Real Time Tracking Interacts With Augmented Reality

August 13, 2009 · Posted in Augmented Reality · 3 Comments 

Alvaro Cassinelli from the University of Tokyo has published about his ‘Smart Laser Scanner for Human-Computer Interface‘, a method of tracking objects in real time. It works by emitting a focussed beam of laserlight and scanning any interference the beam runs into. Basically it will be able to track your finger once it has found it in the path of the beam, in all three dimensions.

Combining this method of sensing objects in the 3D physical world with the layering possibilities of augmented reality is going to help us manipulate data directly with our hands as the computer figures out what we are are ‘touching’.

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