Metaio’s Thermal Touch And The Future Of Augmented Reality User Interfaces | TechCrunch

Metaio’s Thermal Touch And The Future Of Augmented Reality User Interfaces | TechCrunch:



There are some obvious issues on how this would work on warmer than human finger or unevenly heated surfaces. Also it is unclear what are the maximum data rates could be achieved, as it takes some time for surface to cool after the finger removed. Nevertheless interesting idea. Perhaps it could be combined with some more traditional touch detection approaches.



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HOVER: Add the power of hand gestures + touch to your Arduino project.

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From interesting features it should be noted that it has detection range up to 5 inches. All gesture recognition is done with MGC3130. It is unclear if it is possible to get the raw data from the sensor to develop custom gesture recognition algorithms, besides the ones provided by MGC3130.

TECHNICAL SPECS

• Compatible with any Arduino
• Uses the MGC3130 as the gesture & touch controller
• Powered by 3.3V
• Breadboard friendly (6 pins)
• Uses I2C and two GPIOs to communicate with host (see pin mapping below)
• Compatible with 5V and 3.3V microcontrollers (on-board logic level shifting for I2C lines
• I2C slave @ address 0x42
• Gesture Detection Range: up to 5 inches. 
• Gestures Supported: up, down, left, right (more gestures like circular motion will be supported once library is finalized)
• Touch Features: up to 5 electrodes can be used for touch input. 
• Dimensions: 2.25 inches x 2.43 inches

VIDEO

 
Hover Gestures from emran on Vimeo.