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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

New 3D Cursor Technology

New Cursor Technology Enables 3D Interaction

The Engineer | August 10, 2015


The technology, unveiled at the SIGGRAPH 2015 Conference in Los Angeles, allows users to control the cursor via a tablet, sweeping it through objects to select them, and using gestures such as pinching and swiping to manipulate the objects. 
Why use a 2-D cursor in a 3-D world? Computer cursors are going 3-D!
Source: http://phys.org/news/2015-08-cursors-d.html Credit: Hybridlab, Université de Montréal
“Our new technology challenges the notion of what a cursor is and does,” said lead researcher Professor Tomás Dorta, from the University of Montreal’s School of Design.

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