one of the things that was brought up - maybe on this list, i can't
recall - with the Minority Report 3D gestural interface was that it
would ridiculously exhausting to stand around all day with waving your
hands in the air with your arms raised up hight than your chest.
try doing it for 10 minutes.
jd
On May 8, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Jeff Axup wrote:
I'm sure many of us enjoy watching sci-fi movies and reading fiction
which
explores the future of UI design and technologies. I must admit
feeling very
inspired by the Iron Man concept of having the ability to design and
produce
advanced technologies in one's own home. To a large extent, web
entrepreneurs can already do that, so it can be a reality now - with
the
right skills.
However, something to bear in mind with film and book depictions of
technologies: They are not designed to work for real people. They
are not
designed to be feasible. They are not designed to be cost-effective.
What
they are designed to do is to have visual appeal, or to sound
exciting.
Bruce Sterling (an author of such books) makes this point clearly
here:
http://www.vimeo.com/769193
VR and gestural interfaces and anything 3D certainly do have some
application in the real world, but more importantly, they look
really good
flashing up from a designer desk in a mansion in Malibu. =)
-Jeff
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Evan K. Stone <
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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
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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
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