OmniTouch: Every Surface is a Touch Surface

How would you feel if your entire house walls are touch screens? Every wall was your computer, your TV and even your mail box. Well, you want it or not, this is the technology coming to us. iPhone and iPad was just the beginning.

OmniTouch: Every Surface is a Touch Surface

How would you feel if your entire house walls are touch screens? Every wall was your computer, your TV and even your mail box. I remember visiting Microsoft campus in 2003 and visited this future house where every wall was a touch screen. Microsoft has been involved with touch technology for over a decade now and Windows 8 is its first official operating system that brings some of the touch technology to the end user.

OmniTouch turns any surface in the user's environment into a touch interface. OmniTouch: Wearable Multitouch Interaction Everywhere—co-authored by Chris Harrison, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University and a former Microsoft Research intern; Benko; and Andy Wilso, is a wearable system that enables graphical, interactive, multi-touch input on arbitrary, everyday surfaces.