Canonical Demos Physical Awareness Prototype in Ubuntu

[Michael Lauzon]

Interesting....

"Prototype uses webcam to sense user activity and trigger appropriate
reactions.

"Over at Canonical's design blog, Christian Giordano introduced an
early prototype for a user-aware framework that tracks a user's
movements and responds by triggering different actions.

"The blog details a few examples such as having the computer initiate
full-screen mode when a user leans back in their chair. Canonical also
toyed with a parallax technique that shifted the desktop's reference
point depending on where the user was positioned in relationship to
it.

"It's one thing to try and describe these processes and another to
demonstrate them. Check out the video: http://vimeo.com/14959854

"No word on when or even if this prototype will make it to a future
version of Ubuntu, but with this, along with the uTouch framework
Canonical released a few weeks ago, the company seems to be extremely
interested in new ways to interact with a PC."


http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Canonical-Demos-Physical-Awareness-Prototype-in-Ubuntu

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