Multi-Touch Interaction
Monday, February 13th, 2006
World of Apple has a video showing something called Multi-Touch I […]

It’s actually Jeff Han’s Research project at NYU..

http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/

APPLE IS not going to spend money on something they can’t market right away.

“Apple’s all-seeing screen” sounds like a multi touch display to me.

But, as a amateur cheap-o game dev, the vast gaming potential for this. I mean, I can immagine starcraft on here so fluid…seriously, why would we ever need a mouse or keyboard with this? It showed that a keyboard can be overlaid easily on it, and a mouse seems almost primitive.

I can imagine a special glove for it, with a “stylus” coming out of each finger, for precise work.

This would revolutionize workstations as well. What if the screen could be semi-circular and wrap around the person?

Now, this kind of technology would probably not be as useful for most people doing internet browsing, typical office work, etc where keyboard input and a 17″ screen are sufficient. But for power users particularly in the video field where I use two 21″ monitors, this indeed would be revolutionary.

As a graphic artist and video editor, I would love to have an interface like this. Yeah a small tablet would be ok, but if i could get a desktop with that kind of input ability (along with a standard mouse and keyboard), large screen size, man, the sky’s the limit!

The creativity of this just blew my mind away, and I immediatly thought of how people thought of holographic projecters made from the future like the Jetsons or other shows representing the future way back when before we even thought this was possible. And now I stand here whitnessing one of the potentially greatest things ever made since the iPod made by Apple!. And I believe that they will provide the great quality again and show a good price for such amazing products.

My imagination of what will happen in ten years with this made sooner or later… I think that it will become another custom from people all around the world, and people will find it hard to live without when they have made this a daily part of their routines. This is truely a brother of Nintendo’s Revolution and I think that both of these will make the people realize the creativity that can be unleashed through human’s technology made today.

They who own this (and produce a decent OS/Software to use it) shall be the face of computing for years to come.

Now all you need is handwriting recognition… oh look Apple is hiring for that already.

After this it’s down to waiting for holograms & forcefields (well magnetic repulsion/gravity systems)

PS your vid link is now broken
Oh wait there is one more thing you can add to it texture that maybe where this comes in handy…
http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/15/new-magnetic-chips-could-offer-higher-speeds-at-lower-power/

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Has anyone tried downloading the video and turning up the contrast in windows media player. you can start to see under the stand the screen is on!

What they really like to say is that we will buy or use it once Microsoft makes a cheaper albeit slower, clunky and constantly hanging version! But at the current rate Microsoft is going(anyone seen the Vista Beta will know) we will still be clicking on the ‘START’ button to shutdown aPC well into the next century!

Now they’d need one of the existing advanced keyboards, instead of QWERTY, to make the touch entry work. Something like fitaly or even better MessagEase, which is actually design for touch screens.

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Multi-Touch Interaction Research

I found an interesting article on World of Mac about Multi-Touch Interaction Research by Jeff Han. […]

Also at the end of the day all you want you i pod to do is play music and possibly video. The fancy stuff is just to make you continually buy the new one so that people don’t moan so much about the fact that they always break after a year!

Again, the idea is amazing and shows some potential in certain applications, but I don’t see this replacing the mouse anytime soon. The best part of the demo, in my opinion, is the programs they play with.