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A No-Touching 3D Computer Interface

Posted by timothy on from the in-development dept.

Justin Schunick points out a video demonstration of a 3D input system which senses the user's hand position, but without requiring the user to touch a controller or wear a trackable position indicator. From the provided description: "Utilizing the theory of electrostatics, we have designed a low-cost human-computer interface device that has the ability to track the position of a user's hand in three dimensions. Physical contact is not required and the user does not need to hold a controller or attach markers to their body. To control the device, the user simply waves their hand above it in the air."

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  1. I'm so sorry... by pHus10n · · Score: 5, Funny

    "...the user simply waves their hand above it in the air..." These are not the droids you're looking for.

    1. Re:I'm so sorry... by Jurily · · Score: 2, Funny

      "...the user simply waves their hand above it in the air..." These are not the droids you're looking for.

      Oh great. So now the Oracle training will include clairvoyance, mind control and lightsaber modules?

    2. Re:I'm so sorry... by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Is Access better?"

      "No...no...no. Quicker, easier, more seductive."

    3. Re:I'm so sorry... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      They're shooting holes in my spreadsheet!

      "I've lost $R$2!!!"

    4. Re:I'm so sorry... by JCSoRocks · · Score: 3, Funny

      A no-touching 3D... interface

      Yeah, it seems like every girl I know has one of those.

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      You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
  2. infuriatingly still by camperdave · · Score: 4, Funny

    For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive--you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure, of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same program.

    From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams.

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  3. No touching by Verdatum · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who else read this headline and immediately thought of Arrested Development?
    "No touching!"

  4. Re:Touch interface fitness required by Hurricane78 · · Score: 2, Funny

    So if they existed in reality, the Jedi would look more like Jabba the Hut?

    There are things, that you just can't unthink...

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    Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
  5. Re:a 2d drawing application for a 3d interface? by Anonymous+Monkey · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because now I can fly my spaceship like those cool ones from Earth Final Conflict. Flailing around like some kind of Idiot lets me do stuff like crash and get captured by hostiles.(And yes, I'm embarrassed to admit I watched that show)

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    We are the Borg...
  6. Re:a 2d drawing application for a 3d interface? by samuX · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nice interface, but how do you select stuff? I mean you can highlight whatever you want, but where's the push/click/activate?

    you just slap or double slap your a** to click or double click :-)