EduGeek Journal

1 | Erin Jennings

January 4th, 2008 at 8:46 am

Awesome! I am really excited about multi-touch technology. We’re getting closer to being able to view a virtual object in 3D, turn it over in our ‘hands’, and actually feel the weight and texture of it through a haptic glove interface — which could have a great impact on education (as well as 3D modeling, one of my hobbies).

Here are links to some of the Johnny Lee Wii videos that are mentioned in the above clip:

Using the Wii remote to create a head-tracking 3D display: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

Using the Wii remote to create a multi-touch whiteboard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s5EvhHy7eQ

The best part about these experiments is that the researcher provides his software (for free!) on his website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

2 | Matt Crosslin

January 9th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

Looks like Samsung and Hilton have one-upped all of this:

A Wave of Information

The same concept will be appearing in Hilton hotel kiosks, but without the remote – just bare hands. Pretty cool.