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Former iAd Chief Andy Miller Joins 3D Motion Control Company Leap Motion
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What? your not holding anything... It doesn't take much effort to swipe your hand and if it does you must have a problem. Which in case your right you will need a mouse. You rest your elbows on your desk or table put your hand up and move your fingers. Try it, your not going to get tired.
No, he was right before. Spot on in fact
In what way ? Last I checked, iOS devices were computers, they just happen to run iOS instead of OS X or Windows or AIX or HP-UX or whatever else OS out there.
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Actually, I think FingerWorks technology is what you find in the multitouch trackpads on Macs.
And maybe Tom Sawyer can talk you into painting a fence? But most kids these days are too soft for that trick.
They could simply refuse to sell - preferring the prospects of selling to nearly 100% of computer users rather than 5%.
This is like the anti-iAd. It's fun and exciting and cutting edge, everything that working with iAd is not. Congrats to him!
An INTERESTING take is on where this technology can go and where its already used in.
Smartphones:
Sony Xperia ... i forget the model but it was introduced as a low end unit just a few months ago ... hovering just above the screen for navigation and selection. Odd but for those with dexterity challenges (think highly developed MS cases, or someone close to being a full paraplegic this can go miles).
Tablets ... like above.
Robots: fine control!!! handling dangerous materials in closed or even open environments. Think of a Bomb-Robot handling a highly explosive bomb that cannot be physically moved else detination but can be disassembled to be de-activated, hmmm. Just like a high-tech James Bond movie lol. but seriously ... consider that.
Surgeries, etc.
I think this would turn touch or non-touch gaming on its head ... MORE than MS's XBox system can do now.
The Magic Trackpad is pretty much a wireless, more aesthetically pleasing iGesture Pad.
I see the same problem with this as I see with Kinect or Google Glasses. You look like a complete douche nozzle using it.
I'm sure there will be a small group of people out there who won't mind waving their hands in the air like they're playing a game of charades but I suspect the majority are just fine with mouse and keyboard.
In what ways is this better than the available tools, beyond looking like something from a sci-fi flick? It's a solution in search of a problem.
I'm sure there will be a small group of people out there who won't mind waving their hands in the air like they're playing a game of charades but I suspect the majority are just fine with mouse and keyboard.
In what ways is this better than the available tools, beyond looking like something from a sci-fi flick? It's a solution in search of a problem.
Why Macs?
Why is everyone so hung up on this being a technology that would be useless on desktop Macs? I fully agree - I don't think that this is a computer thing at all. I'd like to see this as the missing link that what was Steve Jobs' epiphany when he finally 'cracked' the whole TV thing. As a TV control, this thing is awesome. No remote to lose, no having to take your eye off the screen to look at touch-screen displays - with an über-cool, über-usable interface, from the LayZBoy, this thing is going to rock! I just hope that this isn't stealing the Jobs thunder in any way - seriously cool stuff...
Why is everyone so hung up on this being a technology that would be useless on desktop Macs? I fully agree - I don't think that this is a computer thing at all. I'd like to see this as the missing link that what was Steve Jobs' epiphany when he finally 'cracked' the whole TV thing. As a TV control, this thing is awesome. No remote to lose, no having to take your eye off the screen to look at touch-screen displays - with an über-cool, über-usable interface, from the LayZBoy, this thing is going to rock! I just hope that this isn't stealing the Jobs thunder in any way - seriously cool stuff...
I just realised the potential of the thing if you put it onto of a magic trackpad. Trackpad in 3d so to speak. And presentational for those who need it too. Directed down against the pad so to speak for other ways of interacting with it on a table surface (picking up, pinching, flipping etc).
Fixed that there for you.
There's nothing dumb about iOS. It runs its own applications locally vs a real dumb terminal would is just a deported display for remote applications over a network protocol like X11, IBM TN3270, Citrix ICA/Microsoft RDP, NX or any other such thin client computing solution.
But of course, you know this right, you were just hyperboling ?
It's called 'OS X' not 'Mac OS X'
What I meant by iOS being 'dumb' is that it's dumb compared to a 'proper computer', in the sense that:
- you have no filesystem access
- you cant choose where you store items
- you cant modify files as you wish
- you cant install 3rd party content without it coming from the App Store
- you cant distribute your own applications independently, and instead must pay Apple to do it for you
- you cant add 3rd party peripherals or their drivers
- you cant control what OS runs on your hardware without voiding your warranty.
Obviously this post will come across as me bitching about Apple, but I can assure you that is not the case. I'm just telling you my definition of 'dumb device'. These are the things that make iOS (and to a lesser extent, Android) a 'dumb device'. It's limited to what Apple want you to be able to do. As we all know very well, Apple are very, very restrictive about what they want you to be able to do on a device. The lack of basic features in pretty much every core product is evidence of this (e.g SD card support, USB3 taking all this time to make it into macs, etc).
Obviously this does have its benefits - less security issues, complete control over the ecosystem, etc. But it does cause more issues and whilst iOS continues to be so locked down, it will never become a real platform that could eventually be used on laptops and desktops.
It's called 'OS X' not 'Mac OS X'
Not for Snow Leopard users.
And again, you need to change your word, because "dumb" is already used in the jargon to refer to dumb terminals used in thin client computing. It refers to the fact that the terminal only provides display and input, while all processing and logic is done on the remote side, by a server, which is quite not the case with iOS devices. The logic is run locally, along with the display, input and everything else. The devices can be used offline 100%.
Anyway, none of those things remove the fact that iOS devices are computers still (same as Android devices or BlackBerry or Windows Phone devices). They are far from being dumb, are fully programmable, and just have a new concept of multiple media based databases rather than a file browser (what you refer to is not filesystem access, it's file browsing. The OS very much exposes the filesystem to applications through NSFileManager and technically, I could write a "file browser" limited to the jail my app has access to). In fact, I'd argue the "Libraries" browsing concept is much better for the average user than the old "here's a bunch of files, sort them, organise them and find them" that we had with file browsers.
Like I said, you're hyperboling. And this might look like I'm defending Apple, but you know me, I'm not. Just pointing out the facts.
Also, "proper computer" here means a laptop/desktop. Proper computers aren't so limited to have to do all those things at all. Some don't even have filesystems at all, relying on volatile memory for storage.
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