Images of the world premiere of our multi-functional presentation and discussion table/white board have just been added!
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From February 5-7, we will present the latest result of the Media Interaction Lab at Austria’s Trade Fair for Information Technology and Telecommunication (ITnT).
Make sure coming to the exhibition. You will enjoy Flux, a hybrid between interactive table and whiteboard, at the Microsoft booth right in the center of hall A, Messezentrum, Vienna.
Interactive, multi-touch devices are rapidly increasing in popularity across many industries. Flux allows multiple modes of interaction in a variety of configurations, allowing increased flexibility, usability and productivity. Flux’s application interface is automatically optimized for the intended use depending on its orientation. Flux can be used as a sketch board, a discussion table or a white-board. Transformation between different orientations is single handedly achieved easily and elegantly.
We just uploaded more press-related material in our press section. Now you can download our logo in several formats and the MIL Icon.
From Feb. 5-7, 2008, the Media Interaction Lab will present a brand-new interactive table and whiteboard at the Austrian exhibition ITnT, Vienna. You will find our device at the Microsoft booth in the corner “Innovation Microsoft”. This table has been developed together with the furniture company Team 7. The project is also supported by voestalpine Informationstechnologie, Nortel, and AMS Engineering.
Nortel is working with the Media Interaction Lab to study remote conferencing solutions of the future based on multi-touch and pen-based interactive collaboration techniques.
On December 17, 2007 Raimund Dachselt gave a presentation about “Three Dimensional Interaction Techniques and Zoomable User Interfaces for Mixed Reality Applications”. Currently, Raimund is an associate professor at the University of Magdeburg. During his visit at the Media Interaction Lab, we decided to work together on new collaborative tabletop applications. More details about his talk can be found here.
A view weeks ago we posted a video about using the Wiimote for tracking fingers. This technique was extended recently to track pens on any flat surface like a projection screen or even a laptop display. According to Johnny Chung Lee the Wiimote can track up to four points simultaneously.
This week we got our hands on the brand new Toshiba ex20 short-throw projector to test it in a rear projection setup. Some facts about the projector: XGA, 130% lens offset, ~0.68 throw-ratio (distance-to-image-width), 2300 Ansi lumen, DLP.
The test results were quite good. Because of the high lens offset it’s easy to use in combination with a mirror. The mirror and projector can be simply mounted in a angle of 90°. Furthermore, the projected image was really good. Especially, the usual DLP-”rainbow/flickering” was not strongly visible. At least not for our human eyes.
A drawback we figured out is the chroma error of the lens. At the top of the image the blue/yellow distortion is about the size of one pixel as it is visible in this picture. After some more tests we figured out that the yellow color is really nice after all. The test images yellow just wasn’t saturated enough.
A really impressive presentation was given at ICAT 2007 by Jonathan J. Hull (Ricoh). In his talk, Jonathan presented “Paper-Based Augmented Reality”, where he demonstrated a clickable paper. Check out this website for further information.
An interesting video about how to use the Wiimote for finger tracking.
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