Apologies to the Gestulative Mouse idea for which this was insipiration, but I wonder whether the technology's now clever enough to have a minority report kind of interface where your screen is projected onto a wall, and you're viewed with a webcam facing the wall. This bit of software interprets the angles (and therefore what you're pointing at on screen) and hey presto you can move stuff around.

P.S. a bit like the eyetoy, if you've seen one of those.
-- neilp, May 09 2005

MIT http://www.newscien...rticle.ns?id=dn7271
how the MIT are doing it [neilp, May 09 2005]

Gesticulative Mouse gesticulative_20mouse
sort of there. [neilp, May 09 2005]

eyetoy http://www.eyetoy.com/english/
if I had a playstation, I'd buy one. [neilp, May 09 2005]

... And if you don't have a playstation, buy and eyetoy anyway and give it to me. Yes, I have a playstation 2, and a playstation 1 and a Gamecube. There is also my brothers sega megadrive somewhere...
-- froglet, May 09 2005


Come on neil, isn't this too much of a WTCTTISITMWIBNIIWR?
-- Acme, May 09 2005


it's a bit like that, [Acme], only I've proposed a cheap method (desktop webcam, software) to achieve the same. All other methods use black gloves and reflective dots, which sort of does away with the spontanaeity for me.
-- neilp, May 09 2005


OK then.
-- Acme, May 09 2005


I don't think it's a WTCTTISITMWIBNIIWR as he is not idly wishing such a thing were real, rather he is proposing how to make it real.
-- bristolz, May 09 2005


Yes, that was me.
-- njivy, May 09 2005


[Pa've] you need to read the help file :)
-- neilp, May 10 2005



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