Thank God I'm an atheist - Luis Bunuel
|
|
|
Microsoft pushes sexy new interfaces
SOFTWARE OUTFIT Microsoft is trying to drum up support for its interfaces at this week's Techfest internal science fair.
Speeches at the fair, which is being held without the press invited, seem to indicate that the Vole is not stopping with its Project Natal for the Xbox and is looking at new ways for users to talk to their PCs.
Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie, said in a statement that the transition to a natural user interface will change everything from the way students write term papers and play computer games to how scientists study global population growth and its impact on our natural resources.
According to CNET, the Vole is showing off more ways that the keyboard can go the way of the Dodo including an interface that can play Guitar Hero without a guitar.
It has also been showing off a "Mobile Surface" that combines the gesture recognition of Natal with the concepts in the Surface tabletop computer to create a new kind of mobile device.
Vistors to the show are also getting look at Project Gustav where computer inputs, like a stylus, can start to take on more of the attributes of real world objects such as a pen or a paintbrush.
Quite why the Vole is being so secretive about the whole show is anyone's guess. µ
Share this:
Share
Bill you are such a tool...
Your stink of Apple is unsurpassed by stool...
Stop bashing everything MS does...you just look the fool...
Bashing companies because of R&D is just not cool...
As I said, your such a tool...
where he's doing mandatory morning exercises supervised through the telescreen, kind of eerie similarity to needing a Wii.
Either that or you're on the path to becoming a cyborg.
I'm not thrilled at either prospect.
they have to keep it secret, because apple has patented "device to transfer an electrical charge(wire)" and will sue anyone who uses them for an electronic device.
My idea for a alternate interface was the butt mouse.
Left cheek, right cheek etc.
Tight clinch as a double click, and a fart works like a scroll wheel.
I had direa the other day and read a whole book in 30 seconds, works like a charm.
Have not yet worked out the mess it leaves in my chair. More research needed.
I am also looking voe volenteers for my idea for a Tit-Mouse, gonna meed a lot of research for that one..
This IS the future of interface... i was doing my Wii fitness yesterday and was thinking how much better it would be if i didn't have to hold the controller. I could just move my hand around and point to select the buttons on the screen. This is exactly what MS is perfecting. All you doubters out there will be using this technology for many types of applications in the near future.
Because this new interfaces don't work very well. So, without press, you can avoid unpleasant questions and embarassment (as already happened when win98 BSOD'd at it's first show with no other than Bill Gates speaking. LOL).
M$ is good at copying stuff, not creating new ones. They came out with a tablet years ago, which botched. Now that someone lead the way, they are all about it. They created the XBOX, but to make it sell, they threw so much money at game developers that I doubt X360 will never pay the investment, and it's a bogus console too as no XBOX owner I know never had the 3RL problem. Now they are trying to push things that they "think" will work. All LIVE videos demoing natal has the staff wearing orange "con" jumpsuits. What if it can't really work without that?
Even if it work, it'll be pricey and will lack completely lack feedback. Not to mention they don't have nintendo in-house game development staff.
I also remenbem when M$ tried to buy nintendo, about the launch of the first XBOX, when the former nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi told Steve Ballmer "to lick his yellow balls". Yep it's Ballmer's fault the acquisition failed, as so many other failures he now collects as M$ CEO.
Great...Microsoft finally plans to commission "Operation: iRobot"
This piece of news marks a pivotal day for the vole as a new era of computing comes underway.
I'm afraid technology will be heavily exploited by well-experienced programmers. There will be a time when systems are critically breached and hackers will control the world.
I hope better security implementations are integrated before these new technologies are rolled out to the mainstream. Nobody knows what technology can really do to the future of our society, cough-cough--2012
=O
I predict,that these 'innovations' will largely, be forgotten, before they even get into people's homes.
Just like Touch-Screens,they are bound to be prohibitively expensive five minute 'fads',that will NOT make it to the 'critcal mass' market sales level required to make them pay.
IMHO,I think the keyboard will be here for inputting,for a long time to come.
We'll all be waving our hands in the air to theremin music.
By the way, though I never tried it, from version 4 in 1996, OS/2 had voice control built into it.
But I doubt that voice control or hand waving will ever be practical for more than limited range of *minor* commands, too much room for error otherwise.