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Multi-Point Touchscreen Technology

CameronStewart

11:13 / 10.02.06

I watched this video demonstrating new touchscreen technology and my eyes bugged out of my head. How long before this becomes standard? Not soon enough...

invisible_al

11:26 / 10.02.06

Damm was just about to post about that, it is incredibly cool and makes all those displays from science fiction possible.
Here's another location for the video as their server is being hammered.
It's a step beyond the Entertable that Phillips have been researching. That was a configurable e-table for board-games and the like, I grin just thinking of the cool stuff that will be possible with displays like this.

Dead Megatron

12:39 / 10.02.06

ah, this planet is turning into a scifi movie. But, does the screen have to come with that annoying music?

netbanshee

19:33 / 12.02.06

This reminds me a bit of the Sony Tech Labs experiments with touch recognizable tiles that interact with each other when positioned near each other.

I like the thinking that's going on between these two different types of technology. On the multi-point one, I like the "spreading" technique in the one part that zooms you in and out of documents or workspaces. Seems to be a well-executed approach instead of some that are more the making of pretty colors and organic shapes.

What I eat up with the tile-based system is the modular-based functionality... tying together different interactions and elements by arranging them in a multitude of ways.

robertk

14:19 / 31.03.06

On a slightly (if at all) related note: Can anyone give me the address of this one video floating around the net recently with featuring a real-time motion capturing technology? It's the one with the guy standing in front of an audience and demonstrating how he interacts with virtual stuff on-screen (for example he builds a virtual house out of virtual bricks and similar stuff, a helicopter's in there too).

Does anybody have the address? Thanks in advance!

BGK

03:00 / 10.04.06

I'm blown away and really impressed with this video. It immediately reminded me of some of the special effects in the movie Minority Report. I can definitely see how this is going to enhance the user experience almost to the point where these imputations seem organic. Mac OS X seems to be the closest thing we have now, at least on a wide/home user scale.

nyarlathotep's shoe horn

05:40 / 10.04.06

the desktop becomes an infinite 3-D space in which to arrange one's gak.

I'm excited to see what metaphors beyond the "office" we can devise for interacting with the digitised side of the screen. Hopefully, it will engendre a modicum of creativity.

personally, I hope to see an all-underpants interface.

--not jack

BGK

02:46 / 11.04.06

Yes, the lava-lamp type "game" is something I could probably be lost in for hours.

invisible_al

09:34 / 22.06.06

Randomly has anyone seen this new 3D desktop demo? Uses the metaphor of documents on a desktop in the way you can scatter piles of documents around on top of each other, leaf through documents and the like. Kinda cool, no idea if it's practical or would help you work though

lekvar

17:53 / 22.06.06

Yeah, I love the idea of drawing my desktop documents into little piles! Sadly I can't see this actually improving my workflow at all, and it honestly looks a little unweildly. 10 out of 10 for clever, though, with several thousand bonus points for eye-candy.

slinky

11:19 / 22.07.06

Technology and fun should always go together. yessss.

Dead Megatron

14:16 / 23.07.06

Oh yeah, that's exactly what I need: a desktop that reproduces the mess that is my real life working place. Because we want to add reality's shortcomings to the virtual shortcomings of a computer.

What I really want is a computer that remembers where a file is stored and retrieves it to you as requested:

"Gee, Compy, where did I leave my hentai pics file folder?"

"Here it is, Megsy..."

enrieb

18:26 / 17.08.06

I just found this video showing new developments in Touchscreen Technology.

Microsoft's Touchlight 3D Technology

It makes use of two cameras and a projector to capture and project images onto what looks like a glass screen. Once you capture an image or document you can manipulate it in similar ways to the Multi-Point Touchscreen shown at start of this thread.

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