My disclosure: Awesome book, horrible movie. That being said...
I would guess that most of you reading this blog have not seen this movie. It's another bad movie of a great Chricthon book. Near the end of the movie there is a section where Michael Douglas' character must retreive some corportate documents that are apparently only available by virtual reality systems (why, I don't know). I did like this at the time, and honestly I think the concept of navigating the data with gestures still works, but the whole VR headset thing is kind of crazy.
This is the getup the hero of the movie uses: VR helmet, lasers for motion tracking, gloves for hand tracking, and some kind of doohicky he stands on to simulate feeling like he's moving. Thank you Kinect for getting rid of most of these contraptions.
Once in the system, there is the obligitory login:
Douglas then walks around the VR digital libray, where he enters the document section which is comprised of a number of sections such as "Communications" and "Operations", ...
He begins to drill down in operations and into the Hong Kong folder (or should I call it a drawer?):
Opens a sub file:
And starts flicking / reading through the documents in that folder:
This last thing I really like and think is still valid in NUX in the future. I like the grabbing, moving, and reading of documents like this. It feels a lot like my favorite app for the iPad, Papers. I fully expect this type of interface in the near future for document management. There is no reason I can't have this type of interface when I have this type of configuration:
One of the things I do most is find, catalog, and read research papers and computer texts. I would be so much easier if I could just recline back in my chair and navigate with my hands.
I guess I'll need to build that myself!