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Mind-Blowing Interfaces On Display At SIGGRAPH 2009

Posted by Soulskill on from the closing-in-on-that-holodeck dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Tech Review has a roundup of some cool, experimental new interfaces being shown at SIGGRAPH 2009, underway in New Orleans this week. They include an amazing 'touchable holograph' display, developed by a team in Japan, which uses an ultrasound device to simulate the sense of touch as the user grasps objects shown in 3D. The other ideas on display are Augmented Reality for Ordinary Toys, Hyper-Realistic Virtual Reality, 3D Teleconferencing and Scratchable Input Devices. If this is the future of computers, sign me up." The conference has also seen the release of OpenGL 3.2 by the Khronos Group.

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  1. ultrasound... by clone53421 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, you can actually feel something when you touch the hologram?

    3-D PORN.

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    1. Re:ultrasound... by Wrath0fb0b · · Score: 4, Funny

      So, you can actually feel something when you touch the hologram?
      3-D PORN.

      Ahem, they said mind blowing ...

    2. Re:ultrasound... by hoggoth · · Score: 3, Funny

      As soon as I get my hands on an API.

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    3. Re:ultrasound... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Please state the nature of the medical emergency.

    4. Re:ultrasound... by Tetsujin · · Score: 5, Funny

      As soon as I get my hands on an API.

      And some Japanese teenage girls... ...You know what? Forget the API.

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  2. Touchable Hologram? by imakemusic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Rimmer will be delighted!

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    1. Re:Touchable Hologram? by Skuld-Chan · · Score: 4, Funny

      puncture repair kit on standby...

  3. Re:I'm a PC.... by clone53421 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who cares?

    By the way, Macs are Personal Computers too.

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  4. mind-blowing by erbbysam · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't really want a display that will cause an explosion in my mind, I'm kinda attached to it...

  5. Re:I'm a PC.... by Tekfactory · · Score: 5, Funny

    You take that back!

  6. 3-D STD . . . by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, you can actually feel something when you touch the hologram?

    3-D PORN.

    . . . just hope that you can't catch something when you touch . . .

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  7. Holodeck by gurps_npc · · Score: 5, Funny

    As we all should know from STNG, the 3d touchable hologram is probably the most dangerous entertainment system ever created. The doors never let you out, the holographic characters become sentient, the safety protocals NEVER work and it opens a rift up to places where holographic characters evolved naturally, so they promptly invade. STOP NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!

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  8. I see where this is going by Em+Emalb · · Score: 3, Funny

    First, they'll set this up on PCs at home. Then it'll be laptops. Then, netbooks.

    The next thing you know, you're gonna have to dodge a frigging mindfield of idiots walking around having orgasms (cmon, you KNOW this thing is gonna be used for porn) because wearable computers takes off.

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    1. Re:I see where this is going by Mikkeles · · Score: 3, Funny

      'The next thing you know, you're gonna have to dodge a frigging mindfield of idiots walking around having orgasms (cmon, you KNOW this thing is gonna be used for porn) because wearable computers takes off.'

      You say that like it's a bad thing!

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    2. Re:I see where this is going by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      The new Zune - Squirting just got easier!

  9. Re:Augmented reality by ColdWetDog · · Score: 3, Funny

    The easiest and simplest use for augmented reality would be to label the real world ...

    Walking down the street -

    "Single"
    "Married"
    "Single with Facebook Profile"
    "Malda's GF - don't touch"

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  10. Re:Augmented reality by Tetsujin · · Score: 4, Funny

    The easiest and simplest use for augmented reality would be to label the real world ...

    Walking down the street -

    "Single"

    "Married"

    "Single with Facebook Profile"

    "Malda's GF - don't touch"

    And don't forget...

    "Jailbait"
    "Psycho"
    "Trap"

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  11. Finally a Man's interface by Nkwe · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can scratch my butt or something else to make stuff happen? Awesome!

  12. Re:The scratch interface could be a problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Or you get fired and they spend 20 or 30 minutes pushing out new images and another 10 to restore backups of documents...

    You must be a fucking blast at parties.

  13. Re:TV screens still have a long way to go by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 2, Funny

    This LED-backlit LCD [amazon.com] supposed has a five-million-to-one contrast ratio.

    Mod me (-1, Obvious), but marketing people and display scientists use different numerical systems. The latter use some carefully calibrated scales and test gear, the former uses blatant lies.

    That Samsung may represent the best of LCD, but I'll bet $5 that it's not really 5x10^6 shades on the scale.

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