New interface for gadgets augmented reality makes life simpler

Laziness - engine of progress. This saying, despite the playfulness, contains a grain of truth. Because many devices and appliances have become popular due to the fact that make life easier for the common man. Vacuum cleaners, microwave ovens, washing machines - all of this takes most of the work, so to speak, with a load of man, leaving the owner a lot of free time.

Many fear that our life in the end is like a life of fun tolstyachkov from the movie Wall-E. But now the judge of all this will not, let's better assess the idea that, like as, will make our lives even easier.

We are talking about the new interface for all sorts of gadgets augmented reality. This interface can be called thermal, because the system captures the human touch of a finger on a certain surface.



As a result - flipping through a magazine, you can immediately order any item from the page of the magazine (and this thing can not be any advertising, just part of the picture). Furthermore, this interface allows to start the game, for example, chess surface objectively empty coffee table.

Also, the system can also be useful to designers who can add virtual gadgets to a real model of your product. And the artist to be able to draw something with your finger in the air (but not until this technology became widespread, this may well be the artist to throw in the mental hospital to ask for a rest week or two).

In general, the interface developed guys from the company Metaio, will interact with the world as you usually interact with their own tablet / smartphone. Now the main part of the team - the creation of a reliable system of human gesture recognition, and adding all sorts of buns. With the advent of augmented reality devices widely available a software package will only bind to a particular gland.

Via VentureBeat

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