Multi-touch from Microsoft

The research team from Microsoft has come up with a really interesting way of communicating with your computer, using only a nice piece of software and a regular webcam. This application can sense what the background and the foreground of the video is allowing the use of gestures for a completely natural user interface.

This is really cool because if this software will be developed even further and released to the public you won’t have to buy a new computer or a new screen with touch or multi touch built in it, you’ll only need a webcam that most of us already have on our computers.

This is one of the so many products Microsoft is working on right now for the way we’ll see UIs in the near future, the only thing i can think of right now is what kind of products hide behind the research team from Apple, and how long do we have to wait to see something like this for personal use.

Here is the video: