It’s very strange that Google Glass is not mentioned once in this news segment. Researchers at Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) have developed this eyeglass-based display, below, that uses images projected onto the lenses, and depth cameras focusing beyond the lenses, to create the functional illusion of operating a “floating touchscreen”:
ITRI is simply the latest research group to use depth cameras to track our fingers, which then triggers a microprocessor to recognize that as an actionable “touch.” Most recently we saw this with Fujitsu Labs’ FingerLink Interaction System. So you might wonder why we’re looking at this—isn’t this just a combination of existing technologies that we’ve all seen before? It is, but so was the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad when they first came out.
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