Microsoft demonstrated "touch screen" on any surface

Microsoft Research has launched a new technology can turn any surface into a touch screen at a symposium on user interface takes place this week in Santa Barbara, California.
Known as the OmniTouch, this is a default system allows the input of the touch screen can be any surface that users encounter every day.

OmniTouch allow any surface that is also used as a touch screen - Photos: Microsoft.

Hrvoje Benko, researcher of Natural Interaction at Microsoft Research, said: "We want to take advantage of large surface area of ​​the real world to provide touchscreen users."
This technology incorporates a pico projector based on the laser and camera sensors in particular, unlike the sensor in the Kinect camera for Xbox 360 by Microsoft. However, this sensor can be modified to work at short distances.
The camera was a prototype is provided by PrimeSense. Microsoft said that when the camera and projector are calibrated together, users can boot the system and start using it.
Chris Harrison, Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University, who joined the project, said: "Research is also facing some major challenges, including how to determine the system what looks like fingers to interact when it touches the surface of the sensor which does not contain ".
Above project is being announced at UIST 2011, Symposium on User Interface Software and computer technology are held on 16-19/10 in Santa Barbara, California.