Physical hands turn virtual: Get your hands inside a TV and grab things

An enthusiastic media student has developed a ground-breaking way to convert your physical hands to virtual ones. For this, you just have to put your hands inside a monitor through a gateway aside. Jayne Vidheecharoen from the Art Center College of Design, California has invented the technology using two monitors and gateways aside. Well, with your hands, you can now grab things inside a screen.

Monitor you can enter hands and grabs things

In the prototype of the technology by its inventor, the internet connected monitor has Google Streetview in the backdrop courtesy of a green screen. The designer is seen grabbing the objects of the Streetview (watch the video below). What is spectacular is that the tech allows you to manipulate and move around the objects in the Streetview with your real hands. The researcher is still working with her innovative virtual reality project.

Vidheecharoen sat up with this bizarre project wondering what if she could interact with a computer getting inside, instead of touching its screen just from outside. Well, we all are familiar with the idea of interacting with a computer from outside. We have touchscreens to interact with a TV, monitor or other displays. But in this virtual reality project, Vidheecharoen approaches interaction with a computer or display from inside. She has initially succeeded in her efforts.

The designer, who calls the project the Portal, has put up a prototype model of her invention. The video below brings to you a clear picture of her project. As the designer gets her hands into the monitor, there appears a virtual form of her hands on the screen. Using real-life hands, the designer moves the objects in the Google Streetview. Quite amazingly, as the monitor is connected with internet, the part of hands inside the screen can be shared with friends.

The prototype contains a pair of boxes. Each box has a screen on the front and a gateway on the side to enter hands inside. The designer wants to renovate the model with more advanced parts. Currently, she has prepared the prototype of the technology using some cheap components. She lists the parts in her blog as a duct tape, a desk lamp, an end table, fabric scrap, a borrowed monitor and a cheapest possible webcam. Right now, she is looking for funds to modernize the project with some high-end parts.

For the purpose, Vidheecharoen presented the project on Kickstarter looking for financial support to buy better components. The project has so far attracted $2,853 in a few days from 118 backers. Using the Kickstarter funding, Vidheecharoen plans to buy a pair of monitors and return the borrowed monitor.

Further, the designer wants to buy HD webcams, materials to build cases, a copy of Dragonframe and some high quality sensors to convert the Portal an advanced one. As per analysts, the Portal project will realize a new experience in virtual reality. Maybe the technology can be harnessed for gaming, educational and many other purposes in future.

Via: DailyMail/Kickstarter