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


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Status: offline 		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

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RE: OT microsoft secret project - 6/4/2007 7:23:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		So, when does the WitP interface come out?

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RE: OT microsoft secret project - 6/4/2007 7:49:33 AM   
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RE: OT microsoft secret project - 6/4/2007 9:09:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		You guys are slow.  I heard about that a few days ago in a Usenet group for wargames. 

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RE: OT microsoft secret project - 6/4/2007 9:16:43 AM   
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Status: offline 		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.

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RE: OT microsoft secret project - 6/4/2007 6:02:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		I just had a vision of a whole wall with the complete map of WITP on it...using "touch" to manipulate your units.

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RE: OT microsoft secret project - 6/4/2007 6:55:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hellelluah! That would absolutely ROCK! I'm invisioning a TF orders screen where you can input waypoints.

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RE: OT microsoft secret project - 6/4/2007 7:32:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		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?

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RE: OT microsoft secret project - 6/4/2007 8:07:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		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...

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

 

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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.



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...

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RE: OT microsoft secret project - 6/4/2007 8:18:49 PM   
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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.


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.

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RE: OT microsoft secret project - 6/4/2007 8:24:49 PM   
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RE: OT microsoft secret project - 6/4/2007 9:00:16 PM   
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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.


That's already worked on:




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


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Status: offline 		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.)

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RE: OT microsoft secret project - 6/5/2007 1:33:00 PM   
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ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

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


Of course Great Naval Battles did that 15 years ago.

Bill

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