TOUCH Issue 8: Touch Technology of the Future
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Augmented Reality
Fujitsu Labs are experimenting with
technology that essentially turns all
surfaces into a touch screen surface.
You place any object on a specially
designed table and the camera set-up
tracks the movements of your hands and
can detect and respond to your contact
[on whatever surface]. An example of
its use is if you have a book on the table
and you want to “highlight” a certain
portion of text, it can do that for you,
based on where you contact the page
and how you move your hand after that
contact.