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Apple's answer to Minority Report
« on: April 07, 2006, 08:07:52 pm »
This is a movie about the technology which Apple has recently patented.

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Re: Apple's answer to Minority Report
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2006, 10:56:33 pm »
That is the most unbelievable thing.
Coming from a video editing and visual effects world, I can see a fake from a mile away. That looks friggin real.
unbelievable. and completely exciting. Ghaw, can you imagine photoshop with that. What fun!
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Re: Apple's answer to Minority Report
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2006, 11:15:32 pm »
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Re: Apple's answer to Minority Report
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2006, 11:24:47 pm »
Why bother having to touch the screen

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Re: Apple's answer to Minority Report
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2006, 10:45:47 am »
useless for viewing porn if both your hands are gonna be occupied  ;D
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Re: Apple's answer to Minority Report
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2006, 06:30:14 pm »
they have one of the projection screen things at the science museum in Nashville. I played with it for a while. Pretty cool. It did not track as well as a picky person would have liked.
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Re: Apple's answer to Minority Report
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2006, 07:15:35 pm »
Thats smurfing awesome
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Re: Apple's answer to Minority Report
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2006, 01:22:21 am »
::shudders::

Pre-crime.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/23/texas.bars.reut/index.html

"The goal, she said, was to detain drunks before they leave a bar and go do something dangerous like drive a car."
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Re: Apple's answer to Minority Report
« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2006, 09:27:56 am »
Nice.  It seems Apple is patenting "multi-touch screens" before the technology is proven
and useful.

The way Han's touchscreen works is by illuminating plexi/lexan with infrared LEDs and
uses a video projector and a camera to create contact points.  It's a neat idea, but not
a neat package as say a CRT/LCD/etc. monitor.   

Anyone with half a brain can discern how useful multi-touch can be.  It's a shame the
process has to be "patented" by big business before somebody makes it useful.


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Re: Apple's answer to Minority Report
« Reply #9 on: April 10, 2006, 12:54:29 pm »
Quote from: coasternuts on April 09, 2006, 09:27:56 am
Nice.  It seems Apple is patenting "multi-touch screens" before the technology is proven and useful.

I think Microsoft's Windows is a good reason for Apple to patent everything they spend time creating.
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Re: Apple's answer to Minority Report
« Reply #10 on: April 10, 2006, 05:27:44 pm »
I think that the fact that they made software demos to show several applications of how useful it is is impressive...I can imagine playing some sort of D&D style game on it and actually casting spells with your hands....It would be pretty fun! I don't think giving up the mouse and keyboard will happen anytime soon though....
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