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| Time: 00:14 EST/05:14 GMT | News Source: Seattle PI | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Flat-panel displays might be all the rage, but at least in some situations, Microsoft thinks the shape of things to come might be a sphere.
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| #1 By 8556 (12.210.39.82) at 7/29/2008 8:12:46 AM |
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"In the spherical version of the classic Pong arcade game, for example, people can place their hands on the surface to direct bouncing balls around the sphere." Mentioning Pong in the context of a new display technology indicates that it will be of limited use. If it can be further developed to present 3D, instead of flat images, that might become popular.
I can't foresee rotating a sphere to read my e-mail. At least it is innovative. |
| #2 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 7/29/2008 9:36:36 AM |
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Me neither; show me a mirror I can read emails and news while I am shaving, I would buy it right away!
Btw di not MS showed something like this many years ago? Around 1998/1999? I mean the interactive mirror. |
| #3 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at 7/29/2008 8:21:26 PM |
| Boy...I'm trying to see where they are going with this one... and thinking about what manifestations the technology might appear in... and... umm.. can't - not outside of event spaces, or many facing information kiosks. As a technology mule, it could be used to drive research into much smaller interactive input devices, or lab group teaching tools... I dunno... I'm having a tough time seeing into... errrr, around... this one... Still... kinda cool.. "The Info Orb" |
| #4 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at 7/30/2008 1:58:40 AM |
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This looks like pure R&D until you see what their partner has done...
http://www.globalimagination.com/video.html Now, imagine that parter using Virtual Earth... which is the crux of MSFT's agreement with this company. And NOW, imagine bringing that technology down to a much more reasonable expense for consumers. And if you can imagine any further, think about that globe sitting in your son's room with some whizbang integration with their pc. Pretty powerful, I'd say. |
| #5 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 7/30/2008 8:22:13 AM |
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At this point we are all just speculating but I think that we will see an holographic projection of the Earth before using that sphere to do it. And not because it would not be feasable but because holographic seems, at least to an average human like me, a much more flexible technology that could have many more applications.
I am not sure if I will be able to see it but if the past teaches us something, and it always does it, whatever we will get in the future it will come in a form that is very different than what we are imagining here now. |
| #6 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at 7/30/2008 9:38:12 AM |
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#4/5, That would be cool, but we'd want a really big one that we could walk around - drilling into great detail would be very educational, too.
I think what you are both saying is that "interface" as it applies, or my apply in the future, means not so much as to how we interface with various technologies, but as much how they may interface with we users? We are a very visual species, so perhaps interfaces will take on greater depth - further back being older, closer to being more recent - I wish MS, for example, had extended Flip-3D to Windows Explorer in that way - making it available within the file system. I hope they add that capability, because on large monitors especially, it is a great way to quickly see and select what one wants by way of applications. It would be nice to see it extended to the file system. |
| #7 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 7/30/2008 11:37:58 AM |
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#6: Iketchum do you remember all those "concept cars" in the late 50', early 60'? Turbine or jet engines, thins all over, glass canopies etc? They were supposed to be the future of automobiles and they never materialized; in the same way today we think in terms of spheres, surface computers and animated panels as the future but who knows? Maybe my daughter, again I do not think I will still be around at that time, will wear a watch projecting a screen in mid-air and she will interact with it with her brain waves or maybe they will have projectors hidden in walls and ceilings projecting images in any point in the house or maybe...
they will have something completely different from what we are imagining right now. There are so many concepts we forecasted that never materialized like the the return of big frameworks and thin clients in the mid nineties, right before Windows 95 launch; and a lot people theorized, wrongly btw, the end of personal PC; what about the "paperless office"? I have more paper around now than ten years ago. :-) This post was edited by Fritzly on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 11:39. |
| #8 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at 7/30/2008 2:29:37 PM |
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#7, Oh my yes, and fondly...
Back in the day... we were more amazed about what the future would hold post war. Anti-Biotics, new medicines and simpler things.. like oh I don't know.. meat, sugar, butter - all the while dealing with enormous guilt over not having been ripped to shreds like many other countries and a deep sense to share so much of what we had - hence why the houses we built post war were made up of scrap lumber while we sent all the new lumber to Europe and Japan to stand them back up. Electricity was cool, too - 1954 for most in my neck of the woods. That and getting used to so much that for so long had been rare. It was the little things... toothpaste for example - used to be tooth powder - two brands... post war, 10 of them. See, war manufacturing techniques were applied to all things - making all things plentiful. We never saw any of that coming and never expected things to evolve so quickly. Cars were actually slow to evolve and not really driven by American innovation. The Japanese and Germans brought that. The wonder of things didn't really return for us intil Apollo. That was magic. We all expected that to just continue - BUT IT DIDN"T. Terribly sad. So yeah, you're right on - things rarely end up as we expect them to. |
| #9 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at 7/30/2008 2:40:49 PM |
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I really enjoy the perspective you provide Lloyd. Thank you.
FWIW, I'll take a hologram or multi-touch globe. Both sound cuil, I mean, cool. |
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