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SuezanneC Baskerville
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07-01-2009 21:51
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtEIrhFE8EQIt would be interesting to see this used with virtual worlds. There's a press release about the beta program at http://www.infocus.com/Company/PressReleases/2009/043009_Liteboard.aspxIt's a video projector and "pointer" technology that allows you move a cursor on the screen to the accuracy of the projector without calibration, apparently appearing to conventional applications running on a pc as regular mouse coordinates.
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DancesWithRobots Soyer
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07-02-2009 06:50
Over the next few years, you'll be shocked at the number of different ways we'll interact with computers. accelerometers (speed and position sensing devices) which used to be prohibitively expensive, are turning up in hobby markets for what I think of as lunch money. Speech to text and voice control has been around for ages and actually seems to work now. YouTube is full of videos of paraplegics working their wheelchairs and robotic arms by thinking about it. Pocket devices are running the same sort of programs that used to be reserved for "real" computers
IMO, the time of mice and keyboards is limited, and, you won't think about the computers that our lives will depend on any more than you think about the electric motor in your toothbrush.
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Darien Caldwell
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07-02-2009 08:48
*Puts on Christmas List*
I've had a projector in my home for many years, mostly for home theatre, but I did try using it for the computer for awhile, with a gyroscopic mouse. The problem was, waving your arm around got very tiring after awhile. I'm wondering if even the simple act of waving a finger around wouldn't result in the same thing.
Mice work pretty well because your arm is supported by the desk, so you don't get as much muscle fatigue. Hmm, there surely must be a solution...
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