ShadowPuppets prototype lets you pinch-to-zoom, click, and scroll with shadow gestures
Author: Conrad Thomas
AT&T’s just finished showing off what it’s cooking up in its labs, and one highlight is a little project called ShadowPuppets that might make you reconsider the usefulness of a pico projector smartphone. The idea is delightfully simple: use the shadows created by your hand to control your phone when projecting an image. Pinch-to-zoom is supported, but you can also just move your hand towards or away from the projector to zoom in or out, respectively. You can also swipe your hand left to right or up and down to pan and scroll, and you just have to point to click. In practice it all worked quite well and fluidly, though the demo only showed us interactions with the browser version of Google Maps running on an Alienware laptop. The hardware…
Popular Posts:
- Installing Virtue OLED Board & Laser Eyes in Dye DM9 Paintball Gun
- Bridging Digital and Physical Worlds With SixthSense
- Official Angry Birds 3 Star Walkthrough Theme 3 Levels 1-5
- HTC Schubert
- Hook Your Guitar to Your iPhone and Rock Out with iRig
Incoming search terms:
- Powered by Article Dashboard new pump technology
- Powered by Article Dashboard deaf groups
- Powered by Article Dashboard gestures in different cultures
Tags: 
