Microsoft To License It 3D "Minority Report" Image Technology

Posted Jul 19, 2006 at 8:20PM EST by QJ Staff

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In an effort to make more money, "cash-strapped" Microsoft Corp. plans to license its TouchLight technology. The technology is designed to physically move images around using their hands. The technology was developed at Microsoft Research which is devoted to go crazy with outrageous ideas that may never make it as a Microsoft product.

In this novel interactive display technology, the outputs of two video cameras behind a transparent projection display are combined producing an image of objects on the display surface. It transforms an otherwise normal sheet of acrylic plastic into a high-bandwidth input/output surface suitable for gesture-based interaction similar to the featured in the film The Minority Report.

TouchlLight has various applications. Car or airplane manufacturers could use the technology to demonstrate a new product or to provide detailed views of different components. Its first licensee, EON Reality, said it planned to incorporate TouchLight into existing interactive display products.

Via MSNBC

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# sounds like fun — jsharrad 2006-07-19 21:30

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# umm — Guest 2006-07-19 22:00

cash strapped???

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# - — Guest 2006-07-19 22:31

I saw this in a talk at the Microsoft Research center in Cambridge last year, they had loads of weird things like this which they were developing.

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# sad that it sounds like it's too complicated to compact it — Guest 2006-07-20 00:31

two cameras, acrylic panel, and a transparent projection display?



they're betting too much on this already....just patent it and trap other big companies to infringing it!!!

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# Hmmm — Guest 2006-07-20 13:59

Sounds like that one phone commercial or w/e with Jay-Z, where he moves everything with his hands

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