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Apple 3D display & Kinect-style tracking system still in labs
A newly filed Apple patent application suggests the company is still working on a Kinect-style 3D motion tracking system, that could create a virtual desktop responding to a user’s hand and finger movements rather than keyboard and mouse actions. The application, Three-dimensional imaging and display system, describes a system where “user input is optically detected in an imaging volume”: in short, both of a user’s hands are tracked in the space around an Apple computer, and on-screen or projected virtual controls – such as dials, buttons or pens – can be manipulated as if touching them in real life.
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