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Home My Photo Blog (Moblog) Observations Java Hot Products Books/Knowledge Devices Operators Mobile Messaging My Courses My Profile My ideas/thoughts Techno Vision Blogroll Me! Join Paul's mail list	Wednesday, April 14, 2004   :: Peephole interface :: No, it's not a voyeur's gadget, but a technique for viewing large-area virtual spaces using a physically smaller display by moving the display over the virtual space. Think of moving a small picture frame over a large map or picture and that what you see in the frame is what the display would show. The concept is one that I had been developing some of my own ideas towards, although I discovered more prior art than I was expecting, mostly due to work already going on in the augmented and virtual reality arenas. My interest, not surprisingly, is in mobile applications. It initially struck me as a useful solution for viewing original-format web pages on handheld devices without having to go through any content adaptation processes. I think that this is still a potential solution to the problem. The challenge is really in how to achieve spatial awareness for the device so that the display software knows whereabouts the peephole is located relative to the underlying image. An optical technique makes sense and I have focussed my research on this approach. Interesting prior art can be found at Kay-Ping Yee’s site out at Berkley. 12:28:17 PM    comment []   © Copyright 2004 Paul Golding. Last update: 5/17/2004; 11:02:26 AM.	April 2004 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30   Mar   May Sign up to my email list - Send me email Visit my personal website to find out more about me. Consult my booklist on Amazon Blogroll: