| sguy78 said: By no means do I think it will replace the mouse by this time next year. However, I feel it will have potential to do so in later iterations. |
There are a couple of really good things with the mouse that are hard to overcome with any form of motion technology as long as our computers have the interfaces they do today (as in Windows, mainly). It's easy to be completely still, for one. Incredibly high precision, for another. It's small and portable, robust and all you need is a small flat space to sit it on. There is very little chance of fake input (someone had a good phrase for this in a thread a couple of months back, but I cannot remember it..).
If you can beat that, coupled with the other three areas I mentioned, then sure, it can replace the mouse. But in the forseeable future, that won't happen. I don't think any kind of camera could point with higher precision and more ease than a mouse.
But really, how often do you see people using a mouse in science fiction?
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