Touch screen monitors to be obsolete soonish

[glorybound]

MIT is showing its advances in 3D gestural computing with a bi-directional monitor: it senses your hand movements, and then directs the computer to move the 3D model. (Optical sensors are embedded behind the LCD screen.)

A little out there, but I thought I would share.

http://design-construction-technology.nor-son.com/?p=284

[YoyoBoy]

Um, that's nice and all, but what if you want to stop quickly?

[glorybound]

Stop

Hmmm... good question. Maybe if you stop motioning it'll stop moving.

[dbuchhofer]

Interesting take on the "Augmented Reality" type systems.

theres lots of adaptations that look ridiculous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9HMn6bd-v8

and some that are a little closer to what you're saying/reality http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avrbEXN8lzg albeit low budget currently

[rmejia]

Don't know if "soonish", looks like something a decade away, but definitely a glimpse of a possible future interactive environment. Let's see if Apple make it cool and market it