New Video for ARForce

New Video for ARForce

Back when my blog had just a few visitors (only nine months ago), I wrote about ARForce. In a nutshell, ARForce is a concept input device that harness infrared to create something akin to a 3d multitouch marker.

Luckily, Tokyo University, which is behind ARForce, has just uploaded a new video demoing the use of ARForce is several scenarios, so this cool concept will gain larger exposure:



You can find more details, and another video of this device on my original post, or go directly to the project's homepage.

ARForce - another Infrared AR Concept

ARForce - another Infrared AR Concept

The following video tells it all (but I'll write a short blurb to justify my non-existent salary). ARForce is a sensor coming from the university of Tokyo, that can tell the position, magnitude and direction of the force applied to it by the user. It also has multi-touch capabilities.
ARForce is embedded with an array of dots, visible under infrared light and a camera. When pressed, the dots slightly realign, enabling the calculation of the pressure vector. Different initial arrangements of the dots can identify different input devices.



Though such a device is not strictly related to AR (apart from its name, and the demo presented above), it does show the viability of infrared markers, at least for indoors AR. Any thoughts on the subject?