“Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have created a Minority Report-style glove and iPad input system for three-dimensional virtual object manipulation called T(ether),” Electronista reports.
“The system lets the team use motion tracking on gloves to create and alter virtual items with the iPads used as a point-of-view window to see what the users are manipulating,” Electronista reports. A demonstration video shows the system having multiple users simultaneously affecting the compter-generated world, both with and without the glove.”
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“Not only can you reach into the virtual world and manipulate the objects you create there, but there’s a way to connect with others, locally or remotely, to collaborate within a shared 3D virtual space,” Rob LeFebvre reports for Cult of Mac. “Looks like all that virtual reality stuff from the late 1990s is coming around again, only with the iPad, an off-the-shelf computing system with plenty of power for this application.”
LeFebvre reports, “David Lakatos, one of the researchers involved with the T(ether) project, responded to our email asking about the system. He says, ‘The iPad is running an app compiled with the Cinder library, which is a C++ wrapper for openGL. We are not using the camera on the iPad – we use a Vicon motion-capture system (used in the film industry) to track the iPads location and orientation. The attached rectangle is what the motion-capture system tracks. By constantly tracking the 5 retroreflective dots on it, we can reconstruct the correct pose (position + orientation) of the iPad. We track the gloves with the same system.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Smell the glove!
To bad Steve isn’t still around. He would be staying up nights to figure out how to use the new stuff that is coming out so quickly now.
You’ve got to question the thought process on making a flash only video of an iOS device feature.
That’s funny. I must have a really special iPad then.
The video will not play on my iPhone 3GS. Is says please switch to a browser that supports H.264 or download Adobe Flash.
On the iPhone 4S the timer just spins. No video is shown at all.
Funny, worked just fine on my iPhone sans Flash. Maybe you have a device from the 1990s?
The video played fine on my first generation iPad using the Atomic Web browser.
Funny. Worked fine on my iPad, even AirPlayed to my TV.
Looks like fun, but far from practical at this point. Even for games.
Still, I hope they keep working on it.
I am SOOO ready for this tech. It enables an exponentially larger world of human interaction and translation of our 3D reality into the virtual world of computers. Gimme that tech right now! 😉
Not impressed. Go to leap.com – motion capture without the glove for $80.00. That’s something to sing about.