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Too many negative comments here. Folks, "there's nothing new", until there is. At some point, new tech is a toy and dismissed because of its limitations. The whole idea is to identify those limitations and push through them. SpaceX actually has some use for new ways to interact with virtual 3D objects. Everyone is focusing on modelling, but there's also the visualization. Which can be more important than the modellin…
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 is like the 8th (?) time I've seen this on HN. Also, roughly everything that is amazing about this interface is the Leap Motion Controller. They're not getting enough press from this.
Congratulations! You are a special little snowflake. This was the first time I've seen this posted and I found it cool so I appreciate the post.
Better not let new people see stuff you personally have seen before! What would the world come to if that was allowed?
Sorry guys. While the "concept" is nice, i think this is quite overselling a new "manifacturing" process which obviously (at least for anyone who has any CAD modeling and manifacturing experience) is far from being anyhow usable in industry. Why overselling? Because the precision provided by that tool (as shown in the video) is surely not enough to achieve anything other than reviewing CAD models.
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…
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…
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 nee…
Does it translate out to most people surfing the internet and jockeying Excel all day? No. But in the field of designing 3D mechanical things, 2D mice are not the norm right now.
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…
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 nee…
At the end, he makes the statement that this will revolutionize design and manufacturing, but I don't think that's pretty reasonable, given that Space X is in the business of design and manufacturing, not VR research.
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Wasn't this a scene from a Ben Affleck movie? Paycheck I think it was called.
For those that are interested, here is a link to the scene: http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/clips/paych...
We all know who Elon Musk is talking to. It's not us. It's the other billion people on youtube who will watch this and go, "this is the coolest thing I have ever seen".
This is definitely not geared toward techies. The closeup of the mouse and keyboard in the first few seconds is meant to make average people think "Oooh, this is high tech."