Multi-touch 3D interactive table lets you touch 3D content
3D images aren’t meant to be touched, a reason no wise mind ever thought of clubbing 3D images and multi-touch screens, that until Jean-Baptiste de la Rivière and colleagues from Immersion, a simulation company in Bordeaux, France thought it was possible and combined the two for our good in their interactive 3D table-top display.
Displayed last week at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics and animation conference in Los Angeles, the interactive 3D table requires the users to wear polarized (active shutter) glasses for best experience. The best part of the interactive table is its quality of providing the same effect and view to two different people watching the content from different sides of the table, this courtesy the special glasses which are connected to position and orientation sensors to track the wearer's sight and edit the images in real time to match the onlooker’s perspective.
Because of the multi-touch on the 3D table display the users can also touch it, to zoom in or rotate the content, this without breaking the 3D illusion.
Video credit/Via: NewScientist
