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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Slightly ot...
There is another system for artificial vision that requires a much less invasive method.
A 16x16 panel of solenoids is worn like a shirt, so they covered an area of the patients back. Differences in light intensity produced variations of pressure.
After a while, blind people can 'see' using this quite well. Just because sighted people use the optic nerve and visual cortex to process visual information, it does not mean that it's the only way.
The same thing may apply here... The whole point of 3D is to increase the amount of data the computer can communicate to us. Perhaps a touch screen that generated different textures and sensations so you could feel the data?