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  M4RK

  12 years ago

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  Edge to edge displays are bad for touch screens....

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  Luke

  12 years ago

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  Look, It's a great showcase for their skill (and I am aware that they're a visual effects studio); but this isn't something I would think warrants over 2 million views and counting.
  
  Nothing wrong with creative exercises, but this is much too finished to be called an "exercise" and it's not all too terribly creative. Most of these ideas have been done to death in sci-fi since Minority Report came out, and the rest had been lifted straight off the OLPC project.
  
  Instead of getting rid of the bezel on an iPad 2 and playing with clicking iPads together or projecting some impossible tabletop controls, maybe they should have asked, "Okay, what's the computing industry going to look like in 10-15 years? What sort of tech could we reasonably hope to see in that time frame?"
  
  Here, with this video, they only did their job. It's aesthetically appealing and wonderfully demonstrates their skill, but there's nothing groundbreaking or exciting here.
  
  Bret Victor wrote an article that pretty much lays out the perspective I'm coming from, especially that last bit about Alan Kay being inspired by Don Bitzer's 256 pixel display.
  http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/

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  Austin

  12 years ago

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  You must really hate concept cars, then.
  
  What's wrong with excercises in creativity? Not to mention the company that put this together is a digital effects company, probably looking for work in TV and film.

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  Luke

  12 years ago

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  They're skilled at AfterEffects, I'll give them that, but industrial designers they are not.
  
  It really rubs me the wrong way when reasonable expectations for technology are thrown out the window and basic details pertaining to usability and manufacturability are completely ignored in the name of slick visual effects.

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