http://www.osnews.com/story/19730/Perceptive_Pixel_s_Magic_Wall_Finds_New_Niche Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:16:47 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?313691 http://osnews.com/thread?313691 Whatever they paid, it seems that it was a great investment. Because of the "Magic Wall" and John King's expertise with it, CNN is now the only channel I watch for election coverage.

I'm sure it won't be too long before large multi-touch devices like these hit the consumer market at reasonable prices. I can't imagine what practical use we would have for them, but I know I'd love to have a few in my house. Sat, 10 May 2008 07:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cb_osn) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?313693 http://osnews.com/thread?313693 I can't imagine what practical use we would have for them

I can't imagine anything that special that it would justify the cost of buying such a device. But something I'd personally love would be to have a big screen on the wall, all my photos, movies and music videos stored there, and to be able to sort all those with my own hands to their proper places. It's just somehow so natural to browse through pictures and arrange them on the screen using your hands. If you wanted to tag them or something, you could bring up a virtual keyboard, stretch it to a size suitable for your fingers and type away You could perhaps also put on some TV channel or some video, stretch is to a smaller size and move to some corner, have it there while arranging to pictures.. That would be a very intuitive way to do those things.

EDIT: I should have watched the video first, they did all the stuff I mentioned here in that So, anyway, it is cool tech and would work wonders as sort of a "living" picture and video album in your livingroom Edited 2008-05-10 07:27 UTC Sat, 10 May 2008 07:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (WereCatf) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?313699 http://osnews.com/thread?313699 On the cheapest side of the alimentary chain, there is an alternative that could do the magic. Wiimote whiteboard anyone?

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/ Sat, 10 May 2008 11:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (eduol) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?313700 http://osnews.com/thread?313700 It would be cheaper, and look better, to have a CGI Op. sitting just out of view manipulating the display from a traditional computer. This way the presenters can focus on their performance, and not have to worry about technical issues. Sat, 10 May 2008 12:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (stestagg) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?313702 http://osnews.com/thread?313702 That's a nice link. Interesting videos. Sat, 10 May 2008 12:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rhyder) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?313713 http://osnews.com/thread?313713 Many times when MS's and Apple's multitouch stuff has been brought up I tried to quote Jeff Han's work on some forums, but it just seemed nobody cared. But thing is, determination and good work gets paid in the end, this way or another. Sat, 10 May 2008 16:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (l3v1) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?313726 http://osnews.com/thread?313726 is a system of one or two screens where either of them can be tilted like a drawing board.

it should remove most worries about work strain from wrists and neck (working on a vertical or horizontal surface). Sat, 10 May 2008 19:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hobgoblin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?313728 http://osnews.com/thread?313728 I saw this on CNN and wasn't sure if it was jeff han's wall. It was cool to see it used in a real application. It's a huge step forward from 'interacting' with a green screen. Also glad to see jeff doing well after all the hard work put in. Sat, 10 May 2008 19:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (codehead78) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?313729 http://osnews.com/thread?313729 That was one impressive video (I'm not easily impressed these days).

And we are still arguing about the merits of command line vs. GUI? ;-) Sat, 10 May 2008 19:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dimosd) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?313775 http://osnews.com/thread?313775 The CNN tittilation is mental masturbation.

It's perfect for the War Room Scenario but in general use it makes Star Trek Next Generation and everything that followed seemed more interesting.

It's re-representing data in a more "hands on" way of not using a mouse, on a big wall.

Greaaaat. Now I can see this being useful for Scientists, specifically climate changes in real-time, geological activities of fault line shifts, etc., but none of that has anything to do with this Big Screen, other than it's a cute way to zoom in and out while in a standing presentation position.

What makes or breaks such displays aren't the Interfaces, but the power of the tools these interfaces are connected with and their intended purposes.

Zooming in and out of National->State->County->City view over and over with Red vs. Blue demographics, repeat and rinse 5,000 times ala CNN gets boring real fast. Sun, 11 May 2008 08:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tyrione) Comments