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  Re: Use cases for the new fancy user interface "Dizmo"?  
From: scott
Date: 6 Mar 2014 05:21:15
Message: <53184c1b$1@news.povray.org>
> A small startup is working on a new user interface called Dizmo. It runs
> HTML/JavaScript applications called Dizmos. They are displayed in windows
> that can be freely placed and rotated on the display. In fact, their
> interface does not assume that the display has "up" and "down" at all.
> Also, it is optimized for several users working at the same time on the
> same display. It is supposed to work well with touch and various pointing
> devices.

Several users working on the same display implies the display should be 
quite large (>30" diagonal). Arbitrarily rotated windows implies you 
need a very high pixel density to avoid visible aliasing. Seems like 
this would work really well once we have 8Kx4K UHD TVs :-)


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