Tuesday, 12 February 2008

Moveable Projected Displays

In a recent lecture, Deborah one of our lecturers, showed us a clip of a moveable projected dislay:


We were asked to think of ways this new technology could be used in the modern world. As it has not been fully implemented into any product yet, there are numerouse areas which this application can be used.
Firstly it provides a cheap way of doing this actual thing of tracking & projection, all that is needed is a projector, software and of course tracking sensors with a tablet board. Some modern laptops today are tablet based, this provides much more flexibilty in the way you can use your laptop:

You can use this type of tablet laptop to do many things which a normal computer can't, such as write or sketch. This new projected display could be a cheap way of producing a tablet laptop which would still keep the computing power but have much more flexibility and control.

It could also be used as an educational tool. For example, a room could be fitted with multiple projectors. These projectors could be used with multiple display boards for each of the students. Or alternatively, the board at the front could be interactively active. This meaning the board while already being interactive and touch sensitive, could also be moved around to demonstrate concepts. One example could be physics such as gravity. By moving the board around, you could simulate different types of physics.

Other ideas could include simulation and 3d holograms. A way of creating a 3d image which could interactivly be used to train upon, or used. Such as flying a plane or operating on an organ.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

how much are tablet laptops?