Multi-Touch Table Demonstrated With WarCraft III

[DeathReborn]

Found this on my travels and it certainly looks interesting.

http://www.hiptechblog.com/2006/04/02/v...h-table-demonstrated-with-warcraft-iii

Can anyone see this taking off?

 

[remagavon]

awesome.

 

[5150Joker]

I'd rather play with a mouse, seems too tedious to use your hands on a big screen like that. I think this sort of monitor will be useful for other areas of computing but not gaming.

 

[TrueEevil]

It looks amazing, but it may be WC3 bias since I cant see ever using it.

 

[jamesbond007]

How about putting that sort of thing to productive use rather than gaming? Seems like quite a bit of waste on R&D. :roll: Whatever, I'm not into marketing games and devices!

And why did he state it was difficult to select (box-select) a few specific units with a mouse and it'd be easier with his arms and hands? Is he still using a ball mouse? :laugh:

 

[gamepad]

Activate Maphack.

 

[rstrohkirch]

neat, but was there any command or action he did in that video that DIDN'T take drastically longer then using a mouse/kb shortcuts?

 

[nitromullet]

How about putting that sort of thing to productive use rather than gaming?

Yeah, because that demo would have been much more exciting with excel... zzzzzzzz....

As far as the tech goes it's pretty cool in concept, but I don't understand the idea behind the voice commands. I don't want to talk to my PC, and even more I don't want to listen to someone else talk to their's. I could maybe see this as being useful for presentations or somthing else interactive with an audience, but not really for PC's.

 

[ThunderLew]

Its a cool concept. But aren't his voice commands a bit redundant? If you select a unit and click on the enemy unit, doesn;t the game interpret that action as an attack? Regardless if he said attack or not?

 

[Cooler]

Originally posted by: ThunderLew
Its a cool concept. But aren't his voice commands a bit redundant? If you select a unit and click on the enemy unit, doesn;t the game interpret that action as an attack? Regardless if he said attack or not?

yes it does.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: ThunderLew
Its a cool concept. But aren't his voice commands a bit redundant? If you select a unit and click on the enemy unit, doesn;t the game interpret that action as an attack? Regardless if he said attack or not?

In WC3, you left-click to select, and right-click to issue context-sensitive orders. From the video, it seems like the table doesn't have any way to do right-clicks.

So in that case, you would have to select the unit, hit the key for 'attack' (or say "attack!" and sound like an idiot ), then select the target.

Interesting stuff... but yeah, probably not the best for gaming.

 

[KeithTalent]

I think the video in this thread:

Thread

shows off the potential of this display much better as there are a variety of tasks being performed.

 

[ubercaffeinated]

ahaha while this is cool for like real war command situations, provided they vastly improve the retarded clunkiness, for warcraft 3, no key short cuts = lose. and not just lose but smashT lose. the only way you can beat keyshort cuts, is to... plug in something from the computer to your brain, and directly output commands at the speed of electrical currents. see they need to make something like that - a direct human machine interface. gestures? voice? toooo slowwww.

 

[Paradynexus]

Hi, my name is Edward Tse and I am one of the authors of this work. If you?d like to view some more detailed videos of Warcraft III and Google Earth please visit www.edwardtse.com

 

[TGS]

What would make it more useful in repect to a RTS game, would the to consoldiate the two handed manuevers into a series of one handed motions. That would allow the player to use the other hand to invoke "Keyboard" shortcuts without the use of a keyboard.

For example, Your right hand makes a series of gestures to select a group of units while the left hand could make another series of gestures to assign that group to a number. The use of both hands for a single operation seems counter productive to the keyboard mouse counterparts. As you can accomplish two operations, or at least compelte one action with the mouse and start moving to another while you perform keyboard shortcuts on the first operation.

I also didn't see a cancel command on unit actions.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: rstrohkirch
neat, but was there any command or action he did in that video that DIDN'T take drastically longer then using a mouse/kb shortcuts?

He was demonstrating.
When you deomnstrate things, usually you do them at a fairly slow pace so they are clear.
IRL it would likely in practice be quicker, whether quicker than KB + mouse is another matter, but quicker almost certainly than a demonstration.

 

[Insomniator]

This is the first step towards having a computer like the one in the movie The Island..
Basically his whole desk was the screen and glass pyramids could be moved to move
the windows on the screen. It looked cool, probably useless in reality..

 

[Schadenfroh]

I would rather use a mouse or trackball.