Is This The Next Step?
Where Computer Interfaces Are Going : 3D Beyond Games is a very cool little article about the future of Development. It’s been Slashdotted.
I’m reading this, and I’m thinking … this is pretty cool. Then the first reality check hits home. When would this be useful? Using 3d within a System. You’d have bits in 2d and 3d. Some would combine I’m sure.
But are we talking about Development or the end product? Maybe both. Imagine Developing … you write code in 2d, but then view the procedural structure in 3d. You’d move around the database in 3d, organising tables etc.
Then you have the actual System.
The problem with developing Systems in 3d is, noone really knows how it would work. Has anyone released an Accounting System that successfully amalgamates 2d and 3d interfaces? It hasn’t been done. It’s very, very early days.
But that isn’t going to stop me thinking about this. Maybe even experimenting. I’ve done some hard labour with DirectX … there’s plenty of open-source engines to use.
And then, at the end of the article, I find out that Tristan is working on something called …
It’s going to be a big hurdle to get over. The actual mindset of work vs play. The 3D engine is so caught up in Gaming, and transferring this technology across into the Business world will take something special. But I think it’s going to happen, it should happen.
Stu,
Thanks!
Not so much for the link (which is certainly appreciated), but rather for having many of the same opinions… including your thoughts on ideas and the importance of exploring them.
Anyways, slashdot scares me… so I thought I’d post here instead. Good luck with your experiments. btw, I’m not affiliated with the site that got slashdotted…. they just picked up the article that I made available. I was as dismayed as everyone else at the number of popups and ads and junk.
http://www.tactile3d.com/tac.php?opt=overview&subopt=docs
has the article without the distractions.
cheers.
Comment by tristan — December 20, 2005 @ 11:55 pm
Tristan … whoot! Thanks for posting. And for the non-ads article. The great big cloud of Slashdotters are pretty ruthless. That was one of the biggest complaints I read about, the ads etc. I myself aren’t as picky, and got through that stuff to the meat, and then visited your site. Very nice btw.
Keep going with Tactile, it’s an awesome looking product, with a great future …
Comment by Stu — December 21, 2005 @ 8:31 am