Posts Tagged haptics
Microsoft Project Natal: Must have consequences for Presentations
Posted by Steve Wylie in Live vision systems on June 5, 2009
Microsoft has released information about it’s new XBox games platform, dubbed Project Natal. The system uses a 3D camera to allow participants to interact with games without requiring a controller – it detects the people in the room and translates their real movements to commands in a game.
We’ve already seen the guys at pptPlex working on using much the same 3D camera technology to control PowerPoint – and I’m sure that it’s just a matter of time before great things happen in this space – I could imagine some really neat interaction with a system like Dataton Watchout. We’ll see…
More information about the Project Natal platform on the XBox website.
Haptic control of PowerPoint (Wii remote, 3D cameras, touch gestures)
Posted by Steve Wylie in Live vision systems, Speaker support content on May 25, 2009
I think the PowerPoint 2007 add-on, pptPlex really resembles one of the future shapes that live presentation content will take. It’s even more interesting to look at some of the R&D the development team have been doing with interactivity.
The pptPlex team has posted about experiments interacting with pptPlex using a 3D camera and a Wii controller – this really ‘haptic’ approach to presentations is so natural and surely represents the goal for a progression from the standard remote slide advance button and laser pointer.
They’ve most recently been testing pptPlex in combination with the touch-screen capabilities of Windows 7. If used in combination with a multitouch display or touch-sensitive projection screen sensors, this will be really exciting stuff for live presentations.
Touch screen demo (via pptPlex Website)