As you all know about Microsoft Surface....Microsoft Sphere is the current R&D product that Microsoft is developing.Multi-touch, Natural interaction are few in the top good features.
Have a look...whats your feedback? is it just for Research? or can it be bought into Retail like Surface was into At&T stores!!
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What's wrong with mapping something to a 3D accelerated sphere on a touch-screen though? I don't understand how you can effectively use a display where you have to walk around it to see the whole thing. Maybe for clubs they can make a new kind of disco ball or something
Who knows, maybe MS is designing this just for marketing like Surface. Plus look! They're innovative! They make crap nobody wants before anyone else! j/k, it may turn out to have some real cool use that nobody has forseen, but yeah count me in the same camp as the other skeptics...
right from the start I was mentally screaming out for a globe application, which I'm glad they did, but it was a wasted opportunity to not demonstrate it zooming in and out too. You can buy globes worth thousands already, there is certainly a market for a fully interactive Google earth on a spherical display unit.
Admittedly there are not a great deal of other applications where a spherical display is perhaps more apt than a flat one, but I'm sure there are some. and as a system for allowing the public to browse information in a museum or similar a globe is a much more...friendly display piece for crowds to walk around.
Also, making a large model the user steps inside (as it's a projected display it would be seen from either side) , multi touch manipulation for a planetarium, excellent.
There's very little that's more intuitive than a globe that you can touch and spin with your finger.
The image viewing application is also very intuitive as you can "throw" pictures around, or zoom in and out, move them, etc.
Although it did make a nice globe.
i bet if this was linux based and/or not a MS product, or a apple product, everybody would scream "I'AM GETTING ONE OF THOSE".
I would love to see this running google earth
and this would be a product for museums and that sort of institutions.
So, just because you cannot see this for use in your homes, doesn't mean it's "useless", "not intuitive", "a waste of resources".
Many of you seems to think that as long as you cannot see any use in a product for yourself, you think it's useless and so on.
Why don't we just stop all development and research, it's all a waste :p
Last edited by Faisal Islam on 01 Aug 2008 - 16:56
Huh?
I'm sure the Iphone-fashion-freaks will love this, but this is a step back for the advanced computer users.
I'm sure the Iphone-fashion-freaks will love this, but this is a step back for the advanced computer users.
who EVER said that this is for your living room?
Is Surface for your living room?
please, write something constructive :p
I'm sure the Iphone-fashion-freaks will love this, but this is a step back for the advanced computer users.
Dude I am a proud owner of an iPhone and I find this stuff useless. maybe a fortune teller might find this useful
Very cool technology.
-Spenser
As some Morphen pointed it out in few blogs above...if this same Sphere had be developed by Apple..and if Steve jobs shows the demo zooming into the upper part of his house...everyone would had said "i wanted it in my home, i can show my house in that iSphere!!"...crazy people!!
The people researching this do not have that remit, nor would they be qualified to chase it. They are IT developer, not medicial ones.
Moreover, who is to say that the use of a 3d scaling technology isn't later used when we have supermegamicroscopes to see inside cells and so on.
Microsoft already donate HUGE sums, as does Bill Gates, to AIDS charities. Moreover, Microsoft have been instrumental in outfitting related research labs with cutting edge technologies.
If it's such a priority to you, what are you currently doing to help the cause?
Don't spout such hogswash!
it should be very clear to everyone than watches the clip that it's a RESEARCH project, and i mean...
what do you really mean by open-sourcey?
it should be very clear to everyone than watches the clip that it's a RESEARCH project, and i mean...
what do you really mean by open-sourcey?
Of course this is not the final product but it's Microsoft, the final product is expected to be much worse than the prototype, everybody knows that.
Give Microsoft a break, they are at least developing something that MIGHT be useful later on in life.
This technology opens the way for many cool things down the road. Come on multitouch wall! I'll never have to hang another picture frame again!
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hehe this thing looks kinda neat. useful for a world map?
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This is pretty much the best quote from this thread. I couldn't stop laughing. Oh, what a world, what a world.
This is one of the more exciting advances in technology in a while. Surface and Sphere's underlying mechanics are so freakin' revolutionary it boggles the mind. You want Star Trek technology? You want holodecks? Of course you do! Where the hell do you think it will come from?
And for you gamers - you are absolutely going to kill for the advanced UIs that will be made possible through this.
Can you say Life-Sized 3D Holographic Interface?
Damn, this is cool.
For the immediate future, I'd like an RTS game that worked like this:
http://www.stargatecaps.com/sga/s3/315/html/thegame0665.html
It could be used in education and security scenarios, but I don't see it in a home environment.
I barely tolerate it. I have AdBlock Plus to remove ads and such. But your going way offtopic dude.
The people that are saying this is useless are the same people that said "Who would ever need two moniters.".
This is very useful. Unmanned Information Kiosk, Group therapy, (as mentioned before schools),
Do I see it ever being used? No. This is r&d they are working on something much bigger and this is just a step
Also the R&D is not developing application for a spherical display they are studying touch-sensitive applications. They said themselves that they were researching handling multiple responses in a spherical environment.
Everyone knows this is how they would want the bridge control interface on a space shuttle to work (being inside the sphere, at least). :3
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