This video of products-from-ten-years-in-the-future is pretty darn cool. Unfortunately it's all hypothesized by Microsoft Office Labs, meaning if these things actually become reality, they're going to be a serious pain in the neck to use.
Video: Future Vision Montage
via i started something
Anyone know what sort of software is used to composite the interface animation and the video? I've heard of people using Mocha with After Effects? - This looks super smooth though - reflections and everything! any ideas?
Nice ideas. Nice to have the big company spend money to create some concepts like that for inspiration. Ttking shots at Microsoft is a tired theme. You are either small or you are big, get over it. If your favorite other company has a vision that they are sharing then post it up and build off it.
My vision of the future is that the display interface is going to be nearly universal. Just as wireless connection is supplied to us in most public places. So will displays and computing be supplied. They can either be e-ink style surface displays, or rgb laser type projections onto surfaces and floors and whatever. The possible device we carry on our person, will either be computing + storage, or a identifier for a universal, computing + storage. Some of the new led pico projectors start to open this window into how this will work, display of information. Walk around the store and have the items on your shopping list projected on the floor in front of you. Electronic sidewalks can be created in high tourist areas of cities. The public/private consideration has to be calculated, information that is private has to be directed only to the viewer. LCD shuttered glasses, polarized direction of light, etc.
Yeah I know guys, I don't even need to make constructive commentary or rely on facts for this one. Microsoft just like...sucks for creating a design based on touchscreens when Surface was so suck. and I mean, they have touchscreens and so does Apple, so that totally makes it an unusable knockoff of an iProduct - like look at those interfaces - little colored bricks versus weird flowy blobs - so the same you could gag me with a spoon!
Sure, it isn't exactly the most useful concept, but there's something to be said for a company that brought us Word 97-2003 trying to turn itself into a visionary company instead of just being content to accept the droves of cube workers who will be using their software for the forseeable future. And yeah, so far Microsoft has been unsuccessful with a lot of hardware - especially the Surface, so let's not get into who's in what camp.
Since this is a forum of designers and design enthusiasts, I was wondering if we could talk about the actual concept interface. Let me start - the idea of being able to get a screengrab and then interact with that content is something I haven't seen before, and I really like it. However, any time we try to map stuff like communications, symptoms, or anything else that involves bulleted lists (those are the just examples I remember) out in a flashy way, it will either take a human to make a good graph or it will be a bunch of graph junk, so I wonder if that's the right way to go with that.
The video made me think of Mark Weiser's vision of Ubiquitous Computing. http://www.ubiq.com/weiser/testbeddevices.htm and http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiHome.html
I am already sick of touchscreens after watching this video. Classic Microsoft, missing the touch-interface explosion and then putting all their eggs in one touchscreen basket for a fantastic touchy-screeny future.
By the looks of the video most of the innovation lies in the interface design. No current interface is up to scratch with natural human intuition, mac or pc
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As for the designs I quite like them!
My vision of the future is that the display interface is going to be nearly universal. Just as wireless connection is supplied to us in most public places. So will displays and computing be supplied. They can either be e-ink style surface displays, or rgb laser type projections onto surfaces and floors and whatever. The possible device we carry on our person, will either be computing + storage, or a identifier for a universal, computing + storage. Some of the new led pico projectors start to open this window into how this will work, display of information. Walk around the store and have the items on your shopping list projected on the floor in front of you. Electronic sidewalks can be created in high tourist areas of cities. The public/private consideration has to be calculated, information that is private has to be directed only to the viewer. LCD shuttered glasses, polarized direction of light, etc.
Sure, it isn't exactly the most useful concept, but there's something to be said for a company that brought us Word 97-2003 trying to turn itself into a visionary company instead of just being content to accept the droves of cube workers who will be using their software for the forseeable future. And yeah, so far Microsoft has been unsuccessful with a lot of hardware - especially the Surface, so let's not get into who's in what camp.
Since this is a forum of designers and design enthusiasts, I was wondering if we could talk about the actual concept interface. Let me start - the idea of being able to get a screengrab and then interact with that content is something I haven't seen before, and I really like it. However, any time we try to map stuff like communications, symptoms, or anything else that involves bulleted lists (those are the just examples I remember) out in a flashy way, it will either take a human to make a good graph or it will be a bunch of graph junk, so I wonder if that's the right way to go with that.