Andy Wilson - First look at MSR's "touch light" | TheChannel9Team

Be2

Virtual Space. Gaming.

Instead of walking out the door to go to work I walk into my Screen and cooperate with whoever is there.

I Would certainly save GAS!

Rossj

The way the hand was being moved over the screen made me think about moving windows and giving them some inertia (does the minority report on do this?). Does anybody have any information (papers or whatever) on the usability of windows that keep moving when you drag them out of the way?

eddwo
Wheres my head at?

It's a popular UI concept now. I like the flexibility of just picking things up and sliding things around, though I think my arms would get tired if I had to do it all day.
A recent TV ad for Dixons in the UK had a Minority Report style interface.

Rudi

Forget about any type of bussiness app, I can see myself browsing the complete internet with this type of interface. (isn't that what Tom Cruise did in Minority Report? Lookup information in some sort of document style app? Can't remember myself)

Mapping sites, pages and links into 3D space
Being able to move them around and manipulate each page as a window on the screen.

Now that would be a killer app; a 3D browser with this interface.

Andy: question? When looking at the video, the camera images seem to have some sort of 3D effect. I would assume that with goggles, real 3D could be achieved.
Is there any thinking going on about that? (I did not yet read the paper)

NetMage

NetRyder wrote:
Minority Report becoming a reality =)

I think Earth:Final Conflict was there way before Minority Report Smiley

awilson

Actually TouchLight is my work, not Stewart Tansley's. In this video, Stewart is interviewing me (Andy Wilson) who's showing the demo in the video.

TouchLight will be presented in October at the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2004). A copy of the paper can be found at

http://research.microsoft.com/~awilson/papers/icmi 2004 touchlight.pdf

I'm very appreciative of all your comments!

Andy Wilson

Porter

Obviously it has some great military applications, the first one being a TOC (Tactical Operations Command) board for displaying troop placements of both friendly and OPFOR. This way everyone in the TOC has complete access from both sides (much easier from briefings), and then this could be linked and shared with the ALOC (Army Logistical Operations Command).
In this way, the board becomes much easier to update, and you can also demonstrate real time across the battlefield to the S1/S4 (Personnel/Supply) what is going on, how the battlefield is moving and taking shape, and with multi-linking capabilities you can transmit this data both up and down the chain of command and do briefing as well as Operations Orders to the smaller units.

Additionally as the technology progesses, with smaller mobile ones that can link via sattelite, your SPECOPS forces now have a real time vision of the battlefield, plus a way to input data to the commander.

One more thing that would be really cool to see would be the ability to take your images and layer them and then bring them to a full 3D projection. For example, you lay in your terrain input which has been taken from sattelite, drone, etc. and rendered from 3D to 2D, then you lay in your friendly and OPFOR forces, put a scale on it for accuracy, rotate the window to a horizontal position and project your 3D image much like a hologram with rotational ability for a better study of the battlefield and troop movement/access, and weapons placement.

OK...sorry, 12 years in the Army will do that to a person. Smiley

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