And folowing on from Alan's research I have also seen a couple of projects that are using this type of technology to track specified objects through a CCTV / Web cam set up - something similar to what the Police uses to track faces in a crowd but a lot more effective!
Big Brother is watching! E. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Pope Sent: 30 May 2007 19:55 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this? On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 13:16 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: > What do you think? > > http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ > The result of a few years and a few million USD spent by the largest software company on the planet, and comparable with efforts done by individuals within the community. Jeff Hans work on multitouch displays and UIs is awesome and pre-dates the Microsoft stuff by some margin. http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKh1Rv0PlOQ Mirco Mullers lovely lowfat UI concepts would probably have also turned out similar results as the Microsoft stuff if he had backing and time. http://macslow.thepimp.net/?page_id=18 http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lowfat+linux&search=Search Pompeu Fabra Unis mesmerising "reactable". http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-RhyopUmc Cheers, Al. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
