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I remember hearing about a Xerox research lab that had a whole room where the walls were all whiteboard. They had a celling mounted camera that would scan the
by Nekojoe 17y ago
I remember hearing about a Xerox research lab that had a whole room where the walls were all whiteboard.
They had a celling mounted camera that would scan the walls.
They also had a markup language that the camera OCR software would pick up. So for example if they drew a P in a square, it would print out that wall to the printer.
If they wrote an e-mail address in a square it would e-mail a photo of the whiteboard to that e-mail address.
This was 7 or 8 years ago. I wonder if they still use this system.
- troels 17y agoLink?
- Nekojoe 17y agoI heard about it 7 or 8 years ago from people who had been to Xerox Parc and Cambridge (UK) based Xerox Research Centres. I can find this research paper online, although it appears to be dated 1995. It's not exactly what I was told about, but it seems to be an earlier version. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gjm6FpMUTXgC&pg=PA509&lpg=PA509&dq=Xerox+Whiteboard&source=bl&ots=Rh6AtCrPtN&sig=T7-HqMSPL1mPq1av4D1R2G5xIVk&hl=en&ei=y_x_SqqbKcirjAfa7czwAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gjm6FpMUTXgC&pg=PA509...