Via KurzweilAI.net — um, what’s to contend here. This is just amazingly cool. Can’t contend a tech is all there from a user standpoint — a single commenter referred to a loiter time would be disconcerting during this theatre of record — though a proof-of-concept is definitely amazing.
An invisible mechanism mouse
MIT Media Lab researchers have grown Mouseless, an invisible mechanism rodent that costs about $20 to build.
It uses an infrared (IR) laser lamp and an infrared camera. The laser lamp procedure creates a craft of IR laser just above a aspect a mechanism sits on. The user cups their hand, and a laser lamp lights up a palm that is in hit with a surface. The IR camera detects those splendid IR blobs regulating mechanism vision. The shift in a on all sides and arrangements of these blobs are interpreted as rodent cursor transformation and rodent clicks.
More info: Fluid Interfaces Group | MIT Media Lab
Here’s a video of a no-mouse rodent in movement (feel giveaway to omit a try during artistry with a Tom and Jerry animation intro.)
