Amazing Computer Interfaces!

OmniTouch!

OmniTouch almost like a smartphone is a wearable system where you can interact with almost any hard surface (like your hand or a piece of paper) and use it like a touchscreen on a phone. The OmniTouch tracks your fingers and determines when you have pressed on something or if you're hovering over a surface. The OmniTouch doesn't need to be calibrated to function before use. The OmniTouch is still being developed and is being tested by volunteers to tap and draw to test the accuracy of the system. For now, there are some applications that can be used for the OmniTouch such as, emailing, calling, playing music, text messaging, and drawing.

More Information can be found here: http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Research/OmniTouch

g-speak!

Just like the OmniTouch, the g-speak is mostly used indoors and is not portable as the OmniTouch. Since it is less portable it has a greater advantage of having a hologram type experience. Using specially made gloves that have sensors on it, the user can interact with multiple screens without having to physically touch it. It takes full advantage of the area around the user allowing the user to move her/his hands in any direction to control the program that he/she is using. Also allowing gestures to be used for multiple interactions. You can drag, zoom in and out, and make gestures to have a wide range of inputs that can't be done on a regular computer. Programs like a map of the whole world or the use for security benefits from this special technology. 

More Information can be found here: http://www.oblong.com/g-speak/

Leap Motion

Finally, Leap Motion. Unlike the last two interfaces, this is more accessible to the market for around $80. Leap Motion has been around for a while is now being implemented into VR, like the new Oculus Rift, and the HTC Vive from Steam. The Leap Motion is a combination of both the OmniTouch and the g-speak, using your hands as an input to interact with the program and the holographic feel by using a monitor to swipe, drag, zoom in and out, and pinch. You can't use your hands or a book, and you don't have as much as different inputs like the g-speak. Think of it like a consumer version offering a gimmicky experience. You can draw, play games, have more control on programs that uses more inputs than a regular mouse, flip, and spin things around.  The Leap Motion is the next step to the way we interact with things.

More Information can be found here: https://www.leapmotion.com/