Ivan Tihienko had a vision where the world was exactly like Second Life. Actually, his vision was really about designing a new interface that went beyond on screen displays. His final project at the Bezalel academy of Arts and Design is a life size projection of commands and contextual information, which can be initiated by hand or foot gestures. It’s quite nice to see it’s potential for way finding and gaming purposes. However, the keyboard part is still up in the air for me. I’m not sure I’d want the rest of the world see my emails to my mum about her trip to Barcelona, or if they even want to bother with that either. His work is still very inspiring and maybe we’ll see something like this someday!

Anyways, check out the video here:

Holographic Interface – round interface – Ringo from Ivan Tihienko on Vimeo.

Round Interface [via PSFK]