Comments on: Move Over, Minority Report

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By: FireFly

FireFly — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:29:14 +0000

I believe this technology was demonstrated — albeit on a much smaller scale — at this year’s MacWorld by Steve Jobs operating the soon-to-be released ApplePhone/iPhone cell/PDA/iPOD unit. It looks even better when ported to the big screen, although my rotator cuff will be getting quite a workout!

By: Ferocious_Imbecile

Ferocious_Imbecile — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:00:12 +0000

Touching a screen???Fingerprints on my screen???
AUUGGGHHH!

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:07:08 +0000

Ah, Dennis, city planners who think? Now you’re talking about science fiction. ;)

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:09:12 +0000

The military application is great, but apply a bit of SimCity software and you have the ultimate state/city planning device.
If they wee to use somting like this I would not be stopped in traffic in the fast lane because they forgot to take into consideration the size of the roads when building the 30 aprtment complexed they just put up in one square mile.

By: Dr. Curiosity

Dr. Curiosity — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:22:33 +0000

It’s times like this that I wish I had his research budget :-) I developed a somewhat more primitive version of this interface for my CompSci Masters thesis as a solo project. Given a decent budget for materials and electrical engineering expertise, this kind of setup would be remarkably easy to make for someone with a background in computer vision software.
Of course, the real “magic” as far as the user is concerned is in making it a usable, natural interface — if you can do that, the method by which it’s being enabled should just melt into the background.

By: sglover

sglover — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:21:46 +0000

Sweet! I’ve long thought an environment like that would be terrific for really ambitious software development.

By: reefdiver

reefdiver — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:42:12 +0000

“There is no reason in this day and age that we should be conforming to a physical device,” he said. “These interfaces should start conforming to us.“
Indeed, but for much of what we do the keyboard is still much better — even if we should all be using the Dvorak keyboard instead of the QUERTY keyboard that was actually designed to slow typing down to avoid mechanical jamming. Touch screens have been around for a very long time. The use of them SHOULD evolve. However, various other forms of control actually provide for better fine-motor muscle control. Arms waving in space just aren’t that easy to precisely control, whereas arms resting on an armrest with only the wrist controlling a joystick or mouse is extremely precise. The application described may in fact may be better served by a Wii game console controller than a touch screen. Its much more innovative. Nonetheless, I slightly disagree with the statement listed above. I believe the human interface should be suited to the task.