Lonely gamers reach out and touch RePro3D characters (w/ video)
Saturday, September 17, 2011 - 03:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Lonely gamers who have felt the pain of being separated by a screen from their favorite personalities now have a way to reach out and touch their game characters, and that new way is RePro3D. A group of researchers from Keio University in Japan have come up with a 3-D screen that lets the user, glasses-free, see and "touch" characters on the screen. The word "touch" is in quotes because the technology is about a 3-D parallax display with infrared camera that recognizes the movements of the user's hand and the character on the screen reacts to the movements instantly.