Disney Research

​If these walls could talk. A new treatment that smartens up walls might not be about to give your bedroom a voice, but it could give it the ability to track your movements and your use of electronics, thanks to a special electrode-laden coating that turns them into interactive surfaces.

An intriguing photo projection system uses only black images and a prism to project full-color imagery. A Dartmouth College and Disney Research Zürich study could result in future systems that dynamically trade off color fidelity, efficiency, and resolution to create full-color projections.

A team from Disney Research Pittsburgh and the University of East Anglia has developed a system that could make the dubbing of foreign-language films easier, by automatically suggesting more English phrases that match the actors' lip movements.

Researchers at Disney Research, Pittsburgh have developed a system that lets users' fingertips feel a simulated bump through a flat tablet or smartphone screen, that corresponds to a bump in the displayed image.

Forget using tape recorders to play back spoken messages – what if you could simply hear them through a finger? A new system allows for just that. Using the human body as a sound transmitter, the technology lets you hear audio messages when someone touches your ear with their finger.

Scientists at Disney Research have created a program that allows a computer to draw portraits based on facial photos, in the style of specific human artists.