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Apple Multi-Touch Display?

rikers_mailbox said:
Why have I never seen that before? And what is it from?
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Until 1997, Apple had a division called the Advanced Technology Group that worked on R&D, not necessarily product-specific like they seem to prefer now. That clip was a promotional thingy to show the kinds of things they wanted to accomplish. Some of their stuff like Inkwell and voice recognition did turn up in current day products.
 
iMeowbot said:
Until 1997, Apple had a division called the Advanced Technology Group that worked on R&D, not necessarily product-specific like they seem to prefer now. That clip was a promotional thingy to show the kinds of things they wanted to accomplish. Some of their stuff like Inkwell and voice recognition did turn up in current day products.
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To any apple reps out there: If you need a chemist to design crazy stuff like this my email address is listed in my profile. I specialize in physical inorganic. I should have my phd in 6.5 years so tell me what to specifically get it in.... 😉
 
It's a cool idea, especially if you think in terms of new tech like LED, instead of old tech like LCD.

Oh and one bonus the solid bit of the screen is on the outside to provide total internal reflection, so it could be super scratch proof.

An iMac with something like this could look like a completely sealed white slab when turned off.
 
That screen would be insanely cool as some sort of rehabilitation device for people with physical or mental damage.
 
I was just using the term Frustrated Total Internal Reflection earlier today to describe my state of mind!
 
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That video could easily be related to the ones in use at the McDonalds in downtown Chicago, the picture above this is from my trip there last year.

The patterns change and the display is projector based not Plasma or Liquid Crystal.
 
jer2eydevil88 said:
The patterns change and the display is projector based not Plasma or Liquid Crystal.
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According to Reactrix, the maker, the display is an LCD projector. Their sensing is via infrared (heat from the hands).
 
hello minority report. tom cruise, et al.. who knew??

as a fanboy gfx artist, ive often been frustrated at the pace/limitations of my mouse. seems like full(er) integration here. i'll take two.

we are borg...resistance is futile.
 
jer2eydevil88 said:
That video could easily be related to the ones in use at the McDonalds in downtown Chicago, the picture above this is from my trip there last year.

The patterns change and the display is projector based not Plasma or Liquid Crystal.
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They have something like that at the Metreon in San Francisco. It's like a pro version of the eyeToy.
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I saw a demonstration of this technology at last years SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles. The demonstration was quite impressive, but it was a Microsoft project, not an Apple one. At the time, the screen was the most expensive element ($20,000 if memory serves) because it was capable of being projected on while still be mostly transparent for the camera mounted behind. It seems to me that Apple is more interested in touch sensitive displays. Maybe the lemur is a more appropriate comparison to what appears to be their trend in development (lemur overview).
 
Here is what I posted concerning the orginal story:

Anyone want to play connect the rumors
1. Big announcement not ready for SF
2. Large Screen something
3. Patent with 'camera' embedded in screen
4. Pro apps (aperature/final cut) (did anyone notice the nice light table effects in video
5. Gesture

This leads me to the idea of a new approach for interactive professional applications. Just stand over the screen and let your fingers do the talking. Who needs a keyboard. Now as the the original rumors for the 40-50 monitor suggested think bigger. Now this would rock and cement Apples place in any design/production studio.

I still think this is a viable option. Just think of the appeal of standing over a large monitor and moving the pictures just like on a real light table. Also after watching the video again I noticed they had some video editing segments in there also. Now if the applications they demonstrated don't scream apple, then what does?
 
Theres a few interesting uses shown in that video, I could see photo collections being manipulated and what looks like a screensaver or as one user said, an iTunes visuliser. Sound's very macintosh, I guess this will be implimented some time but not in the near future. It could probably just be a toy for kids to play with at the Apple Store, who knows?
 
The Lemur

Well, I'm just wondering wether anyone here has heard about the "Lemur". It's a multi-touch midi controller with a programmable screen interface. 😱

The makers page is www.jazzmutant.com

I just wonder if they're applying simular techniques as described in this article? At least they're not using a camera...since it's so damn small!!!

Any thoughts?
 
at the moment we are just dressing up and expanding the interface created during the 70s. This is definitely the next step. You would be able to work so much faster and more intuitively its unreal. Imagine photoshop and so on and where people will push the interface.

Really, really cool
 
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They should have used Aperture in that video so we could see the other "gestures" one might use as they have to wait for photos to blow up and move around on the light board!
 
New iMacs on April 1st! 🙄
BYODKM: Bring your own keyboard, display and mouse. Oh, wait, you don't need those here 😎
 
I loved the video demo and while several applications of this technology come to mind the concept of monitor with a camera integrated would make iSight or any other webcab technology obsolete. The biggest problem I have with the iSight is that users are not looking into each other's eyes - it's a little disorienting. True video chat needs to be an eye-to-eye medium and this technology or a variant of it may just solve that.
 
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