Tromso students put together the best interactive display wall we've seen yet (video)

Take everything you thought you knew about multitouch and throw it out. Okay, keep the Minority Report stuff, but throw everything else out. What we're looking at here is a 22 megapixel display, stitched together from the output of no less than 28 projectors (7,168 x 3,072 total resolution), which just happens to respond to touch-like input in a fashion even Tom Cruise would find fascinating. You don't have to actually touch the wall, floor-mounted cameras pick up your gestures in 2D space and a 30-node computer setup crunches all the computational and visual data to deliver some buttery smooth user interaction. For demo purposes, the makers of this system grabbed a 13.3 gigapixel image of Tromso and took it for a hand-controlled spin. See the mesmerizing show on video after the break.

[Warrio Posted Mar 24th 2010 11:59AM]

@WaltD
I don't really know! I have even sent them an email without getting an answer..
But it doesn't need to be that complicated. the more simple it is the better (but simplier) as Einstein said
here are some other things more simpler and more efficient than what's in this post or other tablets...

http://embed.break.com/Njg0MjEz (sorry for the add @ the beginning) with a simple portable camera and projector

and with a simple Wii remote control!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0awjPUkBXOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g_KqdWktrY

doesn't need necessarily a super computer :) and that's what I love about it! just imagine

[otherman Posted Mar 24th 2010 12:35PM]

I disagree with you engadget! These two companies have far more interesting technologies:
http://www.obscuradigital.com/
http://oblong.com/

[kyphem Posted Mar 24th 2010 12:50PM]

meh... how much?

[cdpage Posted Mar 24th 2010 1:03PM]

I see this showing up in the next NCIS: LA episode.

[Zslap Posted Mar 24th 2010 1:24PM]

why is it that i always watch the movie before reading the post....

[Ryback Posted Mar 25th 2010 8:38AM]

@Zslap
For the same reason you watch the movie instead of reading the book?

[neosplit Posted Mar 24th 2010 2:30PM]

I certainly do not want to discount that its impressive display, but there is nothing "new" in here. All the hand gestures are pretty much the same. They are just throwing in lot of processing power to make a huge display, thats all.

[newdna Posted Mar 24th 2010 4:11PM]

The poor seams and brightness variations of the projectors kind of ruins it for me.

[Geckomayhem Posted Mar 25th 2010 2:00AM]

This _is_ minority report. Wow, 13 gigapixels is insane!

[mholzma Posted Mar 29th 2010 12:25PM]

I've seen a couple companies do this only using 2 cameras to triangulate the position of the hands.