does this mean that Elon Musk is Iron Man??
Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
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Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
#22I'll have to go against the grain here, but this isn't anything special.
The Leap has been around for a good while, the Occulus Rift has been around for a good while, and 3D Laser Sintering has been around for a while, along with every other technology they're using for this application.
Also, I believe they're the wrong people to use it. Making the feedback involved visual instead of mathematical/geometrical has it's applications (quickly looking through the design), but it'll still have to be made to precise tolerances, and that's an engineers job, not a sculptors.
On the other hand, it's perfect for sculptors and designers. If their setup is considerably improved in resolution, designers can get very fast visual feedback, and trying out things suddenly becomes very cheap. Architects can mold parts of their buildings, your furniture can get those last brushes before it's milled out, and your phone can be molded to "just perfect".
But this isn't a Musk thing, nor is it an Iron Man thing, the idea has been floating around for a good while, the tech is there, they just went ahead and made it. That's not groundbreaking, and it isn't revolutionizing manufacturing.
Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
#23Since when does designing something consist only of zooming and panning the obviously already designed object? Nice for presentation, but now try offestting a single component a couple of mm with it, which is something you typically do a lot in CAD.
Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
#24Seems clear he is doing this to increase his personal brand as the "real life tony stark" as opposed to it actually being useful for engineering. His personal brand is an enormous asset on the balance sheet of his companies, so I really respect this - but lets call it what it is.
You are right. This has no engineering benefits, but it surely helps the Tesla & SpaceX Stock.
Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
#25This looks nice, but I doubt that it's really much more productive than the usual 3D mice (SpaceMouse) setup that almost every CAD shop uses. Just like touchscreens are hardly superior to ordinary mice, when you can afford to lug the latter about. And much more prone to gorilla arm syndrome. So for a desk, this is probably no big win. Maybe for some kind of highly integrated CAVE setup, where you'd be wandering about…
> This looks nice, but I doubt that it's really much more productive...
You're missing the point. Musk's life is actually an elaborate experiment to see what would happen if you took a very smart 11 year-old and gave him a billion dollars to build toys.
Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
#26"Elon Musk Learns Leap Motion and builds a grabbing tool" should probably be the title. I don't get what the hype is all about. It looks as though as his team just created a program that can change the position and rotation of a virtual model in space. I know the community here on HN seems to worship Elon Musk, but that demo definitely was NOT making the Iron Man gesture interface real.
Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
#27I'll have to go against the grain here, but this isn't anything special. The Leap has been around for a good while, the Occulus Rift has been around for a good while, and 3D Laser Sintering has been around for a while, along with every other technology they're using for this application. Also, I believe they're the wrong people to use it. Making the feedback involved visual instead of mathematical/geometrical has it'…
the tech is there, they just went ahead and made it. That's not groundbreaking
And that's where we disagree.
To me that's the very definition of groundbreaking.
Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
#28I'll have to go against the grain here, but this isn't anything special. The Leap has been around for a good while, the Occulus Rift has been around for a good while, and 3D Laser Sintering has been around for a while, along with every other technology they're using for this application. Also, I believe they're the wrong people to use it. Making the feedback involved visual instead of mathematical/geometrical has it'…
Just like the world wide web was nothing special since at the time it was invented
* tcp/ip and the internet had been around for a good while
* client/server document browsing had been around for a good while and
* hypertext documents with clickable links generated from markup
had been around for while (microsoft help viewer)
Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
#29Seems clear he is doing this to increase his personal brand as the "real life tony stark" as opposed to it actually being useful for engineering. His personal brand is an enormous asset on the balance sheet of his companies, so I really respect this - but lets call it what it is.
Of course this will be useful for engineering. Maybe not in it's current state but in future, better versions.
He and his team are trying out some really cool ideas. While most of us work on apps that involve displaying text and pictures, this guy has the good fortune to be able to play with rockets and cars etc. Good for the World that not everybody is working on another app.
Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
#30> To top it all off, the team then printed the part in titanium using a 3D laser metal printer.
If such a beast does exist I'd be even more amazed than the leapmotion controller. But I have a nagging feeling the author doesn't know what they are talking about.
milling =/= printing
Edit: Well then, I stand corrected. I wasn't even aware there were 3D metal printers available.