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Obscura Digital Demos "Minority Report"-Like Display

Posted by kdawson on from the grabbing-holograms dept.

Barence and other readers sent along word of a demonstration by Obscura Digital of a new technology it's dubbed a multi-touch hologram — reminiscent of the display in Minority Report. The demonstration shows a man interacting with holographic images projected before him, moving them around and resizing them. It's only sort of like the Minority Report display, which used hand movements to control elements on a screen. Earlier, Obscura had demoed another take on the Spielbergian technology, a multi-touch wall.

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  1. Cool, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Somehow, doesn't seem as efficient as alt-tabbing.

  2. ok.. by peachstealingmonkeys · · Score: 5, Insightful

    why is it that every single demo of these multi-touch technologies involve moving/rotating/resizing f-ing pictures or photographs? What am I, a private eye looking for f-ing clues? For christ's sake, show me some some practical applications, gawdammit..

  3. Re:One step closer to my holographic dream by ArsonSmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    But not in our dreams. No sir.

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