Ubisoft reveals Ruse surprise

can I move in with you if you do?

The table can be basically any size. Many of them are not mammoth at all.

everything smudges. When you have humans and pizza on a big table...grease is going to get on there and it's GOING to smudge. Plus I bet there's gonna be kids around a few of the tables...and we all know how kids are.

Wow i think im going to use this as a quote for the next time i see anyone complain about the price of a ps3. lol

Capslock means he's angry.

I thought it meant you missed the shift key and didn't feel like retyping it all.

Wonderfully off-topic but apparently it matters; in fact, I never use caps lock. It was all shift key. It always is. ALWAYS. I caps for a reason. 8|

Your avatar scares the crap out of me every time.

Despite the fact you're a Mr. ESC and thus an idiot, I'll reply to your statement.

You may think it's overpriced, but you still want one, if it was offered for free, you'd take it and most likely use it, so your point is moot.

Some people clearly lack vision. Just like every other piece of tech that has been released, it will drop in price, it will be mass-produced, and it will be awesome. Seriously, maybe companies should just stop making futuristic shit so idiots who don't understand how technology works won't whine about cost.

I hope you get banned again, Mr Esc. Don't come back this time.

@Velsar (ur second comment)

if someone gave me ANY electronic thing for free i'd take it... idk where ur from

In the immortal words of Henry Ford, "If I'd asked the people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." QED

I hate to be the bearer of bad news... or good in this case, but the military already uses this system with heavy modification as a military tactical display... you may have seen evolutions of it in shows and games such as Halo Wars, and ODST, and a few others...

Hint: It's the tactical display map, the one that has 3d capabilities, while the military version doesn't YET... it's the first step to inciting a holographic advancement, and a more detailed look at battlefields, which can be instantly generated via satellite scans and then uploaded to the systems...

Indeed such systems have NO USE... it's not like the government ever spent 15000 dollars on anything, oh wait most advanced weapons cost at least 4000 dollars for the government, the OICW cost 30,000 for just one... 15000 for battlefield display maps with another 2000 for advanced programming and modifications... it's a template sure but it's very advanced and very effective.

Indeed such a waste of money, what will battlefield commanders do next?

Oh but wait there's more... the restaurants in very wealthy locations have already begun using it as advertised... this means that eventually it will be reduced in price and compartmentalized and that means that more places will use it, until eventually something like this will cost 400 - 1000 dollars, like a TV...

Oh my... but wait THERE'S MORE!!!

Graphs remarkably are BRILLIANT when looked DOWN upon, not towards, but DOWN... and this allows for much more mathematical calculation displays, and of course this can advance into science itself, as well as charts and businesses.

The NEW CHART which means success, is the Surface Table, which ironically would equal a degree of success.

But as shown in the Ruse Trailer, it's very possible that the next chessboard becomes the surface table, in time...

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Who's the hillbilly now?

I take offense at that though.

Way too many posts...

Okay then, understand the military uses this for one reason, battle-field mapping, you don't put a chair or a circle as a map, you put a map, generally on a table, and while this won't work for haphazard set ups, it will work for outposts and designated bases, and the reason it's so important that they use this is because if the military sees use in battlefield mapping via LCD's they will pay close attention to the holographic market (which has begun to be researched into) and that will allow for actual levels of mapping on flat surfaces, which will eventually allow for 3d structuring, and eventually at the peak, will result in holographic maps of a purely 3 dimensional level, perhaps even without the table itself.

It's not that the surface is a table that matters, it's that it is a platform which the military feels comfortable using, and that it brings ease into the concept that it's a futuristic map display. The technology aspect allows for instant updates, relaying, and essentially End War and Halo Wars-esque computing, scaling, and planning as seen in the cinematics.

Most sci-fi technology becomes feasible, and without this step we'll have to wait for another innovation to appear, and they'll make a platform off of that.

Wow, you're really entrenched in your opinion on this one. I see you don't like quotes, so how about an analogy? When "personal" computers first came out, they were really expensive, and a lot of people said they would never be useful in the home and that they were really only needed for engineers, etc. Yet here we are today, led into a new information age by visionaries, and computers are affordable and everywhere.

Perhaps the reason no one has given you a compelling home use for these is because that's what fortunes are made of. Someone comes up with a great idea and then sells it. But imagine if this was a lot more affordable. It could replace your current coffee table, and you could show off your photos (instead of a your coffee table photo book) or you could play games (instead of that closet of board games you have). These are just extensions of what has been demoed, so I realize it's nothing groundbreaking, but if the cost difference was minimal, I would choose one of these tables over a normal table. Or maybe you could use this in conjunction with a traditional computer, allowing you to do some tasks (like organization, which looks way easier when doing it with two hands and a huge space instead of a mouse and traditional computer hierarchy). I don't know, I haven't played with one, let alone tried to develop for one, but I'm sure someone will come up with good ideas for it.

Basically, stop crying about the $15,000 price tag, it makes it look like you have no idea how technology is developed or progresses. When this actually becomes a viable option for the home consumer, it will cost less.

good question... also, would it be possible, as they mentioned, to scale it down iphone-size (oh but PLEASE not ds-size cuz the graphics would be like crap!)

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