Obscura Digital Demos "Minority Report"-Like Display 124
Barence and other readers sent along word of a demonstration by Obscura Digital of a new technology it's dubbed a multi-touch hologram — reminiscent of the display in Minority Report. The demonstration shows a man interacting with holographic images projected before him, moving them around and resizing them. It's only sort of like the Minority Report display, which used hand movements to control elements on a screen. Earlier, Obscura had demoed another take on the Spielbergian technology, a multi-touch wall.
Cool, but... (Score:5, Funny)
Somehow, doesn't seem as efficient as alt-tabbing.
Innovative (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but can we lay it down on say, a table? [microsoft.com]
This could double (Score:4, Funny)
A few technical steps away from "Minority Report" (Score:4, Funny)
The researchers did state that their tech would need to be scaled up before it could work with straight actors.
Re:Sounds great and all, but.. (Score:2, Funny)
Hmm....
Re:One step closer to my holographic dream (Score:3, Funny)
Someday, when holograms are commonplace, I will drive down the street, and instead of seeing my car, you will see a giant snake breathing fire on everything around me.
A snake? Pfft, give me my damn holographic shark that bites by-passers. You've got 7 years.
Re:photo collection app... (Score:3, Funny)
Boring. Hasn't anyone figured out a more interesting application of this "multi-touch" input form?
Multi-touch.. interesting... mmmh.. is it okay if it involves the Olsen twins? :-S
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Re:Cool, but... (Score:5, Funny)
alt-tabbing
My brain initially interpreted that as "air-tabbing" and I pictured legions of nerds engaged in some kind of fierce air-keyboarding competition.
Re:One step closer to my holographic dream (Score:5, Funny)
But not in our dreams. No sir.
Re:ok, I want one (Score:2, Funny)
Re:ok, I want one (Score:1, Funny)
Re:One step closer to my holographic dream (Score:2, Funny)
+1 Modpoints for explaining joke
Re:ok, I want one (Score:3, Funny)
Jim Fixx [wikipedia.org]
Dennis Leary:
Jogged fifteen miles a day. Did a jogging book. Did a jogging video. Dropped out of a heart attack when? When he was fucking jogging, that's when! What do you wanna bet it was two smokers who found the body the next morning and went, "Hey! That's Jim Fixx, isn't it? Wow, what a fucking tragedy."
Re:A few technical steps away from "Minority Repor (Score:3, Funny)