The MIT Media Lab has a new project underway called ‘Project Playtime’ which combines visualization, immersive environments, and haptic robotics into an interactive storybook world.  As technologies like Wii and Kinect bring traditionally ‘research’ technologies like vision tracking and motion tracking into the home, it seems that MIT might really be onto something.

These days, a lot of work at the lab is building on a larger trend: Instead of people adapting to computers by learning to type on a keyboard or use a game controller, computers are adapting to computers by learning to read natural movements, whether on an iPad touchscreen or with a Wii or a Kinect.

via MIT Media Lab builds game space of the future – Entertainment News, TechBytes, Media – Variety.

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