Microsoft’s Illumishare allows people to share physical objects

The days have gone! Sharing of messages, photos and videos are all old technology. Microsoft demonstrated its research product called “Illumishare” that allows people to share physical objects. Illumishare is a virtual shared whiteboard that works on any surface. Anything that’s placed or sketched on the suface will be illuminated on the remote side and anything that placed by the remote user is illuminated back on your surface.  To make it clear, lets imagine you like play a Tic-Tac-Toe game with your friend living in California. Microsoft’s illumishare allows you to play the game without looking at a computer screen.  This means you can create a real-time gaming scenario that enables a remote user to play the game as if  he is playing with you in the same desk. Of course  not only games, you can even create a real-time learning scenario where the remote tutor can teach a child who is living thousands of miles away.

Sasa Junuzovic, a post doc researcher at Microsoft, says the combination of a camera and projector “enables people who are remote to do things naturally and seamlessly.”

Have a look at the video below where he explains how it done,