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Total Interactive Display. By Holly Jacobus. A Meeting you can feel. With today’s technology you can have a meeting just about anywhere, in an office, a home, or outside. You can show your work on almost any surface too. Your computer, a tablet, the top of the table, and even the wall.
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Total Interactive Display By Holly Jacobus
A Meeting you can feel • With today’s technology you can have a meeting just about anywhere, in an office, a home, or outside. You can show your work on almost any surface too. Your computer, a tablet, the top of the table, and even the wall. • There are even companies like GE who have started developing software that allows users to view 3D models of equipment and manipulate the materials. • With this in mind I think that combining these technologies will allow for a completely immersive workroom for designers in the future. Where you can take a design from the computer surface and place it next to you in the 3D space to see what it would look like in real size and shape.
Surface & Table Displays • Surface display computers first started to appear in consumer sales in 2006, and have advance to be able to respond to multiple touches from different people and objects now. • Allowing for conference tables to become interactive computers business meeting, artist conceptual meetings, and doctor visits can all be vastly different. People in the meetings can gather around a surface display ranging from 40” to 90” and make changes at the same time instead of waiting to get near the small computer or tablet.
Digital Whiteboard Displays • Digital whiteboards give you the option of having an entire wall be your computer. You can browse the internet, open programs, and write to a notepad. • Uses for business and educational purposes are the highest on the list but medical practices are climbing also. As the ability to see and make changes to a document on such a large scale with many users is helpful.
Canvas Television • This television mimics your wall when not in use, and covers the entire room. Controlled by a tablet like the iPad you can have multiple screens in use on a single wall or multiple locations. • The room will even respond to the mood of the program being watched and change the lighting if needed.
Holographic Displays • Using sensors and cameras designed to specifically detect the users position, this system will determine where the user is and how they move within the space available. Then the user can manipulate the materials projected by the computer. • Right now the user must stay in a specific fixed spot in the room and only move their hands (which show as the blue light), but that soon may change.
Gesture Response Displays • There are many gesture recognition software companies today that are developing products to be used with other software. Combine a program like Omek’s Beckon gesture recognition and body tracking with a whiteboard office software and you don’t need to get far from your desk to make your presentation. • Put this software in a canvas television room and you have a truly immersive way to give a presentation all around you.
The Future • Having a computer that talks to you or where you can see items in the free space in front of you may be something only seen in movies or television now. • However I don’t think it will be long until it’s real, look at all these devices and software we have covered, separately they do all that is needed they just need to be put together and refined. • Then you too can have a computer like Iron Man.
References • Anyone Can Build an Enormous Next-Generation Jet Engine (In Holographic 3-D). (n.d.). Retrieved June 16, 2012, from Popular Science: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-05/building-holographic-jet-engine-worlds-largest-interactive-3-d-hologram-experience • Beyond Smart TV: 'Surfaces' Prototype Reveals the Television of Tomorrow. (n.d.). Retrieved June 15, 2012, from Gadget Lab | Wired.com: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/05/nds-tv-of-the-future/ • Image gallery - SMART Technologies. (n.d.). Retrieved June 15, 2012, from http://smarttech.com/us/About+SMART/About+SMART/Newsroom/Image+gallery • MERL – DiamondTouch. (n.d.). Retrieved June 14, 2012, from http://www.merl.com/areas/DiamondTouch/
References • Omek | Products. (n.d.). Retrieved June 16, 2012, from Omek | Products: http://www.omekinteractive.com/products/ • Open Sankoré | The Free Interactive Whiteboard Software. (n.d.). Retrieved June 16, 2012, from http://open-sankore.org/en • 'Surface' table: Samsung unveils 40-inch touchscreen that can 'feel' 50 hands at once. (n.d.). Retrieved June 14, 2012, from Mail Online: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2063300/Surface-table-Samsung-unveils-40-inch-touchscreen-feel-50-hands-once.html