‘microsoft’

3D Holographic Touch or Kinect for CAD?

09 Nov, 2011 by in CAD

Who cares about the Cloud, when the ability to grab our models is out there? Virtually, that is, in a very awkward, ‘why is this sneeze guard in front of me’, ‘dangit I spilled the ranch dressing on the sunflower seeds’ type of way. Yet, as we fall down the rocky gorge of 3D software technology, with each sharp outcropping shattering another rib as we smile gleefully at the pain and possibility of unlimited data manipulating potential, the idea of direct interaction with our model becomes more real. All compounded and emotionally secured by endless iterations of 3D geometry that haunt our dreams throughout the night. Fabulous times. But, which way will it go? Will we touch the 3D data or will it simply see where we are and adapt accordingly? Or both?

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Windows 8: What to Know & How It Affects Product
Design

15 Sep, 2011 by in TECH

With the typical excitement that goes along with yanking USB cords from your mouth, Microsoft presented Windows 8 this week at BUILD conference Aneheim, with a precision and five-fisted blur of app-kickin’ karate chops that dropped the jaws of Windows users and Apple users alike. Microsoft is showing Windows 8 to be an OS that takes an equally capable touch/mouse interface and spreads it across multiple devices like a shiny layer greased gadget spittle. Yes, it’s lookin’ pretty slick, but how does it affect engineering, product design, the software we use and where we use it? Here’s a quick overview and a few things you’ll want to know.

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3 Top Techs Pushing the Touchless, Eye-tracking Future of CAD

02 Mar, 2011 by in TECH

Quickly now. Stick your hands against the screen. Now, lift them off slightly and move your head to either side. Did you see that? A physical 3-dimensional object rising from the aether around your digits? No, no you didn’t, because it hasn’t happened yet… but it could.

Three technologies have surfaced showing how we may be able to interact, build, create and manipulate geometry in the future, the near future. Bring all three together and you get something even more spectacular.

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Ask The Reader: Are You Upgrading to Windows 7? {Poll}

28 Oct, 2009 by in CULTURE

Well, well, well, from the looks of the last poll, not too many people care about hardware/software upgrade plans. I agree… BORING. For me, a hardware upgrade consists of bottling pure rage (and my new hot sauce recipe) to throw a computer 200 feet into the air.

So, while we’re on the topic of rage, lets do a really cliché poll about Microsoft’s hot new OS, Windows 7, that was made available last week. Maybe this one will get some more interests since Windows is sooooo much better than Mac, and Macs are soooooo much better than Windows.

Yes, completely contradictory statements and why you love SolidSmack a little more that a hard slap across the ear after gagging on a bean.

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How Microsoft’s Live Mesh Will Affect 3D CAD

24 Apr, 2008 by in TECH

microsoft-live-mesh.jpgLast night at 11 PM CST Microsoft let loose the fetters of Live Mesh, a new platform technology to synchronize and interact with data across any device and access it from anywhere from any computer or browser.

Oh, but it’s so much more and it could, and I think will, affect how you work with CAD in ways you may not realize.
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