This is too cool!  The 2d screen and mouse cursor will soon be a thing of the past (similar to the floppy disk that is still an icon on some text editors) 😉

Forget everything you thought you knew about computer cursors. Researchers have come up with a way to turn cursors into a tool that can navigate around 3D space.

Conventional pointers that are controlled with a trackpad and show up as a tiny arrow on a screen will soon be outdated, according to scientists at the University of Montreal in Canada. They have created a way to turn smartphones, tablets or anything with an interactive surface, into a translucent so-called “controlling plane” to select and manipulate objects in a 3D world

Let’s find out more and check out a 3D screen in the video on page 2

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