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Comment by nchuhoai | Hacker News Reader

Excellent Post. More of that please.

I think some sort of HUD in glasses will be the future. Doesnt take up much space (presumably) and allows for rich gesture interaction (like whats already possible with Kinect)

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Bret Victor has a longer essay from 2006 on user interface design, called "Magic Ink." It's similarly insightful and interesting.

http://worrydream.com/#!/MagicInk

I've submitted a HN story for it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3213535

I <3 the magic ink paper. (It's been on HN several times.)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059496

Kinect is an excellent example of what the author thinks it's wrong with the vision. It provides absolutely no sensory feedback.

I dont think the author thinks kinect is wrong. What he criticizes is that a touch interface we you physically touch something needs to supply tactile feedback.

Kinect however is IMO not bound to the same scrutiny for tactile feedback. If you take the Kinect Sports games, you can pretty much see yourself in the game in 3d, making it really intuitive and very natural to move to the game.

I agree though, the menu navigation in Kinect is horrible.

We've been talking about gloves with accelerometers in them at work, but now that you mention it I expect that has much the same problem as Kinect, though I suppose you could add some feromagnetic material to the gloves and give at least subtle resistance and feedback through electromagnets or something...

Yes. His latest tweet:

>There was a section on Waving Hands In The Air interfaces, but I cut it. (Tho I liked the phrase "nut-punch to your proprioceptive senses".)

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