
OmniTouch turns body parts and nearby surfaces into touch interfaces
Multitouch screens are so versatile and easy to use, why limit them to smartphones and tablets? Researchers have been working for several years to extend multitouch to arbitrary surfaces, but a project called OmniTouch from Microsoft Research and a PhD student at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University may bring it closer to reality. Read more »

Maxence Parache’s experimental augmented-reality system lets you detach your point of view from your body.
Image: The avatar for Dr. Brian Ross welcomes participants to an online training session using Xbox chat technology (Stephen Brashear photos/PSBJ)


Read the manual before using the interface. (Kinect Adventures)






