Tablet PCs

Steve Dekorte steve at dekorte.com
Sun Jun 15 05:53:37 UTC 2003


On Saturday, June 14, 2003, at 03:22 PM, Andrew Berg wrote:
> Being one of the
> few people ever to try to play Quake with a
> touchscreen, it is amazing how
> inferior it is to a simple mouse.

Hi Andrew,

I can see first person shooters geing difficult to control with touch 
screens, but things like strategy games may be much easier on one. 
Also, games like wacka-mole and missile command would almost certainly 
be better with a touch screen.

More food for thought: Let's say your console was a drafting table 
screen that wrapped 360 degrees around your chair - how well would a 
mouse work? Let's say cheep organic displays make it possible to cover 
everything with "screens" in the future(walls, tables, even clothing). 
Would it be better to walk around with a mouse or to touch them with 
your hands directly to interact?

Cheers,
Steve
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