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Is It The End Of Mouse? Here Comes 3DTouch

The device uses three types of sensors, a 3D accelerometer, a 3D magnetometer and a 3D gyroscope to improve your experience

 

If there is anything that hasn’t changed in computers over the years, it has to the mouse. While there have been new technologies have changed, the basic design and the way it has been used has remained the same.

The biggest disadvantage is that we are limited to two-dimensional movements, but now an intelligent wearable, ‘thimble,’ adds the depth and you can interact with computers in 3D fashion.

Thimble sits on the end of the finger and interacts with the computer sensing its positions accurately in three dimensions. This device has been developed by Anh Nguyen and Amy Banic Anh Nguyen and Amy Banic from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Wyoming in the US.

The device uses three types of sensors, a 3D accelerometer, a 3D magnetometer and a 3D gyroscope to improve your experience. ScienceAlert.com quoted MIT Technology Review saying that the three sensors, "allows the data from each sensor to be compared and combined to produce a far more precise estimate of orientation than a single measurement alone. In addition, the 3DTouch has an optical flow sensor that measures the movement of the device against a two-dimensional surface, exactly like that inside an ordinary mouse.”

What is interesting is that the device also does all the basic job of the mouse like selecting and dragging, finger tap, double tap, and click. Along with this if you have two devices then it can be worn on each hand to enable ‘multitouch’ interaction.

The team has published the research that went into the device online at arXiv.

"Overall, these guys have an interesting device on their hands that could be coming to fruition at precisely the right time,” says MIT Technology Review.

Still in its nascent stage, the design needs a fresh touch and may well undergo a lot of changes before the technology reaches the masses.


TAGS: 3D gesture control, 3DTouch

 
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