[AG-TECH] Have you seen this?

[Rick Stevens]

John, can you send a reference for the this demonstration ?

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, John I Quebedeaux Jr wrote:

> I just got back from SIGGRAPH in San Diego. Some of the areas of 
> technology presented was using sensing technology to design and 
> research interactive spaces... which included positioning what you 
> wanted to view via projector on any wall that you happened to be near. 
> This used projectors (with a mounted motorized mirror) and cameras just 
> like we using in the AG rooms. It would use a mirror to aim the 
> projection at any appropriate surface. The cameras were used to "see" 
> what you were doing and where you were looking and react accordingly. 
> The computer tracking was very good with multiple people in that it 
> would not be distracted and track someone else - it "locked on" and you 
> couldn't shake it loose! (except by leaving the area it tracked. 
> <grin>).
> 
> So, in terms of the AG, position the projection on the wall that the 
> subject was next to or looking at.... even down on the table.... all 
> based on where you focus your attention. I couldn't help thinking about 
> the AG and how this technology might be applied.
> 
> They also showed projecting your "desktop" at any surface you wished to 
> use as well as interacting with it by having a camera watch you (making 
> any surface a "touch screen"). I wouldn't mind having my data screen 
> presented on the table/wall/where ever where I can point and gesture 
> and control from.
> 
> -John Q.
> 
> -- 
> John I. Quebedeaux, Jr.
> Computer Manager / Louisiana Biomedical Research Network
> LSU Biological Sciences / 131 Life Sciences
> e-mail: johnq at lsu.edu / web: http://lbrn.lsu.edu
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> 
> On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 08:01  AM, Barbara A. Kucera wrote:
> >
> >  From:John I Quebedeaux/johnq/LSU at ncsa.uiuc.edu on 08/01/2003 10:01 AM 
> > EST
> >
> >  Hi Bob,
> >
> >  I came across this and immediately thought of the AG . . . and how
> >  to avoid
> >  having empty AGs displayed on the wall.
> >
> >  http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_072903.asp
> >
> >  Barbara
> >
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