Microsoft is working on a next-generation technology that will enable ‘no-touch’ phones, tablets and televisions that can be operated from afar, without the need to swipe them.
According to Microsoft, the technology will allow users to control a screen with their fingers even from the other side of the room and put their hands through a screen to ‘touch’ objects.
The company is building an electronic bracelet that can detect movements in a person’s fingers, allowing them to imitate the actions of poking and flicking the screen to operate a device.
The bracelet would allow people to operate a television despite having their back turned or control a mobile phone with their hands in their pockets, ‘The Times’ reported.
Microsoft has also unveiled new interactive displays. Among them is a floating display, which gives the illusion of a globe spinning or a dragon flying, just inches above a flat monitor. Cameras and motion sensors then allow people to interact with these floating objects.
Another prototype allows someone sitting in front of a large screen to see a series of cubes. They can then “touch” these objects. This device operates by surrounding the screen with cameras that can detect the user and their movements, matching them to on-screen items.
Tim Large, a researcher from Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group, said that final versions of these displays will be ready in two to five years.
Source: Tech First . COM
According to Microsoft, the technology will allow users to control a screen with their fingers even from the other side of the room and put their hands through a screen to ‘touch’ objects.
The company is building an electronic bracelet that can detect movements in a person’s fingers, allowing them to imitate the actions of poking and flicking the screen to operate a device.
The bracelet would allow people to operate a television despite having their back turned or control a mobile phone with their hands in their pockets, ‘The Times’ reported.
Microsoft has also unveiled new interactive displays. Among them is a floating display, which gives the illusion of a globe spinning or a dragon flying, just inches above a flat monitor. Cameras and motion sensors then allow people to interact with these floating objects.
Another prototype allows someone sitting in front of a large screen to see a series of cubes. They can then “touch” these objects. This device operates by surrounding the screen with cameras that can detect the user and their movements, matching them to on-screen items.
Tim Large, a researcher from Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group, said that final versions of these displays will be ready in two to five years.
Source: Tech First . COM
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