News - Microsoft shows off prototype user interface

[HEXUS]

The company that once predicted the demise of the keyboard and mouse shows off new interaction technologies.

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[shaithis]

The screen itself will never replace a keyboard.....only reliable voice reconition will....and it is starting to get there.

[Leki]

sure I'm going to do my First person shooter gaming on a touch screen. lol

MS = retarded

mouse and keyboard FTW

[HW_90]

that GUI looks like a mix between Apple's and hulu desktops.

[Biscuit]

i ike the idea but can you imagine sat around in cubicle world talking to your computer... no freakin way.

[Whiternoise]

I tried a surface table a couple of days ago (there's one in the engineering department at uni).

It's fancy, but not amazing. The phone application is useless unless you have their software on your phone - so you can't just invite friends round to share photos. Some of the physics demos are pretty cool as is the one that shows you what it think is interacting with the table (it can recognise a lot of points!).

Otherwise photos get boring quite fast and aren't that easy to manipulate without practice.

It's a cool tech demo, but ultimately it's not going to replace consumer hardware any time soon.

[TooNice]

Originally Posted by Biscuit

i ike the idea but can you imagine sat around in cubicle world talking to your computer... no freakin way.

Sounds like the (crappy) movie Gamer.

Maybe in 200 years time, people would be surprised that not every house came with a computer cubicle "back in the 21st century"

Still, while I wouldn't look forward to speaking all the time (and imagine if you lost your voice due to a cold), the ideal user interface would be a plug on the back of my head a la 'Ghost in the Shell'. Too bad I won't live to see such tech.

[kingpotnoodle]

Originally Posted by Leki

sure I'm going to do my First person shooter gaming on a touch screen. lol

MS = retarded

mouse and keyboard FTW

50 years ago people would have scoffed at the idea of virtual worlds where you run around with guns and pretend to be a hard-ass elite soldier whilst sat at your desk... now we have FPSs... there will be something better than a mouse and keys, it might not be touch screens but there is definitly something!

I personally dislike touch, I hate dirty screens... I want a glove or something that I just wave in the air - these are already coming with gyro mice etc, but are way way to expensive... If I could think instead of typing typing and/or issue voice commands when it was suitable then great ("computer, fire up car i'm off to work"). I'm sure all this will come in time, and mouse and keys will seem as backward as punch cards and 5" floppy disks.