Now that Second Life has released their client "viewer" code as Open Source (GPLv2), we can hope for all sorts of innovative enhancements to the interface. One that I would love to see would be the use of a MultiTouch interface in the Builder tools. To get some idea of how easy it might be to size, position, and shape Second Life prims using a MultiTouch interface, take a look at the Google Video below...
bob wyman
For more on this type of interface you should check out Jeff Han's TED 2006 presentation at
http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/
It will knock your socks off. More here:
http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/
and a FastCompany article on Jeff's company, Perceptive Pixel http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/112/open_features-canttouchthis.html
Posted by: Viggen | March 22, 2007 at 14:38