Sphere: A Multi-Touch Interactive Spherical Display
I came across this multi-touch device while researching for my final year project. It definately an approach I didn’t consider! It is definitely an avant-garde approach to multi-touch technology.
Microsoft’s multi-touch interactive spherical display, appropriately called “Sphere”, is a prototype that uses custom optics hardware as well as computer vision and graphics software to enable interaction on a 360 spherical surface. Global Imagination’s Magic Planet digital video globe was the basis and inspiration for Microsoft’s “Sphere”.
Taking its Surface touch-screen technology to another level “Sphere” is Microsoft’s bid to create the next hot, cutting-edge product in the world of touch-screen interaction, which for all intents and purposes is the next generation of user-computer interfacing. A technological revolution first set in motion essentially by Apple’s iPhone.
Click here to visit the microsoft sphere research website.
