Obscura VisionAire Interface

[wookieeassassin]

This could potentially be an amazing tool for presenters, but for a normal user using a giant projection display isn't very useful.

[aquarianAtila]

flashero...

[ytoaranda]

que lindo, en especial la última parte, cuando dibja en el aire....

[gnober]

wished the presenter didnt looked too "into it". =)

pretty awesome tech

[campincarl42]

Wow sweet some tool douche waving his arms around like retard. This video is extremely lame. How are any of you actually impressed? wtf?

[Dazabrit]

I think this is a great project but I've never liked the idea of interacting with this kind of technology without some kind of physical interaction.

I would like to see this idea with some kind of glass screen so you were manipulating the digital content on a glass plate but the audience could still see the presenter.

[nicegus]

actually, that's like what you described, but the glass is actually a thin transparent screen, where the content is projected. He can't touch the content because the screen is not like a iPhone screen, it's made of some kind of plastic material that can be cut.

[Smokie181]

are you talking about something like this in the video below?

vimeo(dot)com/5590750

Btw just wait until the 'next generation' of this tech come out!!

The first car invented was nothing compared to what cars are today.

[itrod123]

Alien technology?

[DeXtmL]

wooow, that's god damn coool!

[trey46]

I think you're missing the point, NN, that its a hologram. He's not touching a window or wall to make stuff move, like ubiq

[NearlyNubile]

It's a bit like Ubiq Window then? Ubiq has been around since, um, five years? Just how ignorant/gullible are YouTube users?

[1x93cm]

yah but they've never been particularly useful

[zenkonami]

This kind of tech is always shown with this demo of moving and resizing random polaroids around on a table. I mean, really? Who keeps anything organized like that? How does that show any practical application whatsoever? Gimmick. Marketing gimmick.

[patcon96]

yup. nobody will use it today. you are right. stay tuned.

[INSACK]

You can trash it all u want, but this is the beginning of a new era in technology.

[NearlyNubile]

Um, holographic technologies abound. And the likes of Ubiq Windows have been around for five years -- yes, five.

[AlyetAJ]

So they're projecting an animation and a guy is moving his arms around so it looks like he's interacting with it? Should that impress me?

[terahybrid]

do you really need such a powerful machine to run the app?

[PhinnFort]

I would say that for example KMando is better suited for presentations, so I don't really see what good this is for =)

Do you plan on releasing the source code?

[JL6667]

awesome

[macarion]

MUHH!

[openaddictdotcom]

Awesome work, guys! Very exciting technology!

Would you mind if I ask what language you developed this in and what platform is running it? How beefy is the system(s) running the application?

[patcon96]

hey, thanks. it is not perfect, but it is pretty cool.

it is running in an openGL application that we wrote. it can do scaling, annotation, rotation, etc on videos and photos, has google earth hooks (ill show you on the next video), can do teleconferencing and plays video games.

its currently running on a quad core xeon, 4gb ram and dual 128gb solid state drives.

the display is a musion screen. pretty simple actually, it is just the interface that is unique here.

[astroman12349384]

My Play Station Eye would do the trick better.

[DudeParallel]

Nice video.

While good for certain areas, prolonged use probably would put a lot of people off it.

I just wonder how precise it will be.

[patcon96]

hey there,

yeah, it is just a test. the software is actually pretty accurate for larger displays. maybe 2cm off at most.

[DudeParallel]

I'd say that is pretty accurate for any of the applications it would be used for anyway.

Just wondering, can this be used by more than one person?

If so, it would be great for groups of people working together, for example, in a lab.

[patcon96]

yup. as many as you can fit on the stage. more on that on the next video...if i get around to making one.

[m3141592]

He's behind a transparent screen and the video is projected onto it.

The tracking is either a camera capturing his hands, or maybe accelerometers. Or possibly that part is fake and he's just miming to a pre-recorded sequence.

I saw discrepancies in the tracking a few times. Could happen if it was camera based I suppose.

Good idea though.

[patcon96]

yeah, it uses a camera. it is real time, but the calibration was off. i could have made a better video, but just didnt think about it.

it uses a musion screen and sensors in his hands.

[pabarriu]

How can he avoid laugh!!...I would be with a big smile doing that!!!

[hyedipin]

I kept waiting for Princess Leia, but she didn't show up. What good is a hologram without the hot princess? :D

Otherwise, it is pretty slow and useless, people are getting lazier not more active, they want to use computers because they don't want to lift their ass, I doubt anyone would use such a technology.

Plus, how could you hide the porn when someone walks into your office? Is there a panic button! LOL

[cosmosmariner]

I'm not sure why you chose this video to grind your axe about slow, useless, and lazy. I would say people of vision will find marvelous uses for something like this.

Don't you have a typewriter ribbon to change or something? : )

[hyedipin]

Good Point, I don't see how you can use it if you are blind.

[wizardofkozz]

How could you possibly surf pr0n "successfully" when this interface seems to work best when using two hands? (Sounds like a Buddhist koan)

[hyedipin]

wizardofkozz, I can think of something else you can use to surf with this system. *cracking up!!*

[bendns5000]

But it's not for making people lazier. I am lazy and can't imagine having to move my arms around to view pictures...It takes a lot less work to move a mouse a few inches and click

[hyedipin]

Exactly, that's what I said, some people just can't read... Anyway, I agree, that's why I said people are getting lazier and don't want to move their ass to do anything, and that's why this would not pick up. Who wants to get off their ass to just view some pictures..

[heffeque]

"people are getting lazier not more active, they want to use computers because they don't want to lift their ass, I doubt anyone would use such a technology."

That sounds like something someone with a PS3 or an XBox360 would say, not what a Wii person would agree with though :-P

[maza1826]

impressive!

[nortexoid]

was that tom cruise?

[fewzebrank]

yes it's real "erSoem45YKg". it's the future in front of us

[erSoem45YKg]

is that real?

[bfob]

I'll take one! :P

[chyansie]

not getting my mind blown but its fuxing cool!!!!!!!

[JordanG247]

WOW, this is amazing I was thinking it would be cool if something like this existed the other day, I had no idea there actually was something like this. AWESOME!

[saintrichie]

Am I the only who's thinking Minority Report right now?

[Rogevine]

Nope :)

[Hamidxa]

Incredible.

[singhiskinnnng]

GTFOutta here!!!