T(ether), an experimental collaborative App from the MIT Media Lab, combines augmented reality, gesture control, collaborative work spaces and iPads to create a tool that allows multiple participants to simultaneously interact with a virtual object. The creators call it a "tool for spatial expression which acts as a window affording users a perspective view of three-dimensional data through tracking of head position and orientation."
Roughly translated: Using an iPad and a special glove you
and a colleague can create and manipulate virtual objects shown on
the screens of your iPads.
Speaking to Fast Co.design, one
of the creators, David Lakatos said: "We tested it with a
bunch of people, and they feel a kinesthetic connection between what
they see on the screen and where their hand is," Lakatos
says. "On a touch screen alone you wouldn’t do much
better than sitting at your desk with a mouse. The gloves
give you the literally free-hand spatial positioning. We think this is super powerful."