Project by: Yaniv Steiner & Ofer Luft.

SmartRetina is a lightfast gesture-tracking platform written in Macromedia Flash 8, utilizing its flash.geom. package, flash.display package, Video class, Camera
class and their motion-tracking capabilities.

SmartRetina is used to develop Retina Based Interfaces – Interfaces which:

1. Purely use visual interaction and can fully function without using text or audio.
2. Strictly serve as translators between human gestures and machine functions.
3. Can be self-explanatory at their introductory level, since representations of the supported gestures can serve as the actual visual interface (a reflexive interface)
4. Can act as self-organizing systems (see Mossalibra for example).

Retina Based Interfaces therefore escape both the language barrier and the age barrier.

Since SmartRetina serves only as a translator between human gestures and machine functions, these machine functions can include usage of audio, text and actuators thus expanding SmartRetina�s capabilities beyond the visual.

The above video demonstrate how SmartRetina can be used as a navigating tool combined with Google earth. SmartRetina (working on the black laptop on the right) captures the user�s hand gestures, understanding them as computer actions such as up, down, left, right, Zoom In etc, then sends the commands to a computer running Google earth (the desktop on the left).

The following video presents a fast navigation from Greece to Rome.

Public Implementation - Mossalibra