Nsquared "Seamless Computing demo" shows the awesome things you can do with MS Surface, a tablet, ki - Polidicks

Last saturday, Nsquared posted this demo of what they have been developing for the Microsoft Tablet (yes, that awesome device that no one has seen in real life), and it goes out to show that you can feel like in StarTrek with current technology. [b]The demo is all working code (or so they claim) and they will post in coming weeks how these technologies work.[/b] Nsquared is an australian software company that specializes on immersive interface software for devices like Microsoft Surface and the Kinect. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oALIuVb0NJ4[/media] It seems kind of bullshit some of the things they show, and until they post how it works, I WANT TO BELIEVE.

Seems like a tool that criminals can use to plot escapes without having to actually scout the place out first

Too bad it probably won't be available for a long time... Very awesome, though.

He goes to a website to find a 2D picture of a door handle, and renders it in 3D? Advanced techniques...

I'm pretty proud of the boner I got over this

[QUOTE=FPtje;32024596]He goes to a website to find a 2D picture of a door handle, and renders it in 3D? Advanced techniques...[/QUOTE]He talks about how the sites are using software compatible with their application to do it.

I reckon Bill is actually the guy in the background whose head you can see. In all seriousness, some if it does indeed seem like a load of bullshit, like the "accurate 3D model out of a single 2D picture in an instant".

[QUOTE=FPtje;32024596]He goes to a website to find a 2D picture of a door handle, and renders it in 3D? Advanced techniques...[/QUOTE] The 2D picture could represent 3D data, like a model or such that's loaded up when he drags it to the 'big screen'. The picture of the lamp into 3D is horseshit, though. You can't pick up accurate depth information from a single picture, and yet it somehow even knows there's a button on the back of the lamp head not to mention the correct colors and depth information of the entire object. Unless it only deals with a preset amount of data or just guesses at whatever object is closest to the one you want, it's impossible to obtain that much data.

[QUOTE=TheCloak;32024458]Seems like a tool that criminals can use to plot escapes without having to actually scout the place out first[/QUOTE] Uhm, they're not demonstrating a tool that gives you a 3d view of random buildings on google maps.

Incredibly skeptical on this one. I honestly doubt the computer rendered that lamp from one picture.

This is so sci-fi.

[QUOTE=OpethRockr55;32024687]The 2D picture could represent 3D data, like a model or such that's loaded up when he drags it to the 'big screen'. The picture of the lamp into 3D is horseshit, though. You can't pick up accurate depth information from a single picture, and yet it somehow even knows there's a button on the back of the lamp head not to mention the correct colors and depth information of the entire object. Unless it only deals with a preset amount of data or just guesses at whatever object is closest to the one you want, it's impossible to obtain that much data.[/QUOTE]I'm guessing the 2D picture gives the program what information is needs to pick out the 3D model out of a database.

Wow, that's awesome.

Kinda funny though, seeing a lot of people jumping to say "No! That's bullshit! You can't do that!" But I'm gonna have to point you to that little thread nearby about Euclideon's Unlimited Detail.

We could have done this long ago. [editline]31st August 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=FPtje;32024596]He goes to a website to find a 2D picture of a door handle, and renders it in 3D? Advanced techniques...[/QUOTE] Not any image. It's Microsoft Silverlight.

Some of it is doable, but the fucking picture scan of the lamp into a 3d model is so bullshit on so many levels

Too bad Microsoft surface is a piece of shit I used one in the Microsoft store and you have to press down with the force of a thousand tons for it to recognize your touch

I like how you're al focusing on the bit where he makes a 3d model from a picture which seems relatively reasonable considering he just scanned a piece of paper with a screen.

[QUOTE=icemaz;32025285]I like how you're al focusing on the bit where he makes a 3d model from a picture which seems relatively reasonable considering he just scanned a piece of paper with a screen.[/QUOTE]With Surface 2.0, you can do exactly that, it's not that bad of a scanner, either. The rendering of 3D data from a image is the only discretion in this video.

[QUOTE=SomeRandomGuy16;32025100]Too bad Microsoft surface is a piece of shit I used one in the Microsoft store and you have to press down with the force of a thousand tons for it to recognize your touch[/QUOTE] im pretty sure that'd break the screen

[QUOTE=NorthernGate;32025649]im pretty sure that'd break the screen[/QUOTE]I'm pretty sure that'd break the entire device. And the ground under the device.

Considering area of fingertip you may even reach core of earth.

[QUOTE=icemaz;32025285]I like how you're al focusing on the bit where he makes a 3d model from a picture which seems relatively reasonable considering he just scanned a piece of paper with a screen.[/QUOTE] Microsoft Surface isn't a regular touchscreen device, it somehow can actually detect the shape and colors of the things you put on it. scanning documents on it is pretty easy.

[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;32024845]Kinda funny though, seeing a lot of people jumping to say "No! That's bullshit! You can't do that!" But I'm gonna have to point you to that little thread nearby about Euclideon's Unlimited Detail.[/QUOTE] That's such a terrible analogy that I am going to point you to a little thing called "get out"

I used one of those MS Surface things in a museum in Washington D.C. They're pretty cool, and I'm surprised not many people know about it.

I had to stop at the lamp into a model. Unlike everything else he did on the tablet, they didn't show him "cutting the space around the lamp and putting it on the big screen"

[QUOTE=barttool;32025893]Microsoft Surface isn't a regular touchscreen device, it somehow can actually detect the shape and colors of the things you put on it. scanning documents on it is pretty easy.[/QUOTE] Regular multi-touch screen can detect shape of objects easily. It is more of software.

[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;32024845]Kinda funny though, seeing a lot of people jumping to say "No! That's bullshit! You can't do that!" But I'm gonna have to point you to that little thread nearby about Euclideon's Unlimited Detail.[/QUOTE] you are literally ignorant of everything and a horrible person for saying something so uniformed and dumb

Anybody remember when MS said that in a few years we'd all be able to afford Surface tables? I really wish that happened.

Apparently some people from the Unlimited Detail following wandered in here and got offended because I made a very correct comparison between the two topics. Well done. It is actually really humorous.