news.com.com— Microsoft comes up with a way for people to navigate computer images using their hands to change their point-of-view.
Jul 19, 2006View in Crawl 4
The NYU project was touch based interaction. From what I read in the article Microsoft isn't doing just touch. It is how the hand is actually formed and moved. Very different.
Lifting your hands in the air with no arm support for more than 5 minutes becomes tiring, so I believe people won't use this technology for something more than a quick fix (arranging your photo album in front of your TV, for instance), never for extensive office work (as in "Minority Report"). The multi-touch LCD desk (as in "The Island"), looks more promising as a next generation human-computer interface for office/school work.
casbeebcJul 19, 2006
The NYU project was touch based interaction. From what I read in the article Microsoft isn't doing just touch. It is how the hand is actually formed and moved. Very different.
gcube9xJul 19, 2006
I seriously doubt that technology could be feasible.
jinexileJul 19, 2006
You'd be wrong, this sort of navigation is on the horizon using multiple different techniques, one includes laser tracking.
palhotoJul 19, 2006
Lifting your hands in the air with no arm support for more than 5 minutes becomes tiring, so I believe people won't use this technology for something more than a quick fix (arranging your photo album in front of your TV, for instance), never for extensive office work (as in "Minority Report"). The multi-touch LCD desk (as in "The Island"), looks more promising as a next generation human-computer interface for office/school work.
geomonJul 19, 2006
This will never work. Most users hands are already busy doing *other things* when viewing images.
hchaudh1Jul 19, 2006
Meh....I like this better:<a class="user" href="http://www.gomonkey.at/en/index2.htm">http://www.gomonkey.at/en/index2.htm</a>Also check out the video.