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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

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Post by DasIch »

yardie wrote: post #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.

Such a thing does exist and it's explained in the video, although it's not exactly printing and the wikipedia article doesn't call it printing either[1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_metal_laser_sintering

Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real

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Post by thisishugo »

jrkelly wrote: post #31
flexie wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>Good for the World that not everybody is working on another app. Couldn't agree more with that. I'm just explaining the reason you are seeing this is primarily for PR purposes -- which is a huge part of his job. HN should be able to tell the difference between good PR and good tech.

>HN should be able to tell the difference between good PR and good tech.

The two are not mutually exclusive. This is as valid a tech demo as, say, some esoteric ECMAScript 6 feature no one can yet use.

Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real

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Post by [deleted] »

mattmanser wrote: post #27
solistice wrote: post #22

I'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.

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Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real

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Post by skore »

jrkelly wrote: post #31
flexie wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>Good for the World that not everybody is working on another app. Couldn't agree more with that. I'm just explaining the reason you are seeing this is primarily for PR purposes -- which is a huge part of his job. HN should be able to tell the difference between good PR and good tech.

> HN should be able to tell the difference between good PR and good tech.

You know what? I make an exception to that in Elons case. There are plenty of people who do that and who leave us pretty much where we were before. Think of the tons of Microsoft Research projects that are mighty cool and are thrown in our face every half year or so... but never go anywhere expect right in the basket of "well, I guess Microsoft isn't entirely dead, yet" PR.

Is this extremely exciting stuff in itself? No. But it is still exciting to me because I know if Elon does it, he will follow up and make the best of the opportunity. It is the marriage between the person and the project - in the Microsoft example, some, probably mostly PR, division comes up with "oh, I suppose that's neat" on a regular basis, but what they do has no direct link to any real life implementation. What you need is that connection of being able to dream big and execute big - and for that, the impulse has to come from engineering, not PR.

It's like knowing that Carmack is hooked on VR goggles. For some things, the person doing the thing really makes all the difference in the world.

Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real

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Post by farmdawgnation »

jrkelly wrote: post #31
flexie wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>Good for the World that not everybody is working on another app. Couldn't agree more with that. I'm just explaining the reason you are seeing this is primarily for PR purposes -- which is a huge part of his job. HN should be able to tell the difference between good PR and good tech.

Why do good PR and good tech have to be mutually exclusive? Especially in a community such as Hacker News, shouldn't they be the same thing, in a way?

Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real

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Post by TomAnthony »

jrkelly wrote: post #31
flexie wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>Good for the World that not everybody is working on another app. Couldn't agree more with that. I'm just explaining the reason you are seeing this is primarily for PR purposes -- which is a huge part of his job. HN should be able to tell the difference between good PR and good tech.

Need there be a "difference" between the two? Can this not be both - using cool tech they've developed for PR?

Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real

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Post by scotty79 »

rwinn wrote: post #3

Very similar to what Oliver Kreylos has been doing with the oculus and hydra controller. Check his videos out, some amazing stuff in there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_HH-ucA_Us

I live in cool times. I can watch it in 3d on el cheapo 3D LG 23' monitor and feel amazed.
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