SIGGRAPH will showcase 22 emerging technologies ranging from robotics, input interfaces and interactive techniques at its 2010 conference.
The selections were picked by a jury of experts and SIGGRAPH organizers from more than 107 submissions from around the world. All the selected technologies will be on display for interaction with attendees at the show, which will be held July 25-29 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Highlights of the emerging technologies are:
‘ Acroban the Humanoid: Acroban is the first humanoid robot able to demonstrate playful, compliant, and intuitive physical interaction with children while moving and walking dynamically. Also, it is able to keep its equilibrium when moving even if unpredicted physical interactions are initiated by humans.
‘ Gesture World Technology: This technology allows people to control devices such as computers, household appliances, and robots by means of everyday gestures without using sensors or controllers, which employs the high-speed and high-accuracy computer vision technology capable of estimating the hand and arm poses captured by a compact high-speed camera.
‘ 360-degree Autostereoscopic Display: Acompact, cylindrical display, which can show full color, high quality, volumetric, 3D images, videos, and interactive animation viewable without glasses from any angle (360 degrees).
A complete listing of all the Emerging Technologies presented this year’s program is available in: http://www.siggraph.org/s2010/for_attendees/emerging_technologies.
