Disney, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, recently revealed their prototype for a new smartwatch that actually interacts with real world things. It uses what they are calling “EM-Sense.” It can detect and recognize those unique EM levels when the person wearing it makes contact with an object. The human body is
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Disney Research Side by Side Interactive Hand Held Projectors
SideBySide is a novel interactive system that allows multiple people to play and work together using handheld projectors at any time and anyplace. The system is immediate and simple: users simply project onto a surface and their projection becomes aware and responsive to other projections nearby. Interaction can range from
Disney’s Body-Mounted Cameras Turn Motion Capture Inside Out
Traditional motion capture techniques use cameras to meticulously record the movements of actors inside studios, enabling those movements to be translated into digital models. But by turning the cameras around — mounting almost two dozen, outward-facing cameras on the actors themselves — scientists at Disney Research, Pittsburgh (DRP), and Carnegie
