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I think it has the potential to revolutionize drawing and resemble the traditional drawing table. Can be very comfortable and efficient for anyone designing phy

by Misha_B 16y ago

I think it has the potential to revolutionize drawing and resemble the traditional drawing table. Can be very comfortable and efficient for anyone designing physical objects (civil engineers, architects, industrial designers). There are already graphic tablets, of course, but they are very expensive and very specialized. This makes me hope that my current way of working staring directly at the screen while moving the mouse might change in a few years.

po 16y ago
It might have that potential but I think illustrators and architects will be the last people to adopt it. If you've ever used the last version you would see it was slow, imprecise, buggy, and gave you the feel that you were only vaguely connected to the display. There will always be artists on the leading edge of technology doing cool things, but for people who have jobs to get done, this is one to wait on. There is a restaurant here in Tokyo where each table is a surface. It took us forever to order because we couldn't manipulate the menus. Our server had to leave the table while taking orders to reboot it. It interpreted input as chorded input because something or someone else was on the table turning pan operations into zoom operations. Quite funny, not practical. There are already tablet/monitor hybrids (and I mean digitizer tablets with pressure sensitive pens) that don't suffer from the imprecision and accidental input of this and I think they are somewhat popular with artists. A Microsoft Surface, even an order of magnitude better than the last version isn't going to cut it.