Crazy War Craft Multi-touch Screen and Voice!

I have recently just learned about a game called World of War Craft.   The game is very interesting with amazing ability to create different types of characters, to help you enter new worlds and face different creatures and fight many challenges.   My son plays this game and in record time he managed to bring up his virtual characters to level 42 overnight.  I am still struggling at level two as a human warrior and keep on running my character into walls and trees as she tries to forage in the jungle for food and stuff.   I find it difficult to memorize all the key board clicks and different combinations of keys I need to push together to make the human warrior move gracefully.  I think I like chess better but I will keep an eye on this very interesting game! My post today is not about World of War Craft.  It is about Multi-touch voice enabled screens!  I wrote earlier about applications that leverage visulization as a mode of expression and processing of information.  I was doing research on data visualization and of all places I found many amazing video clips on YouTube and this War Craft III crazy multi-touch screen shows you a glimpse into the future of application development that combines voice, touch, interactive processing of data.  Take a look at Microsoft Surface personalization and customization of snow board shopping demo.

We already see many consumer commercial grade high resolution, low cost, and scalable multi-touch, multi-sense surface technologies moving into main consumer market and new affordable options are being make available.  Listen to Jeff Han talk about how multi-touch screens will bring new ways of interaction with the machine! And do not laugh when you watch Johnee Lee show you how to make a cheap Wii enabled whiteboard at your home! I laughed really hard when I saw this demo to see the genius and see someone offer us a very cheap and really brilliant "do it yourself" low cost multi-touch, multi-sense whiteboard screen!  Now that is amazing low cast Innovation!  And you should try it too.

Soon we will be using commercial PC's with multi-touch screens that are voice enabled, touch keyboard interfaces, with multi-touch based interfaces.  With this type of surface PC, I think I will be able to keep up with my son's game and I will no longer have to memorize any short key cuts to advance my World of War Craft warrior at least to level three!