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CobraAus -> OT microsoft secret project (6/4/2007 6:11:01 AM)

My daughter just sent this to me its bloody amazing when you think of the of what can be possible in a couple of years

go to link the pick your jaw up off the floor

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid271552687/bctid933742930

Cobra aus



Cpt Sherwood -> RE: OT microsoft secret project (6/4/2007 7:23:38 AM)

So, when does the WitP interface come out? [:D]



FeurerKrieg -> RE: OT microsoft secret project (6/4/2007 7:49:33 AM)

[:D]



dtravel -> RE: OT microsoft secret project (6/4/2007 9:09:50 AM)

You guys are slow.  I heard about that a few days ago in a Usenet group for wargames.  [:'(]



wdolson -> RE: OT microsoft secret project (6/4/2007 9:16:43 AM)

I heard about this the other day.  The technology is interesting, though I can see some possible pitfalls.  It has many stengths in manipulating images, though it wouldn't be great for doing text relating things like using a word processor.  Ergonomically the demo models would be hell on your back after a while.  Eventually the consumer model may end up being something like a drafting table with a slanted surface.

With Windows running in your desk, it gives a whole new meaning to crashing your desktop.

Bill



Charbroiled -> RE: OT microsoft secret project (6/4/2007 6:02:40 PM)

I just had a vision of a whole wall with the complete map of WITP on it...using "touch" to manipulate your units.[X(]



niceguy2005 -> RE: OT microsoft secret project (6/4/2007 6:55:19 PM)

Hellelluah! That would absolutely ROCK! I'm invisioning a TF orders screen where you can input waypoints. [:D]



qgaliana -> RE: OT microsoft secret project (6/4/2007 7:32:20 PM)

Dunno - my screen is filthy as it is, and I'm not even trying to poke it with fingers. How the frutz am I supposed to pop open a bag of doritos while I play?



bradfordkay -> RE: OT microsoft secret project (6/4/2007 8:07:34 PM)

I can also picture quite a few smashed screens when a PBEM turn goes bad... Now it's usually the mouse or the keyboard that suffers - relatively inexpensive compared to what one of those desktops will cost the frustrated gamer...



AmiralLaurent -> RE: OT microsoft secret project (6/4/2007 8:08:03 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Charbroiled

I just had a vision of a whole wall with the complete map of WITP on it...using "touch" to manipulate your units.[X(]



Not for WITP, to manipulate you units you will have to use "touch touch touch touch" and keep a finger on the left upper corner and slide with the foot at the bottom...

I think before games like WITP (who has a small public) will use such technology, we will be used to command computers by words rather than by touch...



panda124c -> RE: OT microsoft secret project (6/4/2007 8:18:49 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Charbroiled

I just had a vision of a whole wall with the complete map of WITP on it...using "touch" to manipulate your units.[X(]


That is soooo low tech, what is needed is laser pointers instead of touch screens. [:-]
Then you can sit in your Lazy Boy Lounge chair and direct you fleets. [&o]



panda124c -> RE: OT microsoft secret project (6/4/2007 8:24:49 PM)

I do hope they put cup holders in the table, you don't want to have a beer spill and an entire Naval Task force become drunk and invade the wrong island. Wait a minute that aready happens.. [:D]



Woos -> RE: OT microsoft secret project (6/4/2007 9:00:16 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: pbea
That is soooo low tech, what is needed is laser pointers instead of touch screens. [:-]
Then you can sit in your Lazy Boy Lounge chair and direct you fleets. [&o]


That's already worked on:

[image]local://upfiles/16906/4DBFF1768250463ABF46F56BC13540AC.jpg[/image]



dtravel -> RE: OT microsoft secret project (6/4/2007 10:30:09 PM)

Touch screens have been around for a while.  I worked with one back about 10 years ago.  It just treats the single point of contact as a mouse basically.  The big problem I see with using this new tabletop interface is that the software has to be written to allow and handle the multi-point input.  WiTP would have to be re-written from the ground up to work that way.  (And if they're going to do that there are a lot of other things that would need to be done first.)



wdolson -> RE: OT microsoft secret project (6/5/2007 1:33:00 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

Hellelluah! That would absolutely ROCK! I'm invisioning a TF orders screen where you can input waypoints. [:D]


Of course Great Naval Battles did that 15 years ago.

Bill



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