Displays, Input Devices and WPF | The Coffeehouse

joshnuss
Joshua Nussbaum

Now that apps can be drawn completely vector based in a 3D space - it would seem that we are closer to getting those cool 3D hologram displays you see in the movies.

3D could also open up innovation for selection devices that go way beyond the mouse. The current mouse being based on a 2D input model - x and y movements. With the new 3D drawing model, input devices would be better if they could express z axis movement too. Maybe a hand-movement-detection system (like a glove) would be better than a mouse in the 3D world.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

Hmmm... If we would have some 3D display where we can touch everything with the hand and move it with the hand that would be great. Any other 3D input device seems to be very difficult to handle...

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

joshnuss wrote:
Maybe a hand-movement-detection system (like a glove) would be better than a mouse in the 3D world.

Those already exist, a few of them did attempt to sell directly to gamers and consumers, but they weren't very sucessful (mainly due to high prices and the effort involved in holding a hand in mid-air for hours at a time). However "3D Mice" are still sold to the CAD/CAM market.

joshnuss
Joshua Nussbaum

cool!

bonk
Ich bin der Wurstfachverkäuferin !

littleguru wrote:
Hmmm... If we would have some 3D display where we can touch everything with the hand and move it with the hand that would be great. Any other 3D input device seems to be very difficult to handle...

Basically we need TactaPad for 3d space. Check out these videos.