Peephole Displays

benh57 writes "A student at Berkeley has come up with a novel approach for navigating small handheld displays. In effect the display is a "peephole" into a much larger information area. You see different parts of the display by moving the handheld around - no more tiny scrollbars. Check out the DiVX movies to see it in action. It even works in 3D!"

Comments

Name..

[grub]

Being that it's similar to looking through a small hole to see a large interior I think they should call it The Speculum

Re:Name..

[gosand]

Being that it's similar to looking through a small hole to see a large interior I think they should call it The Speculum

Or goatse

And the lawsuits are already being filed...

[Motherfucking Shit]

A student at Berkeley has come up with a novel approach for navigating small handheld displays. In effect the display is a "peephole" into a much larger information area.

In other news, the X10 corporation, makers of stealthy spy cameras and ubiquitous web adverts, announced today that they are filing a patent infringement lawsuit against an unnamed Berkeley student. Said the CEO, "peepholes are our market and this is a clear case of infringement!"

Game Controllers

[Devil Ducky]

I''ve been using a similar style for years. I can't even play a game without moving the controller wildly about while playing a game.

There's no convincing me that moving the controller to the right doesn't help the car turn faster in GT3. Or that shaking it up and down while holding the X button so hard my fingers change colors doesn't help it with acceleration on the straight away.

Re:Nice concept

[The Fun Guy]

"...touch sensitive sides...stroke the side...I enjoy the peephole"

They say that porn drives technological innovation in information distribution technologies. This gives a whole new meaning to the term "peep show".

I can't imagine I'm going to get first post on this.

Would make for a good game

[DrSkwid]

Gaffer/duct tape a nice colour ipaq on your face an
et violá : virtual reality

Karate(TM)

[karlandtanya]

You could use the gyros (or whatever they use) in this device to detect orientation.

And you could use GPS to detect precision.

Then you could use a very fast wireless link to connect to a collection of high resolution earth images.

So, if you held the device in front of you and looked at it, you could see exactly what you'd see if your hand was empty.

PHBs should be able to buy this "empty-hand" device for $2500.00 in two years; the rest of will get it for $99.99 at Wal-Mart in five.

Re:Nice concept

[Elwood P Dowd]

They could require the use of an earbud headphone. And the POV could be relative to the headphone. Then you could put a button on the PDA that recenters the display if things get out of whack. Seems like that would perfectly deal with the jitter issue. Like you say, you'd need fast updates on the screen.

Of course, I don't want a PDA until they can draw on my iris with lasers. I want a 50" display that fits in the palm of my hand, and can be used to permanently blind my enemy in tactical combat.