[citation][nom]thesupermedium[/nom]Everyone will have mad biceps![/citation]
My laugh of the morning..thanks
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Just because a person has not physically used this interface does not mean that they cannot form a realistic opinion of it. We have seen demos of such, albiet less advanced, interface concepts for years. Also, could you imagine a company letting you work for half the time because the interface makes you "tired" ? I doubt it.
I work in the mechanical design field and to me a gesture-based 3d interface *is* completely useless for anything but presentations. How exactly are you supposed to input exact numbers & complex commands? Now for presentations, as long as the presenter is not overzealous with radical hand movements while speaking this might be a usefull tool. key word... might.
On the other hand, a true 3d (hologram) display *would* be usefull. In *this* circumstance a few simple gestures to rotate, pan, zoom in and perhaps form an exploded view could be handy. The actual design phase would be better accomplished with a 2d interface though. Unless you are somehow comparing this to the ironman movie, in which case the programs the supercomputer would need to do this would be a work of art. The ability to instantly design & create a working mechanical piece from mere finger strokes is genious. Sorry for the sarcasm.. but hollywood is hollywood, at least for the next few hundred years.