Pioneer develops input device for 3D drawing
Pioneer has just announced a promising new technology that may one day allow designers to "draw" in 3D space and have the results displayed on-screen. Basically an LCD display framed by a spatial sensor and a 3D camera, the Pioneer device allows users to move their fingers around the "box" created by the frame, where proprietary software takes over and translates the movements into displayed artwork. Right now a prototype of this device only allows users to manipulate the third dimension up to a maximum depth of several inches, but we can see future iterations of this becoming quite useful tools someday, allowing designers to easily create 3D mockups that can be sent directly to a fab lab. Or something like that.
[Via Akihabara]
