Japanese scientists invent soap bubble display (which may solve the substrate problem we had been discussing)
HP patents see-through screens -- thanks to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jjprobert for the link!
HP patents see-through screens -- thanks to
jjprobert for the link!
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...
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'!!
