10 Futuristic User Interfaces

smashingmagazine.com

31 points·jmorin007··9 comments

Some very cool stuff, I'm so happy to be involved in technology. Why on earth do people become lawyers and economists when you can create all this insanely cool stuff?

jDome was awesome, I have kind of lost interest in gaming but this brought it back a little bit. In the presentation you can even enjoy english with a swedish accent :) .

This is cool stuff, but remember Real Artists Ship. :-)

Concur. I think the most impressive thing on here was Fez. Other stuff either looked like it wouldn't be terribly useful to actually use, wasn't real or both.

I saw the futuristic glass and immediately thought Pokedex. I think I hate myself

The eye tracking required for the glass would be pretty slick. It's conceptually simple for a human being to imagine, but you'd need very accurate real-time location information on the device and the head of the onlooking user. I don't think this is feasible right now.

But what functionality would you get out of it that you couldn't get with an iPhone real-time video overlay with a set of cross hairs as a cursor? Isn't there a demo already where a couple of Scandinavian guys implemented this? You'd get the same functionality within the limits of the current infrastructure and technology.

Here is another new concept.... http://www.nestedguis.com. Why have one UI when you can have lots? (there are some good videos there)

A combo between jDome and faceAPI would be great for playing Lock On or IL-2

Wow! I can't wait for the future to become the present!

Insert "just not evenly distributed" here.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com