Moving pictures

February 15, 2007 | Source: The Engineer

A project combining 3D imagery with hand-tracking and speech recognition technology could change the way the next generation of computers presents information, as well as how we interact with it.

The system uses gesture recognition technology that tracks natural hand movements and uses the information to manipulate images. Speech recognition enables the user to turn, flip or resize 3D objects with simple verbal commands, and call up contextual information from the system using speech.

The system is based the HoloVizio system, which uses ‘quasi-holographic” technology to allow users to view the image from different angles with the naked eye and see different perspectives of the object simply by moving around it.