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iPoint ideal
for 3D displays
The system will be ideal for 3D displays too |
Who would have thought that our
fingers could be a remote control? Thanks to top-edge research, you will
be using your fingers not to hold a remote control, but as a remote
control.
This new communication platform, called the ‘iPoint 3D’, just
requires users to move their hands in the air to do a variety of tasks
from switching on the light, turning the stove on/off and viewing any
image. Although hand-motion control systems already exist, primarily in
the video game market, this is the first such system that could see
widespread use.
With the iPoint 3D, users can communicate with a 3D display through
simple gestures, and that too without touching it and without 3D glasses
or a data glove.
The system has two built-in Fire Wire cameras that detect hands and
fingers in real time and transmit the information to a computer, says a
scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications,
Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, in Germany. When someone in front of the screen
moves his or her hands, the system responds instantly without any
physical contact or special markers.
Video gaming will be an ideal candidate for the system, but iPoint 3D
can be useful in a living room or of office, or even in a hospital
operating room.
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to the HHI scientist, the system is ideal for scenarios where contact
between the user and the system is not possible or not allowed, such as
in an operating room. The platform can be a means of controlling other
devices or appliances.
It will also be useful for artists, engineers and architects who can
view drawings from all angles by gesture control.
According to researchers, the finger is the remote control of the
future.
The HHI will present the iPoint 3D at CeBIT, the trade fair for
information and communication technologies, in Hanover, Germany. It ends
today.
- Pramod
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