Serial Digital » haptics http://www.serialdigital.com Notes on presentation graphics and vision systems Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:14:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Microsoft Project Natal: Must have consequences for Presentations http://www.serialdigital.com/2009/06/05/microsoft-project-natal-must-have-consequences-for-presentations/ http://www.serialdigital.com/2009/06/05/microsoft-project-natal-must-have-consequences-for-presentations/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:47:32 +0000 Steve Wylie http://www.serialdigital.com/?p=221 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.

]]> http://www.serialdigital.com/2009/06/05/microsoft-project-natal-must-have-consequences-for-presentations/feed/ 0 Haptic control of PowerPoint (Wii remote, 3D cameras, touch gestures) http://www.serialdigital.com/2009/05/25/haptic-control-of-powerpoint-wii-remote-3d-cameras-touch-gestures/ http://www.serialdigital.com/2009/05/25/haptic-control-of-powerpoint-wii-remote-3d-cameras-touch-gestures/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 11:28:13 +0000 Steve Wylie http://www.serialdigital.com/?p=168 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)

Touch screen demo (via pptPlex Website)

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