The basic technology has already been developed for year, just never implemented in common product or possession.
They are gearing up for sexy robots in 2040, and you won't be complaining THEN.
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Beyond Multi-Touch: Voice, Gaze, Facial Expression Recognition
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The basic technology has already been developed for year, just never implemented in common product or possession.
They are gearing up for sexy robots in 2040, and you won't be complaining THEN.
You do realize that Apple's had voice recognition built-in for about fifteen years, right? It won't do dictation but it will allow the user to interact with many aspects of the system and doesn't require any training. As to its effectivness, well, it could be better but if one's in a quiet environment it works fairly well (and always has IMO).
interesting advancements. yes creepy. but computers are becoming ingrained into life everywhere. and i do mean everywhere.
something like minority report where there are tailored ads etc could certainly happen. a smaller form of those computers used could happen too. but would still need to require less wide and flourishing gestures. but i could see it.
long way off all of this is though.
something like minority report where there are tailored ads etc could certainly happen. a smaller form of those computers used could happen too. but would still need to require less wide and flourishing gestures. but i could see it.
long way off all of this is though.
This has been my answer to those who say "We don't need 8 (or 16) core computers." Yes we will if the computer is to look at your face and fingers with a webcam and listen to voice commands all at once. Just doing that is far more compute intensive then rendering HD video.
Right, but it's been even more than 15 years -- IIRC voice commands first appeared circa 1991. It worked pretty well, but who really found any use for it?
This is all very interesting stuff, reinventing the user interface, and I'd hope and expect Apple to be on the forefront of these developments. But I suspect we're a long way from any real revolutions on this front. It's got to work 100% of the time or it won't replace the antique keyboard and mouse.
There are two parts to this technology:
1. Making it work at all
1. Making it work at all
Apple or other companies will likely succeed in making most or all of these input techniques work. The question is how far they can go in what time frame.
2. Making it work for usI'd expect Apple, more than other software development firms, to be able to find practical, useful, and elegant ways to implement and adapt this technology into an operating system and applications on our desktop computers, notebook computers, tablets, perhipherals, media players, phones, and whatever else we buy from them.
Couldn't agree more.
How annoying is it going to be when you tell your computer to do something with your mouse, but the gaze detection software fails to register you looking at it. The machine would ignore your command to open a document or whatever and just hang out in standby mode. That's when the anger detection software better kick in to brace the system's hardware for impact.
How much system resources will these technologies be consuming to essentially do what we can fairly easily accomplish with a mouse and keyboard? Much of this strikes me as a solution looking for a problem; that said, I do think it's good that Apple is working hard at trying to dream up new ideas.
Yep, I get "tailored" ads all the time on places like Facebook, and it freaks me out! Often I'm like "how the hell does Facebook know I'd be interested in that?!?" -- and then my "oh, duh" moment of realization kicks in, and I realize it's due to what info I've written about myself. I'm often amazed on how smart it works too. For example, I get gay-related ads sometimes -- not because there's anything in my profile about being gay, but simply because I'm linked in a relationship with another same-sex Facebook user. I wonder how deep it goes sometimes. It's definitely creepy...
Couldn't agree more.
How annoying is it going to be when you tell your computer to do something with your mouse, but the gaze detection software fails to register you looking at it. The machine would ignore your command to open a document or whatever and just hang out in standby mode. That's when the anger detection software better kick in to brace the system's hardware for impact.
Why would it use gaze detection when the mouse is giving input? The mouse is a pointer device. Gaze detection would work for things like multi-touch rotation where there is no pointer.
Personally, I think gaze detection is pretty cool.
In fact, all these are cool and worth exploring. Some of them seem iffy, but why not research them? Apple won't use some concepts, and the best ones will be incorporated.
Care to elaborate why?
Edit: Never mind. I didn't realize which post you were replying to.
ha ha agreed. Also, what happens when you flip it off because it's REALLY pissing you off? "Goodbye! Come back when you calm down..."
Also agreed with the speaking to the computer. It gets annoying, kinda awkward, and overall, not really worth it. It could have its uses, but personally, whilst the computer is still an inanimate machine and not some robot hellbent on ripping out my spleen, I would rather input through touch and typing, not carrying on a conversation with the fool thing.
Agreed. When I'm on the computer, I want to type. I want to do everything manual. Are we too lazy for that now?
Amongst everything else. I don't like it. Stick with touch-screens.
Microsoft has already been working on this
Microsoft has been incorporating these technologies into the Zune phone and coffee table. A fist print mashed on the control surface indicates the user is frustrated with the Vista operating system. A helpful cartoon character would appear and convince the user that the frustration is not Microsoft's fault. Facial expression recognition senses the user is now even more angry, soothing music automatically plays and once the user is in a blissful state, it asks the user if they would like to purchase the music they're listening to.
Microsoft has been incorporating these technologies into the Zune phone and coffee table. A fist print mashed on the control surface indicates the user is frustrated with the Vista operating system. A helpful cartoon character would appear and convince the user that the frustration is not Microsoft's fault. Facial expression recognition senses the user is now even more angry, soothing music automatically plays and once the user is in a blissful state, it asks the user if they would like to purchase the music they're listening to.
Facial recognition? It's bad enough they know I'm looking at porn - now they want to know what kind of porn?
Absolutely. Many years ago I got too lazy to type at a command prompt. Fortunately Apple came out a with a computer that made that unnecessary. I am looking forward to becoming even lazier in the future.
Wow. That is WAY cool.
It seems like all of the James Bond toys are becoming real!
Do any of you believe that the creator of the James Bond gadgets was inspiration for some of these things? Or any other fiction device from the past?
I just think all of this is really neat. I can already see, with this, how computing might be in the next 3-5 years, and I'm SO hoping that I get to experience all of that.
This is going to change the way people use computers forever. I can't imagine when I'm 60! (I'm 15 now).
Go Apple! I love you!
It seems like all of the James Bond toys are becoming real!
Do any of you believe that the creator of the James Bond gadgets was inspiration for some of these things? Or any other fiction device from the past?
I just think all of this is really neat. I can already see, with this, how computing might be in the next 3-5 years, and I'm SO hoping that I get to experience all of that.
This is going to change the way people use computers forever. I can't imagine when I'm 60! (I'm 15 now).
Go Apple! I love you!
Im thinking also voice recognition is something they might be able to add to existing and older handsets, via firmware updates, which would be cool.
lol mate - that's a pretty big tell-tale. You might as well have it in neon.
I ended up removing my "single" status because all the "tailored" adds were started to p!ss me off. I mean can you imagine how little work you'd get done on the net if every banner add was actually interesting? I'm close to ADHD as it is.