onwards and upwards.... Its basically a fancy Pinscreen, one of those executive desk toys that allows you to create a rough 3-D model of an object by pressing it into a bed of flattened pins. With inFORM, each of those pins is connected to a motor controlled by a nearby laptop, which can not only move the pins to render digital content physically, but can also register real-life objects interacting with its surface thanks to the sensors of a hacked Microsoft Kinect. Remotely, two people Skyping could physically interact by playing catch, for example, or manipulating an object together, or even slapping high five from across the planet. Another use is to physically manipulate purely digital objects. A 3-D model, for example, can be brought to life with the inFORM, and then manipulated with your hands to adjust, tweak, or even radically transform the digital blueprint. Ten years ago, we had people at Media Lab working on gestural interactions, and now theyre everywhere, from the Microsoft Kinect to the Nintendo Wiimote, says Follmer. Whatever it ends up looking like, the UI of the future wont be made of just pixels, but time and form as well. And that future is only five or ten years away. Its time for designers to start thinking about what that means now. https://youtube/watch?v=ouP9xNujkNo
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 02:32:42 +0000
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