Friday, January 22, 2010
Ubice = Multi-touch On Ice at the Nokia Research Center in Finland (Video + Pic via Albrecht Schmidt)
Watch how the multi-touch surface is built from ice blocks:
The following pictures are from Albrecht Schmidt's User Interface Engineering blog:
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What a great idea for a "Winterfest"! They should take it to the next level: Multi-touch ice sculpture.
(Cross-posted on the Interactive Multimedia Technology blog.)
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Video: Nokia Services + Intelligent Adaptive Devices: Interactive content & communication across platforms, screens, and situations
Nokia's The Way We Live Next 3.0 conference was held November 10-11, 2009, and I was fortunate to come across the concept video shared during the opening presentation.
-Via Putting People First and Nokia Conversations
RELATED
Nokia The Way We Live Next 3.0 Putting People First post
The Way We Live Next: Social apps and open-source R&D (Jesse Sutton 11/11/09, Wired UK)
(Discusses Life Tools, Health Radar, Mobile Job Hunt applications.)
Nokia- life in 2015 (JBC, Nokia Conversations, 11/11/09 - a review Heikki Norta's presentation. Norta is head of corporate strategy.)
Multiplying our Efforts (pdf) Presentation: Henry Tirri, SVP, Head of Nokia Research Center
Communities creating Computers – Computers connecting Communities (pdf) Presentation: Peter Schneider, Head of Technology Marketing, Maemo Devices, Nokia
Communities of the Future (pdf) Presentation: Purnima Kochikar, VP, Head of Forum Nokia & Developer Community
Go Mobile with Cash (pdf) Presentation: Teppo Paavola, VP, General Manager of Mobile Financial Services, Nokia
SOMEWHAT RELATED
The Nokia Braille Reader (Experimental)
The Nokia Braille Reader is a joint project between Nokia, Tampere University, and the Finnish Federation of Visually Impaired.
Cross-posted on Interactive Multimedia Technology
Monday, September 21, 2009
Mixed Reality at the Nokia Research Center: Creating an interfaced and connected world!
The people at Nokia Research Center are working hard at creating an interfaced world. The video provides a few examples of what we might expect in the near-to-mid future:
YouTube Description:
"This concept allows to you to experience immersion and effortless navigation in new ways. New types of interactions involving near-to-eye displays, gaze direction tracking, 3D audio, 3D video, gesture and touch. Through these new types of social linkages people will be connected in innovative ways between the physical and digital worlds."
Nokia's future-looking projects look have many features that support the concept of world-as-interface. Mobile phones will be transformed into mobile magic lenses "which lets users look through the mobile’s display at a world that has been supplemented with information about the objects that it sees." The web will blend with reality through Nokia Image Space, and allow people to upload pictures and related information that can be accessed and explored in a variety of ways, through mobile phones or traditional browsers. Near-to-Eye Displays will be used to augment mobile interfaces, and incorporate gaze tracking technologies.
The physical world will blend with the digital: "Through the use of haptic feedback, and other technologies just being invented, our interaction with the digital world and with each other will become more integrated and tangible. Being able to “feel” when a friend is close by through a shirt that hugs you is one example. Tapping a friend on the shoulder from miles away. Having your shoes vibrate if you take a wrong turn, or walk into a bad area of town".
RELATED
Nokia Research Center
Mobile Mixed Reality (pdf)
Nokia Image Space
Nokia Point and Find
Metaverse Roadmap Project
Metaverse Roadmap Overview (pdf)
Developing Gaze Tracker for Diffractive-Optics-Enabled Near-to-Eye Displays
Hyperlinking Reality via Phones - MIT Technology Review
Virtual Reality Continuum
