From: Jay Dugger (til_e@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jul 03 2002 - 19:40:53 MDT
[snip]
>The graphical user interface is very doable today; I think the [snip]
>gloves would make it trivial to use with high resolution). I think the
>issue is rather: what would you want such an interface for? It seems
>ideal for doing some of the image enhancement stuff and quickly
>shuffling data, but when you have to shuffle data then you will likely
>need some automatic organizers to keep track of everything. Points for
>style, but not exactly what we need for programming or office work.
>
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Not everyone uses computers for coding or for office work. Here follow the
first few things I thought of with that UI in mind.
1) My job. I install and test visual systems on flight simulators. We
project three or more images onto a screen of similar size and shape to that
seen in Minority Report. A large fraction of that work comes from aligning
the images: making their geometry correct and making certain adjacent images
align. It would be very nice to "pinch" a control point and drag the raster
bitmap around with just a gesture. We currently use a combination of
distortion potentiometers, DACs, and altering the image map with a
correcting bitmap.
2) Conducting a virtual orchestra, playing a virtual harp, etc.
3) Composing large CGI by picking up and placing models inside a scene. I
feel certain this would prove easier, or at least enjoy a less steep
learning curve than, current ray-tracing tools. I'll defer to a more expert
opinion, here. :-)
4) Finger-painting.
5) Karaoke martial arts. Seriously, any physical activity that needs to
choreograph upper body movements.
6) The easy ones: teleoperation, video games, etc.
BTW, did you like the shot where the cop (Tom Cruise) and the precog
embrace? I mean the one where it shows only their heads facing in opposite
directions. This seemed a nice, subtle visual reference to the god Janus.
The back-alley surgeon didn't strike me nearly as funny as did the
manufacturing plant. Gee, in the next five decades all the modern safety
interlocks and electric eyes that stop machine tools when something fouls
their range of travel vanish. How strange...
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