Linked by Nicholas Blachford on Thu 19th Feb 2004 20:06 UTC
No, I'm not going all "New Age" on you, this time I'm looking at how computers are going to get a 3rd dimension and how this will change the way we interact with them. The previous parts of this series have been based on extrapolations or previous history. This time I'm looking further forward, when technologies currently in long term development become available and open up a whole new realm of possibilities.
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I think 3d is totally overrated and just making things 3d isnt going to do a whole major amount different for interacting with things. All hail 2D forever!
I can't see these `new advances` being much more than a passing fad or novelty. Wow, let's use the funky touch gloves and move the knows. Cool, see how they turn. Who cares.
I don't think it matters if computers are 1D, 2D, 3D of infinityD, it's not the dimensions of the display device that make a different, it's what's being displayed, how it is designed and what it allows you to do.. Okay so a selling point is all this new `what you can do that you couldn't do already` stuff, but it's not much.
The closer we get to a true representation of the physical world the less interesting it is. While we linger in a limbo of `not quite there` things are much more interesting. If we had displays that looked real we'd be bored. Who cares, it's reality. People like to live in fantasy. The audience will have to overcome their addiction to illusions and delusions in order to think that this super-real system would be appealing.
Do I get excited and freaked out about seeing a perfect real-looking 3d representation of an orange, apple or banana? No.. it's just there, who cares. All this hype is computer junkie mania.
Paul