Virtual User Interface
New way to interact with games
About Project
The electronic games webcam market is led by the Sony eye toy, which is a CCD camera, which interfaces with the Sony play station and allows the user to see their image in the virtual gaming environment. A limitation of the current technology is that there is no perception of depth. This severely restricts the development of games for products such as the Sony eye toy.
Virtual User Interface 1 (VUI1) is a novel device that connects to display devices and game consoles and allows the user to interact with them using nothing but free space.
Solution Details
Virtual User Interface 1 (VUI1) is a novel device that connects to display devices and game consoles and allows the user to interact with them using nothing but free space. VUI 1 provides single plane of interaction. Only motion through this plane triggers an event, allowing the user to move freely away from the VUI. As an interactive creativity tool, the user will be able to solve puzzles in space. As a games tool the user will be able to play more involving games than possible with current games webcam.
Product succession would bring multiple planes of interaction and finally full 3D interaction will be possible. The enclosure is designed to accommodate these product successions.