I previously wrote on the fogscreen display system. Just as interesting as the display system is a demo of the hand gesture control concept. Here hands point in space and the display responds with electric ink. There must be a video tracking system trnslating the movements into mouse controls. I can forsee systems where control systems like this would follow a surgeon’s hands. Just like Tom Cruise in Minority Report (before he jumped on couches).


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[…] Engadget reports on IO2 Displays new M3 Heliodisplay system. I have written before on these systems and played with them a bit (here is a video of my furry arm in one). They are similar in many ways to fogscreen (video here) in that they all display a pseudo floating image on a film of water vapor fog. Newer versions add gesture controlled interactvity. I cannot stress enought how much I believe gesture control will transform surgery. […]
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