http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en-us/technology/gestic/home.html

I saw "live" an application demo and it is impressive: you have a pad (connected to the PC via USB) and you move your finger above it, flying it "in the air": the pointer on the 3D scene follows your fingers in all the X-Y-Z directions.
The pad generates an electric field and the finger position creates variation that are detected by the application.
The result is a real 3D pointer controller!

This, together with the possibility to have also a vertical grid, which is used to project the pointer position, could be very useful to control 3D movement without forcing to continuously rotate the scene.

Maybe RL wish to contact Microchip ?

Cheers

Roberto

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