[News - Via metaversed] Xtreme reality's webcam-based human machine interface

Hi,

Just wanted to post this news, which shows advances in the motion
tracking field.

A question popped up in my mind : in your opinion, when these motion
tracking advances will go widely, will it be at system-level (thus
simulating key/button presses and (multi)pointer displacement) or
directly integrated into applications (via API, needing to modify the
software) ? A hybrid approach (system-level input emulation +
application-specific mapping profiling) could be interesting too...

http://metaversed.com/30-jul-2007/xtr-3d-human-machine-interface

There seems to be a convergence between video-based multi-touch
interfaces (MS Surface, the MPX project...) and motion tracking
applications, what do you think ?

There also seems to be a progressive deprecation of physical
touchscreens as well (nobody seems to have found a truely scalable and
cheap fabrication technology).

Regards, any comments appreciated

Florent