From: G. Jounghyun Kim [gkim@postech.ac.kr] Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 12:56 AM To: Jerry Isdale Cc: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu Subject: Re: Novel 3d devices & techniques Jerry, A belated response ! I am catching up with the discussion here ... I do not know if this is novel enough or truly related to VR stuff, but we have designed, what we call, a "finger tapping" sensor. We use it to implement "air piano playing". The sensor is made of sensors that sense mechanical vibrations, and the sensor is just placed upon a table where the user would tap on. Several sensors can be cascaded to make it sense intensity of the tap, too. There is a picture of it at http://www.postech.ac.kr/~gkim/vsmm99/vsmm99.html Regards, Gerry Kim, POSTECH. Jerry Isdale wrote: > 3D ui pholks; > > I'm currently pulling together a couple surveys of 3d navigation and > gesture devices - one for work (DARPA Tactical Mobile Robot - Human Robot > Interaction) and one for my November VRNews column. > > I figure this forum would be a great place for people to talk a bit about > stuff they are working with or have seen used. Per usual, my VRNews links > will be posted to my site http://vr.isdale.com a few weeks after I submit > my article. I'll post notice here of its availablity. I'll also try and > post some of the text I write in an accessible place. > > Some of the more novel stuff: > Polaris.org/Mindtel's TNG a/d box and NeatTools data flow programmer > hacked gamer devices (joysticks, pads, etc) > muscle/brain activity sensors > one hand keyboards (twiddler, bat) > MIT's fabric keypads (smart fabric) > PDAs > see-thru tablets > > and of course the usual > gloves/bend sensors > 3d trackers > joysticks (haptic and non-haptic) > > Thanks in advance! > ============= > Jerry Isdale, Technology Review Editor, VR News > phone: 805 379 2667 1527 Wakefield Ave > fax: 805 496 8547 Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 > email: isdale@acm.org > http://www.vrnews.com > http://vr.isdale.com/techReview.html