The Future of Design

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A 2013 SpaceX demo in which engineers design a rocket part in 3D using hand gestures, with the design shown in a holographic-style display and sent on toward 3D printing. It was presented as a vision of how engineering design could work without a mouse and keyboard.

HN people submitted it many times as a striking glimpse of gesture-controlled 3D design going straight to fabrication.

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@the_arun2014 · in “Elon Musk and SpaceX’s Hand Gesture Holographic Interface”
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@morphics2013 · in “The Future of Design”
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@susanhi2013 · in “The Future of Design (SpaceX Designing a Rocket Part with Hand Gestures)”
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@tonteldoos2013 · in “SpaceX 3D manipulation and printing”
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@svetly2013 · in “The Future of Design”
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@rglovejoy2013 · in “The Future of Design at SpaceX (video)”
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@cryptoz2013 · in “SpaceX demos gesture controlled design for direct 3D printing”
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@dshankar2013 · in “Elon Musk – The Future of Design [video]”
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@heimatau2020 · in “Autodesk criticised by architects”
As an emerging EE, I fully agree. I honestly believe it could be done with solid quality. Early today I saw this very old video of Elon at SpaceX with their design software [1]. It's amazing to me that this video was six years ago. Revit is the prized gem. Whomever creates it, focus on Revit and focus on the pain-points. [1] - ▶ this video
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@mikeytown22018 · in “SpaceX's Falcon Heavy center booster lacked ignition fluid to re-light engines”
SpaceX has a fairly large collection of graphics cards for simulation purposes see link and ▶ this video
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@ljk2015 · in “Accurate, Robust, and Flexible Real-Time Hand Tracking [pdf]”
reminsd me of spaceX's take on it ▶ this video