[olug] FW: The next generation computer interface

[Charles Bird]

I missed the begining of this topic, so perhaps my statment will throw
things off a bit, but what the heck.

I wanna see a huge touch screen laid out like an airhocky table ... and
make ultimate Pong...and on sat nights have a cosmic background AKA
!Cosmic Pong!

Or maybe the game battleship.

Nothing fancy for me. :)




> On 10/18/06, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Couple weeks late.
>>
>> Expensive screen.
>>
>> Doing funky things with a touch screen is nothing new (i've done a
>> "scratch
>> and sniff" porn demonstration with one), having a nice touch screen
>> device
>> that can handle multiple contacts is where the fun starts.
>>
>> So... basically ... expensive screen + some interesting UI toys is what
>> I
>> see.
>>
>> Make it workable for every day applications (or a window manager to mix
>> with
>> it) and I'll show alot more interest :).  Although, typing on a verticle
>> screen (or reading from a horizontalish one) would kinda suck.  Maybe
>> mix
>> it
>> with dragon naturally speaking .... which, according to
>> arstechnica.comhas
>> come a long way and is quite usable.  Also, having to move your arms
>> around
>> alot to get the movements necessary would be.... a tad annoying.
>>
>> Also, one last note -- touch stuff generally requires a HUGE amount of
>> screen realestate due to it's fairly inaccurate nature (sausage
>> fingers!).
>> For this kinda stuff to become really useful, we'll need big
>> multi-contact
>> screens that are fairly cheap.
>>
>> -Will
>
>
>
> A couple of things about that, if you watched the actual Video, you'll see
> that the Acuracy of the touch table that Jeff Han isn't really using the
> sausage finger method when he's messing with several of the apps.  Though
> I
> did notice that a couple of times he was getting the wrong functions when
> he
> was hitting the buttons on one of the apps.  Though, technically, I think
> that was just because of Jeff not really having that much experince with
> the
> Open Source 3D World Map Program for NASA Data.
>
> Plus, he said I belive atleast a minute or two of the Video, that this was
> a
> Low Cost viability.  So I think he is looking at the "Larger Picture" of
> not
> just the Software involved, but the Actual Hardware Devices that will be
> required to create the multi-touch screen effect.  And if I'm right,
> Jeff's
> primary purpose on this project, is the development of the Hardware, and
> aspects of such.
>
>
> Tis all for now,
> Mario Steele
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