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 am not sure that 3D will play that big of a roll in future interfaces. A need must be created before it will become common place, and history has not been good to 3D technologies. For example the technology to make good 3D movies has been round for 50 or 60 years, holograms for around 40 years. But where are these technologies in terms of popular culture?
IMHO The big advances in 3D may not be in terms of what we will see but what the computer will see. If our computers can watch and recognize our gestures within a 3D field they could use those gestures as queues to what we want them to do. Image a computer noticing that I am looking at a particular window’s title bar and switching its focus to that window (some 35mm SLRs do this already). Then when I say, open, bring to the front, or let me see that, the computer brings that window to the front. A key component to this is that the computer would learn about how I work. Ultimately it could occasionally recognize gestures and complete a command before I have fully formed the command in my head. It would be like having a butler that knows what I want (or need) before I do.