Saturday, May 12, 2012

Microsoft Research\'s MirageTable brings some augmented reality for your tabletop

We got a glance at a holographic telepresence project from Microsoft Research earlier this week, but that's faraway from the sole Kinect-enhanced rig it's engaged on in this day and age. This setup dubbed a MirageTable was also shown off on the Computer-Human Interaction conference in Austin, Texas this week, offering a glimpse of 1 possible future where two people can interact with virtual objects on a table as though they were sitting across from one another (or just achieve this on their lonesome). To make that happen, the setup is dependent upon a ceiling-mounted 3D projector to display the pictures on a curved surface, while a Kinect on each end of the relationship both captures the person's image and tracks their gaze to be certain images are displayed with the appropriate perspective. That you may test it out in action after the break, although a number of the effect is lost without 3D glasses.



From WhatNewsToday.net

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