Mind-Blowing Interfaces On Display At SIGGRAPH 2009 173
An anonymous reader writes "Tech Review has a roundup of some cool, experimental new interfaces being shown at SIGGRAPH 2009, underway in New Orleans this week. They include an amazing 'touchable holograph' display, developed by a team in Japan, which uses an ultrasound device to simulate the sense of touch as the user grasps objects shown in 3D. The other ideas on display are Augmented Reality for Ordinary Toys, Hyper-Realistic Virtual Reality, 3D Teleconferencing and Scratchable Input Devices. If this is the future of computers, sign me up."
The conference has also seen the release of OpenGL 3.2 by the Khronos Group.
ultrasound... (Score:5, Funny)
So, you can actually feel something when you touch the hologram?
3-D PORN.
Touchable Hologram? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I'm a PC.... (Score:4, Funny)
Who cares?
By the way, Macs are Personal Computers too.
mind-blowing (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I'm a PC.... (Score:5, Funny)
You take that back!
3-D STD . . . (Score:3, Funny)
So, you can actually feel something when you touch the hologram?
3-D PORN.
. . . just hope that you can't catch something when you touch . . .
Re:ultrasound... (Score:5, Funny)
So, you can actually feel something when you touch the hologram?
3-D PORN.
Ahem, they said mind blowing ...
Holodeck (Score:5, Funny)
I see where this is going (Score:3, Funny)
First, they'll set this up on PCs at home. Then it'll be laptops. Then, netbooks.
The next thing you know, you're gonna have to dodge a frigging mindfield of idiots walking around having orgasms (cmon, you KNOW this thing is gonna be used for porn) because wearable computers takes off.
Re:I see where this is going (Score:4, Funny)
'The next thing you know, you're gonna have to dodge a frigging mindfield of idiots walking around having orgasms (cmon, you KNOW this thing is gonna be used for porn) because wearable computers takes off.'
You say that like it's a bad thing!
Re:ultrasound... (Score:4, Funny)
As soon as I get my hands on an API.
Re:Touchable Hologram? (Score:5, Funny)
puncture repair kit on standby...
Re:Augmented reality (Score:4, Funny)
Walking down the street -
"Single"
"Married"
"Single with Facebook Profile"
"Malda's GF - don't touch"
Re:ultrasound... (Score:2, Funny)
Please state the nature of the medical emergency.
Re:ultrasound... (Score:5, Funny)
As soon as I get my hands on an API.
And some Japanese teenage girls... ...You know what? Forget the API.
Re:Augmented reality (Score:5, Funny)
Walking down the street -
"Single"
"Married"
"Single with Facebook Profile"
"Malda's GF - don't touch"
And don't forget...
"Jailbait"
"Psycho"
"Trap"
Finally a Man's interface (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The scratch interface could be a problem (Score:0, Funny)
Or you get fired and they spend 20 or 30 minutes pushing out new images and another 10 to restore backups of documents...
You must be a fucking blast at parties.
Re:TV screens still have a long way to go (Score:3, Funny)
This LED-backlit LCD [amazon.com] supposed has a five-million-to-one contrast ratio.
Mod me (-1, Obvious), but marketing people and display scientists use different numerical systems. The latter use some carefully calibrated scales and test gear, the former uses blatant lies.
That Samsung may represent the best of LCD, but I'll bet $5 that it's not really 5x10^6 shades on the scale.
Re:I see where this is going (Score:1, Funny)
The new Zune - Squirting just got easier!