Ubi turns any wall into a 3D display with Kinect

Ubi Interactive is a German startup that is working with Microsoft as part of the Kinect Accelerator Program (Kinect Accelerator Program) in the development of a system that uses a projector in combination with a Kinect sensor to create a virtual touchscreen that can be converted to almost any surface.

The German company Ubi Interactive has created a new way to develop touch screens based on the Kinect system created by Microsoft, which allows from browsing the Internet to the use of video games. Anup Chathotn, one of the founders of Ubi, has pointed out that "we can turn any surface into a 3D touch screen".

The system uses a Microsoft Kinect sensor to power on a regular projector on a multi-touch projection PC system, where powerpoints, websites, even games no longer require wireless clicks or mice to be navigated. When using Kinect motion sensor and depth perception cameras, Ubi is able to detect when a user is pointing, swipe and touch a surface and interpret these gestures as if you were performing it on a giant touchscreen or interactive whiteboard.

The company has demonstrated at its Seattle offices, where it works together with Microsoft to perfect its creation, turning on a conventional projector on a frosted glass panel suspended in the center of the room, the one that was illuminated with dim light. On the other side of the panel was installed a Kinect sensor, that captures the movements and gestures of the hands in front of the glass and send the data to the UBI software, running on the same Windows PC that sends the live image to a projector.

"It's like all gesture-based Windows Touch", Chathoth explained. "We wanted to start with an experience that everyone knows., but we can open our 3D gesture API, since you know exactly to what extent the tip of the finger of the surface is, when in fact it touches it, which is a click. When not being touched , becomes a suspended movement".

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