Talk:Multi-touch
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[edit] "Multi-Touch" in Minority Report
The "Multi-Touch" in Minority Report has *nothing* to do with Hans FTIR-Multitouch. As you can plainly see, the user has to wear a tracking device on its hands (with some visible-light LEDs) and doesn't even touch the screen but gestures around a lot (like pointing to a snippet in the far side of the screen and moving the index finger to the center in order to make it move there).
And gesture tracking is nothing new, the movie represented just the technical reality -- at the time of its making! todays trackers for example work without the special device and recognize plain hands.
apart from this, multi-touch is not hans invention (though multi-touch with FTIR is. and of course those nice apps), microsoft research for example has built "touch light" 1-2y earlier and invented the scaling technique Han uses for moving/scaling/rotating images with one motion (but it's very easy to make up by yourself as soon as you know what you want). and there are some non-transparent approaches, also (plus apps, but not as cool).
So maybe the article should lay off its "fanboyish" attitude to multitouch and list up the facts. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.129.243.120 (talk) 20:15, 17 January 2007
____ I agree. I removed the ref to Minority Report once, and pop, it is back again. I have no interest in bouncing it back off and on. But there is simply no reason for it here. If you want a real Minority Report type interface, then go back to 1983 and references to Myron Krueger and Videoplace. Minority report was not even the first movie to demonstrate that kind of gestural interaction. But that's not the point. It is a trivial reference, contributes nothing, and adding material about the 25 year history of multi-touch would be a far more useful way to spend time. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wasbuxton (talk • contribs).
