Friday, April 10

The Office: Virtual Workspaces On The Fringe of Physicality

The virtual desktop's recent foray into the physical realm with BumpTop has merit (otherwise it probably wouldn't have made it to the TED stage), but still a few years to go. The 3D metaphor of your physical desktop takes it to some unnecessary extremes such as an overabundance of flashy gestures foreign to even the contemporary user experience - this will require a paradigm shift that is challenging on several levels, nevertheless feasible. It merits an applause for incorporating a physics model that includes gravity, velocity, mass, and the like. For other features, see the video.

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