Starfire video prototype

Starfire video prototype

Starfire was a Sun Microsystems promotional video filmed in 1994, demonstrating Bruce Tognazzini's ideas for twenty-first century computer user interface. Inspired in part by Apple Computer's Knowledge Navigator film from 1987, Tognazzini and his team at SunSoft sought to create a more realistic look at how computer technology and interfaces would improve. The project drew together the talents of more than 100 engineers, designers, futurists, and filmakers in an effort to both predict and guide the future of computing.

The film is set in the year 2004 and features a protagonist interacting by voice, mouse, and stylus with a five-foot wide computer screen.

In addition to the film, the project also produced:

* Tog on Software Design, which not only covers the film in intimate detail, but lays out several more equally thought-provoking scenarios, even if they were not enshrined in celluloid.
* Starfire, the Paper, published in the CHI Proceedings, outlining the rules followed in attempting to build a scientifically legitimate video prototype, as opposed to simply confabulating a fanciful, but non-implementable, vision.

The film was released as the Starfire video, in NTSC format, and later made available as part of a collection of human-computer interaction videos.

See also

Microsoft Surface - It uses similar technology such as multi touch screen.

External links

* [http://www.idemployee.id.tue.nl/g.w.m.rauterberg/movies/ A collection of human-computer interaction videos] .
* [http://www.asktog.com/starfire/starfireHome.html Bruce Tognazzini's homepage about Starfire] , includes the full original video.
* [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.09/streetcred.html?pg=19 "Future Forward"] — a review of Starfire in Wired Magazine issue 3.09 — Street Cred section — author: Will Kreth.


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