Microsoft TouchLight 3D screen turns sci-fi into reality

[Bob Crabtree]

Microsoft is promising to bring to market late this year a multi-point, 3D touch-screen technology - TouchLight - reminiscent of the video-communication screens seen in many sci-fi movies.

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[SpawnofSonic]

will be interesting to see and use, sounds good though, i'd like to see it in code development and such applications as well as the obvious

[Elessar_VPR]

Pretty cool, but I can see it being several years before the interface becomes truely useful and then a few more before it becomes more widely used.

[awm]

I hope these systems work well and are not just careful video editing. It will be great when we have a more natural way of interacting with computers, but fighting some system that is making huge numbers of guesses, and getting many of them wrong could be annoying. For me I hope they take their time and get the system to work very reliably and accuratly (and cheeply) before making it a common form of interaction. The last thing we need is a pointing device (if very very glorified) that works like a jumpy touchpad.