Essentially, they're projecting onto a sheet of specially treated glass sitting in front of the user. The 'multi touch' is probably a 2D grid of laser beams, which are broken when he pushes his hands forward beyond a certain point.
i definitely agree this is a great indication of the future of computing.
i do find it humorous that whenever companies demonstrate these multi touch surfaces they act like we have nothing better to do but sit around and move around our photo libraries, making the pictures bigger and smaller...of course i realize that's just for demonstration purposes, but still.
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HOLY CRAP THAT'S AWESOME
how do they make the hologram?
Essentially, they're projecting onto a sheet of specially treated glass sitting in front of the user. The 'multi touch' is probably a 2D grid of laser beams, which are broken when he pushes his hands forward beyond a certain point.
Obviously they are on a holodeck.
Check out Total Immersion's developments (you can start here: http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=526&doc_id=160536&f_src=flffour ) ... they have some truly amazing stuff. I think they call it 'augmented reality' and it's great.
i definitely agree this is a great indication of the future of computing.
i do find it humorous that whenever companies demonstrate these multi touch surfaces they act like we have nothing better to do but sit around and move around our photo libraries, making the pictures bigger and smaller...of course i realize that's just for demonstration purposes, but still.