Microsoft to overhaul Windows 10 UI – with a 3D Holographic Shell (Virtual Reality)

The Register ^ | Aug 16, 2016 | Chris Williams

[minnesota_bound]

Windows 8 touch screen in 3D

[Billthedrill]

Looks like fun, actually. Display is always miles ahead of I/O, though.

I can just hear that sexy Cortana voice now: "Drill, you want those sports scores? Drop and give me ten, and do thirty laps around the room. You want FR, you gotta strangle three virtual commies first. And don't even ask me what you're going to have to do to surf those pr0n websites..."

[RavenLooneyToon]

Tom Cruise does not use the Micro-soft version, he prefers instead, the one supplied by the Xenu.

[RavenLooneyToon]

Upside: People will have really strong arms!

It will be so easy to spot the porn addicts...one arm much larger than the other.

[MeganC]

“It will be so easy to spot the porn addicts...one arm much larger than the other.”

You made me think of Popeye!

[Ray76]

Oh brother. A “solution” in search of a problem.

[upchuck]

Thanks for the ping.

Win 10... yawn... not in my house.

[VanDeKoik]

“Touch UI failed on W8, Voice UI failed on W10, so hey, if you’re Microsoft, why not go for the ultimate failed UI: the 3D holographic UI! “

Well they haven’t.

That’s like saying “Point and click UIs have failed” back in 1987, which I’m sure someone likely did.

These things evolve and become more part of OSs and other tech as time goes on.

Jesus, it’s like some people actually desire for progress to never occur with technology unless it comes from Apple or Android, where they will gladly use the exact same setup as long as you slapped a different corporate logo on it.

[angryoldfatman]

Jesus, it’s like some people actually desire for progress to never occur with technology unless it comes from Apple or Android, where they will gladly use the exact same setup as long as you slapped a different corporate logo on it.

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I can’t wait for Apple or Google to propose a comparable UI, so I can point and laugh at them too.

Microsoft’s been rubbing that boo-boo it received from missing the smartphone train, and it needs to man up.

Now that Apple is no longer innovating at the pace it did 10 years ago, Microsoft really has a chance to grab the wheel. They need some better leaders and more useful talent to get ahead - whether they hire them or buy them.

[Terry L Smith]

Dear Megan,

re: “Why would you need to wear glasses with these? They ARE glasses!”

No, it is a SCREEN, inside a hood hanging over your face, blocking your seeing anything else.

No matter how good a SCREEN is, the human eye in it’s frailties, would still see a SCREEN, in as much focus as the lens of the eye can make it out.

So, if you are near-sighted, the SCREEN may still not in as crisp focus, as someone with 20/20 vision. The same thing with far-sightedness.

And with your given sight, you missed the other note i made. What was that? How can you have a rectangular shadow 90 degrees off from the table in front of the non-shadow-creating human, and the dog has a shadow directly under it.

[Terry L Smith]

There is one thing in all this computer greatness ....

Storms travel across the nation, dispensing little or lots of rain, wind, and electrical discharges. Sometimes, those electrical discharges connect with a power line, a transformer, or some such, and KAPOW! out go the lights.

I still keep all my stuff on paper, so i can look and work with it by flashlight or candle, and yes, i live in Louisiana.

[Terry L Smith]

Dear rarestia,

I’m glad that this new-fangled computer stuff can be used by you. Mazel Tov!

As for me, I look at kids that cannot write or read handwriting, created with a pen and a human hand. I look at kids that cannot form a complete sentence without insane colloquillisms, nor speak a complete sentence in a single train of thought, without an urban dictionary. I see people do insane gyrations while employing a hand-held device looking for what would have been in the 1960’s a psychedelic experience, or a bad trip.

I can gladly say that, like Tommy Lee jones in ‘Men in Black II’, “What is a game boy?”

[MeganC]

If you can’t see a screen that’s about an inch from your eyes then glasses aren’t going to be much use to you either.

[Terry L Smith]

Dear megan,

if i must affix a screen in front of my face by some kind of headwear in order to do anything electronic, i will do without, thank you.

[MeganC]

Me, too. But I’m just saying that if you need glasses to see a screen that’s just one inch from your eyes then using such a screen should be among the least of your worries.

[Oztrich Boy]

I miss MS-DOS

[rarestia]

Are you adversely impacted by this technology, Terry? User interface studies are taking place across every field of study and impacting everyone in one way or another. You might not yet have a use for this new-fangled gadgetry, but some day you might. There might come a day where augmented reality glasses could help you to decipher the handwriting of today’s kids, or translate the sentences into a meaning that is clearer for you. You just never know.

Years ago, I would’ve told everyone that I could live without a phone. Now I know that I couldn’t. I’d survive, sure, but technology is meant to enhance life, not replace it. You’ll find something beneficial to you soon enough.

[Terry L Smith]

Dear rarestia, First, a pice of information. I have been involved with electronic engineering, design, implementation and deployment within the Dept. of Defense from 1970 to the time I walked away from it all. Any FOIA's cannot be satisfied, since it has not reached the 25 year mark from my last associated activity. Now, as to your questions: 1. Are you adversely impacted by this technology, Terry? No. Employing simple mathematics, one can deduce that I am not the age of a pajama'd momma's boy living in the basement. "Help me to decipher the handwriting of today’s kids"???? I have already had to decipher illegible chickenscratching of those who had graduated from Louisiana State University/Agriculture, when these same fine young college graduates came looking for work through the State job office, where I worked, some 7 years ago. They could neither write legibly, nor convey a cognitive stream of thought. <> Are you stating that you were raised in a household without a telephone? Or are you alluding to owning a cellular mobile phone, as an adult? I still enjoy a nice manual typewriter. I still 'keep all my own books' in pen and ink. I still write in journals with pen and ink. For 6 years, I wrote a calendared column in the regional newspaper, submitted in person. Lastly, i still listen to ... a RADIO!! (gasp!)

[DeFault User]

I can stand the search dog, but at least we haven't seen this guy in awhile.

[jjotto]

Heck, I once had smiley Bob! Yuk!