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Posted 21 March 2007 - 01:22 PM

http://www.ted.com/t...;flashEnabled=1

http://multi-touchsc...l-jeff-han.html

This technology is insane. You may remember seeing something like this during the MINORITY REPORT. Well guess what.. It works!!
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 02:11 PM

Thats... Thats awesome ^_^
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 02:17 PM

beats vista aero o_0

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Posted 21 March 2007 - 02:58 PM

While the technology is interesting, it isn't practical. Doing that kind of thing all day would be tiring, to say the least. I'd expect this kind of interface to be more or less ignored in favor of developing direct neural interfaces.

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Posted 21 March 2007 - 03:02 PM

Perfect, now to get our hands on it literally ^_^ Can't wait to play RTS games on it.
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 03:11 PM

Interesting it looks cool he says cheap but really how Cheap is Cheap?
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 03:12 PM

Imagine how kickass it would be with strategy games....

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Posted 21 March 2007 - 03:25 PM

That's really cool.
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 04:02 PM

Who needs holograms when you have this? This is amazing... I can't wait to get one.
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Posted 22 March 2007 - 06:50 AM

Northrop Gruman makes a touch table that has similar capabilities to this. It's pretty slick.

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Posted 22 March 2007 - 07:11 AM

Wow! Playing EaW/FoC/UaW with this will be the best experience one will ever have!
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Posted 22 March 2007 - 10:33 AM

Oh...I think this is exactly the kind of thing that will really catch on! That sort of interface would really revolutionize portable devices (laptops, PDA's, etc.) as well as have some very interesting PC applications as well. I can even see that technology being used on console gaming systems and more. Very cool stuff.

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Posted 22 March 2007 - 10:51 AM

Looks definately impressive and cool, but I guess it won't be that cheap, and it's still in a test phase so we'll prolly have to wait several more years
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Posted 22 March 2007 - 11:25 AM

i like it... it would have innumerable applications... i bet the big companies are kicking themselves for not thinking of this :p

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Posted 22 March 2007 - 01:24 PM

You'd be surprised what people will latch onto. Some of the dumbest stuff gets tons of uses simply because some jerk in Hollywood has one.
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Posted 22 March 2007 - 01:37 PM

The Gaming Industry and Graphics industries in general will probably latch onto this technology in my mind as it will allow you to model and map things in a completely different way.
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Posted 22 March 2007 - 03:08 PM

Touch screen stuff is neat, and can be built reasonably fast. For an exhibition last summer a couple people put together a pair of touch screens based on infrared in a month or so. It worked pretty well for a prototype, but it wasn't perfect (it worked quite well with me for some reason). I don't think it will cause a huge revolution in content creation, as most of this has been done with tablets and such already. It really requires that the applications be designed for this sort of interaction as well, and the current content tools definitely aren't.
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