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MIT grad student Jinha Lee shows off 3-D desktop interface at TED 2013 conference

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I really wish a proper 3D holographic screen happens in my lifetime, or at least by the time when I am still able to appreciate it.

That TED prototype looks good, but somehow cumbersome.
 
What the hell?

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Why? It seems to be more cumbersome for most computer functions.

Can you see this improving the way you do word processing/spreadsheets, internet browsing, social netoworking, file/media management, or even photo editing?

There is no physical clicking or tapping of icons, it's some cool camera technology but unless they give you a glove or ball that you hold onto for haptic feedback, it's going to be very hard to register that you gave the right input and will make the user slower at switching between applications or manipulating objects.

Considering most office tasks in the past were paper based, I don't see why there is a need for a fully 3d interface like this.

Stuff like having a virtual desk like a giant tablet that you can write/draw on, or flick pages like we saw in an ereading tablet concept a year or so ago, that sounds more interesting than this.
 
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