Would you like to shop on Web sites such as Amazon.com and eBay with your own 3-D animated character who cruises through a virtual shopping mall rendered with high-quality 3-D animation?
Mark Dean, director of IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, has dedicated a lot of research firepower to make that happen as 3-D animation moves beyond virtual worlds and video games.
He expects realistic 3-D will go mainstream as a primary user interface for a computer. Combined with technologies such as touch screens, it will be the way we interact with computers or visit Web sites, much like Tom Cruise in the "Minority Report" when he sifts through data by moving his arms around and grabbing things on a transparent computer screen.
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Mark Dean, director of IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, has dedicated a lot of research firepower to make that happen as 3-D animation moves beyond virtual worlds and video games.
He expects realistic 3-D will go mainstream as a primary user interface for a computer. Combined with technologies such as touch screens, it will be the way we interact with computers or visit Web sites, much like Tom Cruise in the "Minority Report" when he sifts through data by moving his arms around and grabbing things on a transparent computer screen.
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