What ever happened to Virtual Reality ?
so, whatever happened to Virtual Reality, I thought (ten years ago) it would already be big by now but its not, why shouldnt Apple with its current focus on software and user experience do something with virtual reality ?
I know we have QuickTime VR's but they dont really add to user experience in my book.
I know we have QuickTime VR's but they dont really add to user experience in my book.
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Originally posted by T'hain Esh Kelch
There's not many things that could be done to the Finder, to make it more usable in 3D...
Well you could organize your files like a city map. The finder could be a thomas guide.
I like the idea of my programs having personality.
Originally posted by AsLan^
sherlock could actually help you find stuff, and he could have a british accent too.
I like the idea of my programs having personality.
yikes... remember that obnoxious bouncy paperclip in Microsoft Word? i wanted to kill it. i'll take my programs functional, and without personality!!
But on a computer UI, this might be cool. Imagine column view, but instead of being a 'side scroller', it would be like moving 'into' a folder.
[B]The reason people don't want, say, an 'Immersive Halo 3', is because, well, bullets hurt.
Good call.
Originally posted by Placebo
But on a computer UI, this might be cool. Imagine column view, but instead of being a 'side scroller', it would be like moving 'into' a folder.
I agree, anything that could add to user experience is beneficial in my eyes. I like the idea of a virtual community tied to realspace by wifi access points or something like that.
This board would definately be interesting in VR, maybe something like an old roman courtyard scene where new posts are delivered to you on a parchment or something.
If you mean why don't we use stereoscopic specs to navigate our computer's filesystem, well, hopefully the answer is obvious.
Now I guess they should have banned me rather than just shut off posting priviledges, because kickaha and Amorph definitely aren't going to like being called to task when they thought they had it all ignored *cough* *cough* I mean under control. Just a couple o' tools.
Don't worry, as soon as my work resetting my posts is done I'll disappear forever.
Hey, 2D is good, as long as I get the cool gloves Tom had in that movie to operate the computer. 8) And, of course, that huge screen!
Originally posted by 1337_5L4Xx0R
If you mean why don't we use stereoscopic specs to navigate our computer's filesystem, well, hopefully the answer is obvious.
A couple of years ago Sony came out with some glasses that had LCD displays in them, there was one set that you could watch TV on and another (probably higher resolution) that could substitute a computer monitor, I dont see these things advertised anymore so maybe they just didnt work or were too expensive - I think the TV ones were around $1500 and the monitor ones were about $3000.
I also had another idea that would add to user experience - Quicktime previews and movies in a Virtual theatre, this of course would require Virtual specs and could very easily be achieved with technology current today, the only issue is cost. For the more forward thinking this functionality could be added to an ipod like device and solve the problem of people wanting to watch video on their ipod but not on a little 2" screen.
Don't believe me? Then what are people doing more these days: fighting King Zorgan and his mutant android army in real 3D space while wearing stupid glasses OR voting on the final episode of "Who Wants To Give My Stepdad a Handjob?", Wednesdays on ABC. ("EEEK...I, like, hope it's, like, Melanie...she's, you know, all cool and stuff? And I, like, SO love this show? Woo-hoo!" (question marks added for "upspeak" emphasis...)
Sadly, the latter...
Originally posted by spaz
yikes... remember that obnoxious bouncy paperclip in Microsoft Word? i wanted to kill it. i'll take my programs functional, and without personality!!
/OT/ That reminded me of this clip. (Not for the easily offended).
Originally posted by RANSOMED
Man! It would be so cool to have a Photoshop interface like the one Tom Cruise uses in Minority Report to look through the psychic murder videos. Imagine to be able to pull picures and graphics in and out of tha canvas... with your hands!!! No freakin' mouse!
Hey, 2D is good, as long as I get the cool gloves Tom had in that movie to operate the computer. 8) And, of course, that huge screen!
How about without the gloves?
*whistles and walks away*