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- argash, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26ME WANT ME WANT!!!! How freaking cool would this be! WC3 and other RTS games seem like a natural fit for a display of this type, but I bet Civ 4 and sim city type games would be great on this too
- NiNJ4gamer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28Not only that, but imagine the possibilities that this would open up for tabletop D&D with miniatures...
- CaptainEO, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19But if you haven't seen it, it's new to you!
- SkyFire360, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19If you think the Koreans were crazy about StarCraft with a mouse and keyboard...
- shiftt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12this definitely opens a door of possibilities
not just for gaming, but for 3D modeling, architecture, design.
Image a group of architects sitting at a huge conference table being able to observe a structure from every angle
I wonder how long before we see this technology in everyday use - danjal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9you know, that would work on so many levels, nobody could knock the stuff over.. not a bad idea.
- EternalDarkWing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The future of RTS gaming
- eldertaco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It's called a DiamondTouch table and it's made by Mitsubishi.
Check it out at http://www.merl.com/projects/DiamondTouch/ - pozzoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I love the idea of a table top display like this, what I find weird is that he starts showing features of google earth and explain them as if he had created them.
- dpl_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Dunno, I think it would be kinda hard to pull off the über micro...
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It's been done, and it's freakin awesome:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/15/2146215
http://www.d20srd.org/extras/mapProjection.htm
The guy progressively reveals parts of the map as the party explores, by erasing a mask layer. - Nyfeh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6How long to you expect a mouse and keyboard to last... Realistically?
- D4RKfantasy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5One word guys.....
Spore. - AndyManCan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Meh, first time I've watched it. Some of us are older and slower than use crazy kids you know.
- muffins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Taking Micro to a new level.
- Ender0910, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Pretty awesome!
I wish he didn't spend most of the video talking about Google Earth and WC3's features as if they were his own. Nonetheless, interfacing with those features was cool. - EntropyMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I had the same thought. Google Earth was designed so that wherever you click with the mouse acts like your finger touching a virtual 3D globe. So making that work with single-touch screens is a no brainer. Multi-touch for zoom is nice though. Not a new idea, but not as easy to implement -- would be better if also worked such that the two points you touch always stay fixed on the globe.
- Tiabin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Looks really cool, but I think for someone who has been gaming for so many years using a mouse in games it might actually be cumbersome. One reason I'm so quick with the mouse is I'm able to make very precise movements since I'm resting my wrist on the table. I could see something like this being VERY useful for education of young children still developing their motor skills.
- gregmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I want my entire floor to be that screen so i can run aroudn the world without even leaving the room.
- pr0t0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3
Very, very cool. So...how do I make one? Clearly they projected the video from above, and perhaps the voice recognition is off-the-shelf, but how did they do the gesture recognition? Large touch-screen overlay with custom designed macros?
Saving my pennies now. - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The projector's on the ceiling, pointing down at the table.
- paradynexus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hi, my name is Edward Tse and I am one of the authors of this work. Some of your comments have been addressed in my blog. You can view this blog at http://paradynexus.blogspot.com/. Also, if you want to view more videos of the work that we have done on digital tables, please visit http://edwardhtse.googlepages.com/edwardtse-videos.html
- Cornstar23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Digg needs a separate video page, something like videosift.
- Dari, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6The next time somebody says "Dupe." or "OLD!" on Digg, there are going to be some icepick drillings around here. :)
- babyblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2awesome, would make a great coffee table for my future home setup ^.~
wonder how much it would cost. - 2drunk2funk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2First I have seen of this, did not realise this technology had advanced this far.
This will open so many more possibilities, not only in games but in business as well.
Can't wait :) - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3[quote]How long to you expect a mouse and keyboard to last... Realistically?[/quote]
Mice will be gone within about a decade, but we'll be using keyboards for many years to come. Perhaps it will be a virtual keyboard projected onto a surface, or visible in your VR goggles, but you'll still need something to enter text quickly and reliably. Handwriting recognition and voice recognition needs alot more work before it will replace the keyboard entirely. And who wants to dictate everything they write, anyway? - nsummy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wonder what something like that costs!
