So while checking the usual tech news this morning, I came across a fabulous collection of pilot videos from Mozilla Labs on their futuristic concept of a web interface known as Aurora. Now although it seems like the desktop is far too cluttered in these videos, it is exciting to realize that one day, we might have a 3-d interface by which we access information - an interface where things can be grouped together on the desktop more visually and also moved around the desktop more intuitively.
This seems to lead back to this incredibly cool demo by Jeff Han of a multi-touch user interface which gives, in my opinion, the best possible way in which one could interact with a 2-dimensional device.
Now, the neat thing about these things is that the world now seems to be in a position to provide the computing capabilities to make full use of these technologies - for instance, there is D-Wave's Orion quantum computer which can recognize images and tell one from another by being able to harness immense amounts of visual data.
Plus, there is this Microsoft-promoted visualization tool called Photosynth, which is able to collate photographs from flickr, tag them with meta-information and club them together to give a panoramic view of the object/place in question.
All this might seem too much like science fiction, but with the rate at which technology is going forward, I wouldn't be surprised if we had something like Aurora in action in another 5 years.
This seems to lead back to this incredibly cool demo by Jeff Han of a multi-touch user interface which gives, in my opinion, the best possible way in which one could interact with a 2-dimensional device.
Now, the neat thing about these things is that the world now seems to be in a position to provide the computing capabilities to make full use of these technologies - for instance, there is D-Wave's Orion quantum computer which can recognize images and tell one from another by being able to harness immense amounts of visual data.
Plus, there is this Microsoft-promoted visualization tool called Photosynth, which is able to collate photographs from flickr, tag them with meta-information and club them together to give a panoramic view of the object/place in question.
All this might seem too much like science fiction, but with the rate at which technology is going forward, I wouldn't be surprised if we had something like Aurora in action in another 5 years.
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