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'!!

Comments

[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...