It's highly coincidental that this topic came up, since I too was greatly impressed by the user interface ideas presented in Iron Man. Immediately afterward, that's all I could think and talk about. I'm glad I'm not the only one who had that kind of reaction...
[spoiler] I was intrigued with the manipulation of the suit design model in 3D holographic space (and the trash can. nice touch.). I had this anticipatory excitement come over me, since what appeared in Minority Report became reality (to a some degree) in Perceptive Pixel, and because just over the last week or so there have been discussions on this list regarding free hand gestures, so perhaps we will see the holographic 3D interactions in the not too distant future... very exciting to think about. [/spoiler] Film sure can be great inspiration. Thanks for bringing up the topic! /// eks > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:discuss- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Micheletti > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 9:31 AM > To: Kim Bieler > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] list > Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Iron Man > > Warning, potential spoilers... > > The assembled teens at our house took us along and we all had a good time. > There were two thought-provoking things for me: > > 1. Most unrealistic moment in the film: when Jeff Bridges plugs the stolen > power supply into the Evil Robot and it works first off, without needing to > shim, rewire the connector, configure the IP address, etc. I laughed aloud. > Flying robots and 3-D talking holograms seem much more likely somehow. > > 2. Thing I was surprised and delighted by: the giant fighting robots in the > film could be operated by adults. Many of the mechas among my anime > favorites can only, inexplicably, be operated by middle school students. > > Michael Micheletti > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
