13 October 2012

Personalised Digital Tabletop System

A tabletop system called PIVOT where users can come together and view shared content was unveiled a few days ago. A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, have developed the system aimed at supporting mixed-focus collaborative tasks. Through two view zones, PiVOT provides personalised views to individual users while presenting an unaffected and unobstructed shared view to all users.


The system supports multiple personalised views which can be present at the same spatial location and yet be only visible to the users it belongs to, a function that is not available in any other tabletop system. PiVOT also allows the creation of personal views that can be either 2D or auto-stereoscopic 3D images. PiVOT is a result of the exploration of different designs to address the opposing challenges of shared and personalised views. 

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