Todays Augmented Reality A Lightbulb Is All You Need
Have you seen whats new in the world of augmented-reality displays? Well grab a lamp with a standard-size light bulb socket and turn your desk—or fridge, wall, or pretty much any other surface into an augmented-reality display that you can interact with. Just like you do with the screen of your smart phone.
Thanks to a project from researchers in the Future Interfaces Group at Carnegie Mellon University. Called Desktopography, it uses a depth sensor, a small projector, and a computer to project images onto surfaces; the projections can move around and stay out of the way of objects that are also on the surface. It screws into a lightbulb socket, and the latest prototype uses the lamp for power, says Robert Xiao, a graduate student who leads the project.
Using multiple fingers you interact with projected images like calculators and google maps projected onto any surface thanks to desktopography The projections can be linked to physical objects, too, so if you move a book across a table, a calendar projected on it can travel along.
While it’s still only in the testing stages, Xiao says Desktopography is an attempt to bring augmented reality to everyday life.Unlike Microsoft’s HoloLens and Meta’s Meta 2. It doesn’t require a headset to produce good-looking images, and unlike apps such as Pokémon Go, it doesn’t use a smartphone to make these virtual images appear in front of you.
“It’s about trying to break interaction out from our screens and our devices, where they’re separated from reality, and a separate world, really … and try to merge those onto our environment,” Xiao says.
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