This floor's in step with you
Paul Marks · The New Scientist · 2013
The interactive floor in Patrick Baudisch's lab is featured. The mirror world is one of the applications Baudisch and his colleagues at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam in Germany, developed after building an 8-square-metre pressure-sensing floor that can recognize people by their weight, track their movements and display video for them to interact with. The idea is that the pressure-sensing technology could lead to a raft of ways to control objects in one's home, play games, or assist older or disabled people.