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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
#62Why is He the tony stark and not the people who have been working with leap motion devices for years now?
Do they make rockets?
Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
#63Amazing technology by what I consider one of the greatest visionaries of our generation. I do wonder however if this is something you could do all day, instead of using a mouse. It seems rather straining, holding your arms in front of you all day.
Unless there's no gravity giving your arms weight.
Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
#64Earlier 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.
Well, yea except it builds heavily on what others are doing, yet articles like this sensationalize it and act like he invented it himself. Take the LEAP motion for example. That is a major component that he had no involvement in.
Everything we all do in life builds heavily on what others have done before us. The article explicitly states the components he used. The interesting part of the article is that he's attempting to take these extremely new and young components and use them together for something that helps them engineer components of their rockets. That's the way forward for many of these technologies is to find real viable use cases and refine them until using it for that given purpose is successful.
Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
#65Seems 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.
It's great for marketing, sure, though they're working on technology that they feel will help with the efficiencies of developing. I hope it helps.
Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
#66Where's the bit where he designs something rather than throws predesigned meshes around?
Also, I've seen people working in SolidWorks. They were far more impressive than this!
Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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…
Just how I feel about his brand: he'll probably build it. And that is pretty big. We face a lot of disappointment when it comes to tech promises. They don't all have to me amazing and change out lives now, so long as they credibly _could_ later. Musk seems to actually implement things and has the power to actually drive a project forward, so this is neat.
Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
#68HN again has some depressingly negative comments. It's good that there are people with the disposable income, and the engineering resources, to tinker with stuff like this. This particular iteration may not be interesting to you, but we're stuck with WIMP (or WIMP-lite) environments very similar to the 40 year old versions. (More colours, more animation, bigger icons, but little actual change). Kludging together desk…
I agree that tinkering is good, but this seem more like hype than tinkering. This demo (rotating stuff with gestures) has been done over and over, and hyped up each time as the future, like in the movies, and doing it one more time is not engineering and is not problem-solving. Real experimentation is one thing, but more glitzy demos that aren't actually usable is the last thing "virtual reality" type interfaces need: that's been what has sunk the field over and over for 30 years and gotten it a negative reputation.
Particularly the part about how it's from the Iron Man movie is silly, because it's not like this is some futuristic interface that previously only existed in films. It's been done, in real life, a number of times. The hard problem is making it usable, not just demoing its mere existence yet again.
Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
#69ApeArms™: you're going to have them in the future.
I don't think the idea of holding my arms out for interacting with the computer is a good idea, no matter who builds it.
Re: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
#70Seems 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.
It's not useful for engineering yet.