I want my Stark screens IRL already NOW STAT!!!

[yakalskovich]

That's the thing I mean -- you grab your data on these semi-transparent screens/holograms, manipulate it with your hands, visualise, correlate, pull closer or dismiss...

And no, that's not as utopically futuristic as it looks. Knowing what I do about the advances in Virtual Reality (many of which originate from the bleeding-edge high-tech engineering candyland area in and around Stuttgart that I mentioned), I dare say that we'll get them in five years. Siri already does quite a credible 0.5 version of JARVIS*.

Anyway, I was missing my (potential) Stark screens badly today when I was explaining some data base queries to my soon-to-be ex-boss, and instead of doing it visually and understandably the way Tony does in that picture, I was dividing myself between drawing Set Theory diagrams with pencil and marker(!!), on paper (!!!), alternating that with checking boxes with my computer mouse, on a dreary list -- which even produces more dreary SQL code in the background!!

I sort of whent 'Argh argh argh I want the VR screens from the future now!!!' at my boss, and told him, whatever he does with his business once I am gone ('Après moi, le déluge!'), he's not to ditch the VR related magazine we (soon: they!) have as that's where the future is going.

You know, there I was with my paper and pencil and knowing that that thing there is going to be possible soon -- a very special sort of geeky frustration and high-level first-world complaining...

*That there is so going into the next chapter of 'Bag Of Cats'!!

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[jjprobert]

This is true.

Also consider to account for those fine fellows over in Silicon valley, as well as the Tech City in London. And plenty of other places I'm sure could be mentioned as well.

[yakalskovich]

Oh yes -- Shanghai, for example. They'll solve it somewhere.-

[jjprobert]

Just found this today: http://leapmotion.com/

[yakalskovich]

Thanks!!!

I actually found this the other day (just use Google!translate, I don't seem to get to translate parts of that as I thought I would...):

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/technik-motor/gestensteuerung-fass-mich-nicht-an-11788730.html

Even the graphics in the illustration totally look like the Stark Screen design with all that round data.

[jjprobert]

Hee, yes they do.

Now, time to get back to work on the 'hard light' project.

[yakalskovich]

Definitely. I mean, they're not researching in a vacuum. The result they need to get is right up there on the cinema screen...