Students at the University of Queensland have developed an application for interior design using a projector, Microsoft Kinect, Apple iPad and iPhone, and an infrared glove. The application allows the user to view how furniture they are thinking of purchasing will fit in with their existing room.
Either view the furniture’s 2D footprint to decide if it is too large or small for the space, or switch the projector to show Augmented Reality tags to allow for 3D viewing of the furniture via an iPad’s video camera. Don’t like how things look in the current layout? No heavy lifting required, with just a swipe with the infrared glove, you can move furniture around to see different arrangements in a matter of seconds. You can choose from a whole library of preloaded furniture options quickly using the iPhone, no information is currently available about adding your own models.
Although it is not stated, I am sure that if you printed out the AR tag, you could use that alone with an iPad to view a specific piece of furniture in an existing room. Add it to the ever growing list of Kinect hacks!
Video Courtesy of Ankith Konda
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