I wasn’t sure if any of this was real and that example looked extremely fake to me because I had a hard time believing the device being able to read text from that distance.
(I think I overestimated how much of an angled shot it was the first time I saw it, on top of how easy or hard turning your finger into “actually capture this text”… but you’re totally right that in principle a camera at a non agressive angle can capture that text)
(I like this overall concept a lot! Cooking is the right example, voice interfacing’s 96% use case is basically “my hands are dirty but I must use computing”)
At the very least it's going to have a range limit on that feature.
And there's a projector in there too.
In something smaller than a smart phone.
It's a great concept, but not a very workable one. Kitchens get steamy, tables can be huge, and management will want to use the cameras for user surveillance.
The actual webcam and projector and Mac are not shown.
If you look at the map example, the shadows from the hands go almost straight down. The projector is not in the lightbulb, it is above the table out of frame. Probably the webcam is up there too.
Which of course greatly diminishes the "cool" factor.
Seems simple, but it really brought it up. Many folks would've stopped after getting the projector working. I should've known, given my experience with projectors, and it fooled me too! :)
"A bad design with good presentation is doomed eventually. A good design with bad presentation is doomed immediately."
Inspiring design and presentation. Thanks.