Move over Kinect — Displair from Russia is a gesture interface in thin air

November 24, 2011 | Source: TechCrunch

(Credit: Desplair)

Displair, a Russian company from Astrakhan, has come up with a technology to project images into the thin air, and use gestures to move them.

The company uses a stream of cold fog to project images onto it and an infrared camera to capture gestures. Unlike oversized body movements that Microsoft Kinect analyze and process using motion camera and infrared depth sensors, Displair solves a bigger challenge of detecting and interpreting finer movements of hands.

When manufactured in large quantities, the device may cost between $4000 and $30 000.