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Surface Computing

Turning everyday surfaces into interactive intelligent interfaces

Co-located input and output Mixed reality: tangible objects, natural interactions with direct manipulation

TouchLight
an imaging touch screen with some unique capabilities

Lunchbox interactive vision system

PlayAnywhere
Short-throw projector, very wide angle lens on the camera Lens distortion & projective transform correction for camera-projector alignment Off-axis IR LED illuminant

Very few assumptions about the appearance of the surface All calibration is done at the factory

Flow Move

Summarize optical flow field as simultaneous translation, rotation, scaling

Bluetooth Photo Sync

Mini PlayAnywhere

IR Laser Pointer Tracking


Track shaped laser pointer (hologram) Theoretically 6 degree of freedom Today, 4: position, depth, roll

AirStylus
With Mike Sinclair Activate by thumb and forefinger together

Surface Computing Challenges


Display and Sensing e.g. Projector + computer vision Interactions e.g. Two handed, multi-user Applications e.g. Mapping

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