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Transforming walls into sensors and interactive surfaces with a paint job

Smart Walls React to Human Touch, Sense Activity in Room Walls are what they are — big, dull dividers. With a few applications of conductive paint and some electronics, however, walls can become smart infrastructure that sense human touch, and detect things like gestures and when appliances are used. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney

Transforming walls into sensors and interactive surfaces with a paint job

Disney Research takes another big step towards a functioning holodeck

Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) create exciting opportunities to engage users in immersive experiences, resulting in natural human-computer interaction. Many MR interactions are generated around a First-person Point of View (POV). In these cases, the user directs to the environment, which is digitally displayed either through a head-mounted display or a handheld computing device. One drawback of such conventional

Disney Research takes another big step towards a functioning holodeck

Ultra-wideband backscatter communication for the Internet of Things

Disney Research demonstrates ultra-wideband backscatter communication Internet of things (IoT) systems usually link networks of sensors via radio, but radios demand battery power thus limiting usability. Disney Research has determined that one solution may be to get rid of the radios all together and communicate via the ambient radio waves from TV, radio and cell

Ultra-wideband backscatter communication for the Internet of Things

LED Bulbs Can Both Light a Room, Provide a Communications Link

Researchers at Disney Research and ETH Zurich have demonstrated that consumer-grade light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs can, with some modifications, do double duty — both illuminating a room and providing a communications link for devices in that room. This visible light communication (VLC) system would be suitable for connecting the many devices, such as appliances, wearable

LED Bulbs Can Both Light a Room, Provide a Communications Link

Get ready for the iBall – Disney breakthrough could lead to round phones and realistic robot eyes

Forget flexible screens, Disney‘s research lab has invented a new 3D printing process that can make tiny, round screens that could lead to a new generation of spherical gadgets. The firm has even worked out how to make the text readable on a round screen, meaning even apps could be usable – and raising the

Get ready for the iBall – Disney breakthrough could lead to round phones and realistic robot eyes

Carnegie Mellon-Disney Motion Tracking Technology Is Extremely Precise and Inexpensive With Minimal Lag

Technology Could Transform Games, But Applications Don’t Stop There Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research Pittsburgh have devised a motion tracking technology that could eliminate much of the annoying lag that occurs in existing video game systems that use motion tracking, while also being extremely precise and highly affordable. Called Lumitrack, the technology

Carnegie Mellon-Disney Motion Tracking Technology Is Extremely Precise and Inexpensive With Minimal Lag

Ambient Energy Could Replace Batteries

Stray heat, electromagnetic fields or even mechanical sources can provide power for portable electronics and other devices Disposable and rechargeable batteries that power tens of millions of portable electronics could become obsolete over the coming decades as new technologies come to market that can convert ambient energy into usable electric power, new research shows. The

Ambient Energy Could Replace Batteries

Disney’s Aireal delivers precise tactile feedback out of thin air

With systems like the Kinect and Leap Motion, controlling a gadget with just the wave of a hand is starting to become much more commonplace. The one drawback to those gesture-based devices however is that you never actually touch anything. No matter what you see on the screen, you’re still very aware that you’re just moving your hands

Disney’s Aireal delivers precise tactile feedback out of thin air

Cheap, color, holographic video

A practical new approach to holographic video could also enable 2-D displays with higher resolution and lower power consumption. Today in the journal Nature, researchers at MIT’s Media Lab report a new approach to generating holograms that could lead to color holographic-video displays that are much cheaper to manufacture than today’s experimental, monochromatic displays. The same technique

Cheap, color, holographic video

Robots Learn Proper Handoff, Follow Digitized Human Examples

A humanoid robot can receive an object handed to it by a person with something approaching natural, human-like motion A humanoid robot can receive an object handed to it by a person with something approaching natural, human-like motion thanks to a new method developed by scientists at Disney Research, Pittsburgh in a project partially funded

Robots Learn Proper Handoff, Follow Digitized Human Examples

Disney Research robot can juggle, play catch

The developers were also able to speed up the throw/catch cycle to give the robot the ability to juggle three balls with a human partner. With the aim of providing some physical interaction between entertainment robots and guests at its theme parks, while still maintaining a safe distance between the two, Disney Research has created

Disney Research robot can juggle, play catch

Disney develops “face cloning” technique for animatronics

The “uncanny valley” is one of the frustrating paradoxes of robotics. Every year, roboticists make humanoid robots that more accurately imitate human beings, but it turns out that the better the imitation, the creepier the end result. It’s that strange, hair-raising sensation one gets when visiting the Hall of Presidents at Disneyland. True, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln look very

Disney develops “face cloning” technique for animatronics

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