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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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nothingspecial wrote: post #28
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'…

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) The ideas behind the WWW had been floating around for a good while. TBL just went ahead and…

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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 samuelfine »

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.

Exactly. If "going ahead and making it" was the only barrier, why didn't it exist yet?

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

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ErrantX wrote: post #33
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'…

> they just went ahead and made it Upon such things, many successes are based :)

I'm not disagreeing with you. It's just that they take all this tech other people have worked out, slapped it together and are now happily implying that they're somehow visionaries, and that they should get credit for that and everything else they're using.

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

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Post by coldtea »

DanBC wrote: post #59

HN 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…

>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)

Well, more colours, more animation, more GPU power, etc are enablers of very important stuff that was impossible back in the day. For example, you didn't edit live video streams, with filters applied in real time, on those 40 year old version. We also have multi-touch now.

I'n not sure about the "we're stuck" meme. It's like taking for granted that there is something entirely different for UI interaction (as opposed to incrementally better).

Well, 3D interfaces are about as old as the WIMP. And what experience has showed as those 20-30 years we experiment with them is they are not really better for a lot of stuff.

Some things are just better in a specific way -- in the way that, say, reading gives us more information density than speach or watching a video, so those can never replace it and still have that.

Or in the way that speech recognition is a nice novelty, and perhaps essential for people with hand inpedements (or with hands engaged in another activity), but it's extremely tiring for writing a blog post or input of large-ish amounts of text (as anyone who had to talk for a presentation or a class of students for an hour or more already knows).

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

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Post by washedup »

At one point while manipulating the CAD software, the person conducting has to use their hand as a mouse. They stick out their pointer finger and slowly move the cursor around. This is not much different from using a mouse. However, it makes visualizing the manifold very simple and intuitive, which gives this experiment real value.

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

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Post by sp332 »

This looks quite a bit less useful than Oblong's tech, which is already commercially available. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcMhZ9J0qN8 That's John Underkoffler, the MIT Media Lab guy who designed the Minority Report interface and thought it was realistic.

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

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Post by JonFish85 »

sp332 wrote: post #77

This looks quite a bit less useful than Oblong's tech, which is already commercially available. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcMhZ9J0qN8 That's John Underkoffler, the MIT Media Lab guy who designed the Minority Report interface and thought it was realistic.

Didn't a few people at MIT do this about 5 years ago? I seem to recall seeing something like this in demo form (not production-ready, obviously) about that long ago. It could read gestures and perform functions (i.e. if you framed something with your fingers, the built-in camera would take the picture), if I recall correctly.

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

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Post by 31reasons »

Can you really make hand sculpted rockets parts for rockets that can go to space ? I thought they need micrometer accuracy for million reasons and can only be "made" using CAD softwares with mathematical precision. Its a great demo but bit misleading.
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