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simulatorman said:
Thanks for the info.
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Thanks for the trolling.

I remember seeing the touch screen tech that is now so widespread in the Iphone and similar years ago and thinking it would be ages before we saw that in a marketable form, but i was wrong. I wonder how fast it will be before this sort of stuff becomes readily availible in useful aps.
 
Makunouchi said:
Thanks for the trolling.

I remember seeing the touch screen tech that is now so widespread in the Iphone and similar years ago and thinking it would be ages before we saw that in a marketable form, but i was wrong. I wonder how fast it will be before this sort of stuff becomes readily availible in useful aps.
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The multi-touch stuff...yup, it was first demo'd by the Chinese guy who made it, actually using NASA's world wind software...early 2006 iirc. 'tis neat stuff :)
 
Makunouchi said:
I wonder how fast it will be before this sort of stuff becomes readily availible in useful aps.
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I can't see a huge use for it at the moment in home use, although I probably will be proved wrong. Once somethings invented people generally find new and exciting ways to use it.

However for industry, I can see huge potential.
 
AcidHell2 said:
I can't see a huge use for it at the moment in home use, although I probably will be proved wrong.
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Imagine your watching tv on the sofa at home, you hear something interesting in some program and you want to wiki it. How cool would it be if without getting off the sofa you were able to browse through the web with a gesture of your hand. I think that would be pretty usefull. Or just browsing from your bed on a wall screen, and i can think of multiple aps for disabled people or people with reduced motor skills, giving them access to the web if they cant hold a mouse.
 
but are you going to sit round the house wearing gloves.. Now if tehy can miniaturise the sensors and implant them in the hands.. Oh joy. Although to get the most out of a system like this, you need a tv/screen as big as your wall.
 
But screens are getting bigger and cheaper all the time, I can see this working well for computing in home and business. I would love it even on a small screen!
 
Looks very cool, but in practise I would rather have my computer doing something useful, rather than using up the majority of it computing power to render that. Plus, you could probably do everything they did faster with a mouse anyway.
 
Does look fantastic!

One thing though...internet, porn and gloves dont mix - imagine the stains...

(and dont lie, you wouldnt use it for anything else! :p)
 
Although the video they made is fun, you can see it's also faked in places, especially the video editing part.

It's all done with infra-red camera's and gloves with reflective tips (you can see the fingertips shimmer in the video. Similar to the way the wii-mote works, infact this has been done with the wii-mote, there are open source projects for this around.

It does have big limitations so far, if you clench your fist, or turn you hands in a way that hides the reflective sensors it fails.

Well it's all good fun, but I'm yet to see a practical application for it. I guess that's just down to a good software application.
 
AcidHell2 said:
but are you going to sit round the house wearing gloves..
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Michael Jackson does, it is perfectly normal ;)

but I'm just not funky enough to get all that hand jiving correct,
I'd end up buying ten i7's for no reason :rolleyes:

I've seen a 3d search engine, that would be a great interface for it
 
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