Any surface can become a virtual touch screen

Researchers from the North American University of Carnegie Mellon have developed a solution, called Worldkit, that allows you to create virtual touch interfaces on any surface.

Worldkit is designed to turn any site into a touch screen. The system that they have developed at Carnegie Mellon University, not Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania – USA), It consists of a camera that is mounted on the ceiling and a projector that, together, they record geometries of the room, as well as gestures and hand movements, and then project this interactive image on the desired surface.

Worldkit uses Kinect technology to perform recognition and detect motion, as well as to manage the interface that is capable of being projected on any surface.

This project is still in the development phase. University researchers are experimenting with a small device that could be screwed onto a lamp, which would include the projector and the depth sensor, so that it could reflect the interactive interface on the desired surface.

This prototype still has a limited resolution but the researchers hope that it can even allow interaction in open spaces..