The Beyond Tool Lets You Manipulate Virtual 3D Objects
If you've been watching the Iron Man movie, you'd probably love the idea of being able to manipulate those 3D holographic images. Now a new tool created by the Tangible Media Group in the MIT Media Lab allows you to manipulate a virtual 3D object on a 2D touchscreen. Simply put, when pressed against the touchscreen, it'll extend virtually into the 3D space, allowing you to manipulate the object as if you're in that space, drawing, pushing, or adjusting as you wish. It's a pretty cool concept, and you can check out a video of it in action after the jump.
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Collapsable input device for 3D manipulation
Jinha Lee of the MIT Tangible Media Group designed this Collapsible Input Device for Direct 3D Manipulation beyond the Screen. It uses a combination of touchscreen and retracting sensor to make it possible to push into a screen, and interact with things below it's surface. [via theo's gallimaufry]
Relief: 3D interactive maps
Called a "scalable actuated shape display", this project by Daniel Leithinger, Adam Kumpf, and Hiroshi Ishii of MIT's Tangible Media Group seems especially suited for displaying terrain.
Relief is an actuated tabletop display, which is able to render and animate three-dimensional shapes with a malleable surface. It allows users to experience and form digital models like geographical terrain in an intuitive manner. The tabletop surface is actuated by an array of 120 motorized pins, which are controlled with a platform built upon open-source hardware and software tools. Each pin can be addressed individually and senses user input like pulling and pushing.
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