WAVEscape
by Aaron Bell
I’m not sure how many of you folks keep up with the activities of CES (probably a lot!), but I wanted to mention a project that my brother developed with his company, Reactrix. Originally, Reactrix was involved in overhead-mounted displays that one walks over and causes a reaction in the image projected below. However, at CES, they released something called WAVEscape, which uses some sort of system to identify objects in 3d space in front of the screen and allows people to interact with the screen similar to a multitouch display, but without actually touching anything.
All in all, it is a pretty nifty creation!
Here is a sample video:
Also see Gizmodo’s article and related video and C|NET’s article about the product and its applications.