So, this is a tracking and projection system.
And what it's doing right now is to project
the wireframe off this car door onto the car
door.
And it's doing this in real time, so you can
see, while I'm moving the car door around,
it will actually track the car door and the
wireframe will continue to be correctly on
top of the car door.
I can also rotate it a bit and it will continue
to warp the projection so it looks correct
and still is place on top of the car door.
The goal of this line of research is to get
information out of the virtual space inside
the computer into the real physical space
that we inhabit.
Instead of using a monitor or a tablet in
order to interact with a robot, we are now
using the real world as a canvas in which
we display information.
Now, with this technology that we developed,
a robot is able to project his current state
and the intended future actions into the environment.
As a result of that, we can increase safety
and lead to an intuitive interaction between
humans and robots.
