Carnegie Mellon University: Researchers at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon University have devised a system called SideBySide that enables animated images from two separate handheld projectors to interact with each other on the same surface.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
SideBySide Projection System Enables Projected Interaction Between Mobile Devices
Carnegie Mellon University: Researchers at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon University have devised a system called SideBySide that enables animated images from two separate handheld projectors to interact with each other on the same surface.
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SideBySide appears to be a cool usage of interactive camera/projector systems. I believe the camera tracking/projector combination has been done before for a lot of other project but what makes this really interesting is the networking between the two devices to make them interactive with each other. I also think it's great that they re-purposed a standard pico projector and started off with that, rather than trying to make everything from scratch. The only thing I'm wondering about what the scale and distance from a wall is in which the interaction would work. Also, how would one deal with focusing the projectors to keep the invisible QR-code-like object identifiers in focus enough to be recognized by the cameras?
This article quotes Karl D.D. Willis as saying, "Smartphones have made it possible for us to communicate, play games and retrieve information from the Web wherever we might be, but our interaction with the devices remains a largely solitary, single user experience." This puzzles me.
We, as humans, already have the ability to communicate, interact, and play directly with one another. Companies keep trying to translate that experience to technology. Why? I can play Scrabble on my iPad with someone else on their iPad. Why is that so much more appealing to me than just playing Scrabble face to face? Social networks are even more puzzling. Why have we created something where we can virtually talk to each other when we could LITERALLY talk to each other?
Sorry for that rant. I just find this fascinating.
This is amazing technology that Disney and CMU is working on to get a great device. I wonder if this technology will be used in an upcoming ride/attraction at one of their parks. It is very interesting that they just modified some of the things in a piko projector to get all the output that they need and then attached a few other thing to the outside unit. It definitely seems like a prototype and I hope that they put a few more projectors together to get this to work in full color. I hope that Disney allows other people then just themselves to work with this technology, maybe one of the upcoming iPhones with have this onboard and that would be really cool.
This is very exciting new technology that I believe may open the door to many new ways for interaction with technology. I am very intrigued to find out what this technology will be turned into. Will it become something that is incorporated into the average person’s daily life or will it simply be too expensive and fade into the background. Yes I understand what Pia is saying. Do we really need more electronic ways to interact with people? But still believe that this could turn into some amazing things.
The idea of having SideBySide interaction in regular handheld devices begins to bring the world of technology that flattened interaction back to life. Pia brings up a great point that we already were interacting, yet does the smartphone allow the interactions we once had come back into reality? The concept behind this technology is one that should definitely be explored. I also feel that the concept of bringing people back together face to face through this technology might help interactions today.
I must agree with what Pia has to say about how companies feel the need to constantly keep coming up with ways to interact through technology, when we can already do it just as well just face to face. Don't get me wrong Side by Side seems like a really cool piece of technology, but there are theories of technology becoming too strong in the future. In a recent article I read that society can't be kept from progressing in the field of technology, but if we don't take to precautionary measures it can possibly become too progressed. It says that technology could become stronger than man itself, and that is a scary thing to think about. We should sometimes just enjoy the simple old ways of getting things done without technological means.
I'm not interested as much in the application for video gaming, but I do think this technology demonstrates another development in the practical application of computer vision. We've moved from cameras able to detect simple motion, to cameras that can self calibrate entire systems. I think there is a distant reality where on-board intelligence can help a wagon not hit anybody or help moving lights hit their actors even if they miss their mark. Certainly this technology is a ways from being easily set up or adapted, but hopefully there is a future for a framework that can be shoehorned into our applications without too much pain.
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