Multi Touch Interaction: Useful for Maps and Surveillance?
If you've watched the Multi Touch Input video demonstration, you'll notice how intuitively the zoom feature is. You pull your fingers farther apart to zoom out and push them towards each other to zoom in.
Also intuitive is navigating a large map. You point where you want to go and pull that item closer to you.
This technology could be a major breakthrough for video surveillance. Instead of fumbling with controls to move the video camera at the correct angle, you point with your finger at the person or object in question and it immediately turns there. Then you can follow the person with your finger and make the camera move with it. You can also zoom in and out easily and quickly.
It could also be extremely useful as a replacement for current GPS systems in a car because of the dynamic nature of the map.
Most importantly, this technology would bring GPS's and other sorts of maps or videos to an older generation because of how intuitive the control is.
Visit Multi Touch Input for more information on this technology.
What do you think about these ideas? I'm very interested to hear how other people feel about this.
2 Comments:
That's some seriously crazy shit right there man. Imagine how cool it would be to use this stuff for tactical military planning or for real estate speculation
While not directly related to the technology of your post, it concerns some of the topics that you talked about. I know a French company called RealEyes 3d that has a mobile phone solution for map navigation that involves a camera. Using motion tracking from the camera you can zoom in and out and move side to side on the map by physically moving the phone around. It's pretty impressive when you see it. Using the camera for navigation may be a new revolution for mobile phones.
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