-a-3d-display/