A No-Touching 3D Computer Interface

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @01:45AM from the in-development dept.

Justin Schunick points out a video demonstration of a 3D input system which senses the user's hand position, but without requiring the user to touch a controller or wear a trackable position indicator. From the provided description: "Utilizing the theory of electrostatics, we have designed a low-cost human-computer interface device that has the ability to track the position of a user's hand in three dimensions. Physical contact is not required and the user does not need to hold a controller or attach markers to their body. To control the device, the user simply waves their hand above it in the air."

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Re:Touch interface fitness required by Fred_A · 2009-04-28 02:18 · Score: 4, Interesting

Your arms are going to get tired very quickly using this interface...
Of course not, now you don't have to hold that heavy 5 gram light pen. No more gorilla arm syndrome !
This guy is a genius !
Um, wait.
Do the people who keep on re-inventing those interfaces actually ever ponder why each previous instance failed ?

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