Posts Tagged ‘ubiquitous computing’
The invisible computer…
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Microsoft has announced a peripheral for their xbox, Project Natal, that scans 3D space and lets players control their system with their bodies, without a physical controller attached. Of course, you’re still working with a screen-based setup, so the applications have some limitations. But I can see the technology evolving to something much bigger than this. A big step towards ubiquitous computing that this concept of free body movement controlling is introduced to the larger public.
Take a look at the youtube movies, the 3D tracking seems to work quite well.
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/
http://www.youtube.com/xboxprojectnatal
In other news, SoftKinetic, a Belgian company, has also devised a similar system that lets you make controllerless gestures to control your TV.
Tags: gestures, ubiquitous computing
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