Three things:
- Project Natal for Xbox 360-
- 3D monitors / LCDs
- Bumptop 3D desktop
Plus: some really awesome software
Instead of using a keyboard and mouse, use 3D projected images of the 3D desktop and interact with them similar to Tom Cruise in Minority Report minus the gloves and blurry images. Natal supposedly boasts the ability to have speech recognition, facial recognition and spatial real-time modeling (it can tell how close or far, up or down, left or right you are as well as what limbs you are moving). This would be great for certain jobs, think architecture or design say like in Iron Man 1 or 2. Supposing the Natal tech gets put in with the 3D glasses, then the software figures out where you are making contact with objects in 3D. All I can think of is that maybe some pressure sensing gloves might assist in giving the sensation of how heavy / light or that you’ve made contact with something. Plus the gloves might help the software better follow slight or small finger movements that are specific to the user, like training the software / learning. Add speech dictation or just record mp3′s straight to text with video or just record videos for messages. Forget typing text only. Then you can have video calls directly using VOIP and webchat services through google/yahoo/hotmail, etc. At the very least then when we have true 4G connections and phones have 2 cameras on them we can start experiencing a bit of the future now. Or is the future now anyways? Hmm…. where did I park my time machine.
It’s a great idea no doubt. Regardless of any technical hurdles then you eliminate some of the physical issues like carpel tunnel, although you might not fully remove it. Every time I see a science fiction movie like Avatar and people are still “touching” screens and typing on keyboards or flat panel what’s it, I think its just the mindset of people who write films / entertainment media; they still haven’t gotten past the idea that you type on a keyboard, dial numbers on a screen. Why do you even have to insert an ATM card into the ATM, it should just recognize you by voice and face regardless of outfit. Why do you even then having that technology even have to go to an ATM to get “money” how silly does wasting ink and paper / linen become when we have that technology. You have a SSN, a driver’s licencse, and a ton of other numbers… perhaps a debate for a future post.
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