AIR Option 1: Technology Translation Gesture-based free form shape modeling

该PFI：AIR技术翻译项目专注于翻译基于手势的3D建模，以填补从设计到个人制造技术的重大空白。 翻译的基于手势的3D建模具有以下独特功能：免提，直观和即时交互，在支持迭代早期设计思维方面提供透明度，以及与该市场领域领先的基于Windows图标菜单指针（WIMP）的3D建模工具相比，以自然的方式进行基于手的视觉表达。 该项目通过开发基于自然用户界面的手势识别和形状交互技术来实现这一目标，从而使用深度传感相机为自由形式的形状建模3D合成环境提供概念原型。 该合作伙伴关系使ZeroUI能够在基于手势的3D建模、使用原型的用户测试以及定义未来现实场景的其他关键方面提供指导，因为它们涉及到将基于手势的3D建模沿着一条可能导致竞争性商业现实的道路进行转化的潜力。 潜在的经济影响预计将在未来3到5年内扰乱和利用全球2000亿美元的3D技术和市场应用，这将有助于美国在这个新兴的基于手势的技术领域的竞争力，并有助于我们国家的创意设计能力。 长期的社会影响将是改变每个人构思3D形状并创建它们的方式，从而实现个人制造业。

This PFI: AIR Technology Translation project focuses on translating gesture-based 3D modeling to fill a major design to personal manufacturing technology gap. The translated gesture-based 3D modeling has the following unique features: hands-free, intuitive, and on-the-fly interaction that provides transparency in supporting iterative early design thinking, and hands-based visual expression in a natural fashion when compared to the leading competing windows-icons-menus-pointers (WIMP) based 3D modeling tools in this market space. The project accomplishes this goal by developing a natural-user-interface based gesture recognition and shape interaction technology resulting in a proof of concept prototype for a free-form shape modeling 3D synthetic environment using a depth sensing camera. The partnership engages ZeroUI to provide guidance in the gesture based 3D modeling, user testing with prototypes, and other critical aspects defining future realistic scenarios as they pertain to the potential to translate the gesture-based 3D modeling along a path that may result in a competitive commercial reality. The potential economic impact is expected to disrupt and tap into a global $200 Billion 3D technology and market applications in the next 3 to 5 years which will contribute to the U.S. competitiveness in this newly emerging gesture-based technology space and contribute to our nations creative design capacity. The societal impact, long term, will be to transform how everyone conceives 3D shapes and creates them thereby enabling personal manufacturing industry.