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# Are interactive projections the next in mobile applications?
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/are-interactive-projections-the-next-in-mobile/
- Published: 2011-11-18T17:42:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:29:42.000Z
- Description: Using a system of both visible and infrared light, a new device from researchers at the Disney Institute and Carnegie Mellon may give us yet another reason to endlessly toy around with our iPhones. SideBySide is comprised of a camera-less mobile device that breathes life into animated images that, w
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![](http://www.disneyresearch.com/research/projects/mobile-projectors/sidebyside-boxing.jpg)

Using a system of both visible and infrared light, a new device from researchers at the Disney Institute and Carnegie Mellon may give us yet another reason to endlessly toy around with our iPhones. SideBySide is comprised of a camera-less mobile device that breathes life into animated images that, when projected onto a wall, interact with each other. Unlike current applications of [augmented reality](http://bit.ly/sEgZHw?ref=killscreen.com), the projections exist externally and provide compelling potential for games, education, and other surely wholesome Disney activities.

> “Smartphones have made it possible for us to communicate, play games and retrieve information from the Web wherever we might be, but our interaction with the devices remains a largely solitary, single user experience,” said Karl D.D. Willis, a Ph.D. candidate in computational design at Carnegie Mellon and a lab associate at Disney Research. “Now that handheld projectors have become a reality, we finally have a technology that allows us to create a new way for people to interact in the real world.”

SideBySide has not yet been integrated into other devices, but a future of impromptu projected boxing on street corners is not too far off, we’re sure.

*\-Lyndsey Edelman*

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