If you do not know me personally, well I can tell you that I am a student of interaction design; this means I am interested in the realms of the future and how we deal with digital technology. Naturally there will be some posts in here that concern this field of interaction design, but only because it is interesting, and we may benefit in learning from it. There is too much going on, if I don´t keep a track of any of it I will become a dinosaur.
Light Blue Optics have publicized a teaser of sorts of a technology worth becoming familiar with. Now that the transportation industry is implementing head up display systems on glass, prone to restrictiveness of information abundance, here is a version of the same technology applied to domestic surfaces. The difference is, well the mobility it seems. Considering the context in this exhibition display it is not as mobile as they´d like to show in their glossy/photoshopped renders, although this is fresh new so who of us knows, where the next step is.
“Light Touch™ is an interactive projector that instantly transforms any flat surface into a touch screen. It frees multimedia content from the confines of the small screen, allowing users to interact with that content just as they do on their hand held devices – using multi-touch technology.
Light Touch™ has Holographic Laser Projection (HLP™) technology inside which creates bright, high-quality video images in WVGA resolution. Integrated infrared sensors detect motion and turn the projected image into a 10.1″ virtual touch screen, so the user can control the projector and interact with applications simply by touching the image.”
They illustrate the concept of HLP further on their website.
I found this via itsnicethat, a good blog source for covering the creative industry. It´s not flashy and it´s quick and simple. I like that.
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