Microsoft shows OmniTouch: its vision for the future of touch interfaces

Now, here’s what we want to see more from Microsoft - innovation. Two teams at Microsoft Research have been working on two very exciting projects and presented their findings at UI symposium UIST 2012. The first project, OmniTouch, is the most eye-catching with its futuristic idea - turn every surface into a touch-enabled space.

How did they do it? How about plant a smaller Kinect-like device on your shoulder which allows you to interact with all surfaces using multitouch, tapping, dragging and even pinch to zoom. Sounds almost incredible, and the researchers admit that the first three weeks of developing the project were the hardest.

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