Augmented Reality on Your Desk—All You Need Is a Lightbulb Socket
...the premise behind a project from researchers in the Future Interfaces Group at Carnegie Mellon University. Called Desktopography, it uses a small projector, a depth sensor, and a computer to project images onto surfaces; the projections can move around to stay out of the way of objects that are also on the surface. It screws into a lightbulb socket, and the latest prototype uses the lamp for power, says Robert Xiao, a graduate student who leads the project.
If you place an object—say, a cup—on the area where one of the images is projected, software helps it quickly move to an open spot.
“It’s about trying to break interaction out from our screens and our devices, where they’re separated from reality, and a separate world, really … and try to merge those onto our environment,” Xiao says.
Xiao is trying to be realistic, saying it could take about five years to make his project a real product.
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