- finalmillenium, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'll just have to break out my bowel diruptor gun. And go troll hunting. lol. Sorry old D20 modern habits die hard.
- ubiquityxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah - saw this at siggraph last year. Pretty sweet minus your shadow.
Interaction is simple and fast. Get it on a flat panel and I'm sold. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Reminds me of the doctors desktop in The Island
- ghostaliaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am not a gamer, but plan to start, but the digital tables are so cool & as soon as they come out I want & I hope they come out soon because I want one or two, but it does depend on the price. I was thinking that maybe I could do the samething now, but on a lower more low budget scale without the hand tracking system or what ever they are using & take a projector screen mount it to a tabletop (or) simply use a white background & put a projector over it mounted above it, to sorta get the same effect & then keep some room at the end of the table for a mouse or use my cheap low budget (P5 Glove 3D Virtual Controller) that I bought on clearance for little or nothing. Yeh I know it is not the samething, but I am simply giving a maybe alternative for people like me that is very excited about these digital tabletops because I think they are the ultimate coolest. oh & by the way the(P5 Glove 3D Virtual Controller) sorta works like minorty report, but just in a mouse sorta way. I simply just use the virtual glove in mouse mode, not game mode & it takes some getting use to, but what does not. But anyway cool product & I hope to see this in the stores sometime soon. Yeh the future is finally on it's way & yes I am a geek(haha). I live for these types of products.Yes
- ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A flat table isn't very ergonomic...now if it was mounted on a drafting table...that would be sweet.
- dakkon2399, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually it would be perfect for medical use, and we are nearing that point where perspective wouldn't be an issue. Instead of projecting it on the table, the image could be projected to the eyes of each viewer. There is already research in this area (specifically it's use for VR). I'm not sure how the gesture interaction would coincide with the individual projections but the fact is we are on the verge of these type of solutions being realized:)
- awesomo4000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Frustrated Total Internal Reflection looks a little cooler...
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/ - mhl12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1holy crap! that's amazing! The voice interaction and touch pad is practically flawless.
- mikeismyname, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1true, but its gonna be $$
- dakkon2399, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not just D&D miniatures, but D&D tabletop using maps and miniatures or any other rpg for that matter:)
- seanmc303, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8OMG! You Nerd!
*admit* I was thinking the same thing - judsond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Healthcare too, imaging data is usually looked at by multiple people at once. This has a lot of potential uses.
- PrometheuZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love geeks! If for nothing else, then this! Dugg!
- joshHighland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this type of interface is not now. i saw a better touch table set up years ago at the ESRI user conference. wait until the end of the video to watch the table actually take on the topography of the map they are looking at in 3 dimentions.
http://www.touchtable.com/dev/News/00009.html - sirnicholai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would definitely like such a page, because even thought there are sites like videosift out there, they aren't as good as digg's layout, and the number of people using them isn't big enough.
- Arobas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you want to see another kind of multi-touch.. this one is nice but you should see that one!
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/multitouchreel.mp4 (VIDEO)
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirsense/index.html (main page)
Made by NYU
(btw, both of them was published 3 months ago on Engadget ;p) - sastian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1not impressed. speech commands have been around for a while. minus the surface i could do most of this with a projector and a mac. basically a cintique without a stylus, and he acts as if he wrote the programs.
- thetyrant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I command Google Earth on really building a great tool that is being ported over to the game development market. This can really be a usable tool. Not sure how much setup is, and cost for this. But this would be something hardcore RTS'ers would get into. among other games. How about general deskstops used with the same technology.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Healthcare too, imaging data is usually looked at by multiple people at once. This has a lot of potential uses."
The only problem with multiple people looking at this from all sides is the text would be upside down for the person on the far side of the display. I could just imagine all the lawsuits resulting from a doc operating on the say the left leg when he was suppose to work on the right, all because he was looking at the image from the wrong side of the table. (Not that those errors don't happen today) - wvdavis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't game,,, but that is WAY cool!
- saudama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That would be interesting to have. In this time, however, I don't know if it would be as important as a common PC or laptop.
- jadacyrus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Awesome. Digg.
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