Taking this open-air gesture control further along
its natural progression, by the mid-2020s, we may see the traditional desktop
interface—the trusty keyboard and mouse—slowly replaced by the gesture
interface, in the same style popularized by the movie, Minority Report. In
fact, John Underkoffler, UI researcher, science adviser, and inventor of the
holographic gesture interface scenes from Minority Report.
It is currently working on the real-life version—a technology he refers to as a
human-machine interface spatial operating environment. (He'll probably need to
come up a handy acronym for that.) Using this technology, you will one day sit
or stand in front of a large display and use various hand gestures to command
your computer. It looks really cool (see link above), but as you might guess,
hand gestures might be great for skipping TV channels,
pointing/clicking on links, or designing
three-dimensional models, but they won’t work so well when writing long essays.
That’s why as open-air gesture technology is gradually included into more and
more consumer electronics, it will likely be joined by complementary UI
features like advanced voice command and iris tracking technology. Yes,
the humble, physical keyboard may yet survive into the 2020.
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