8.20.2006
Can you say Minority Report?
It’s been a while since I’ve seen what I consider to be a true technological…holly shit! What Jeff Han of NYU demonstrates at the TED conference in the following post is unbelievable. As Jeff mentions in his presentation, this is not necessarily new technology, but it is incredibly affordable, scalable and approachable. I want to get my hands on this asap!
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at 11:47 PM,
Anonymous said...
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Well, yes, this is a bit old.
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at 12:31 AM,
Scott said...
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I posted about this a while back. There are better clips off the main research site.
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at 3:20 AM,
Anonymous said...
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there's actually a cooler one direct from Redmond....A guy walk up to a what looked like a piece of glass, placed a magazine on it and the image was transferred to the glass (screen) and then flipped and manipulated similar to how Jeff Han showed
Post a Comment ||backSure, nobody is obliged to know everything that happens around the world. It's just that by judging from the comments and linkbacks from that site, it's funny how sites can catch on nice links even if they ignored it completely (or never got to see it) the first time it appeared.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sz8ExZndc
The demos are what really make this interface cool. I guess usage on a desktop computer will still need only one pointer, but there's a bunch of public space terminals that would greatly benefit from that.
Also, it's funny that a lot of people seem to mention Minority Report when they see it. There's probably a few concepts that carry, but MR is much more about gestures than about multi-pointer interaction. And the technology actually exists:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7271
One cool thing to notice about MR is that prior to making the movie, the guys actually did a lot of research on how technology was evolving. Everything they built or used was based on something that existed at least in concept; actual design companies were consulted to create all the stuff they used. It's not just your generic, colorful, Hollywood computer prop.
http://www.scottjanousek.com/blog/2006/02/19/multi-touch-interaction-experiments/