Gesture input is ultimately pointless without force feedback, or else you don't feel the interaction and the lack of intuitive feeling makes you want to go back to comfortable interfaces.

I remember being really excited for the Wii and swinging my sword for the first time in Legend of Zelda. My sword was blocked; my hand kept moving. Immersion gone.

I don't believe that's true, it may depend on the action.

I'm very comfortable pointing a person or animal where to go, and the lack of force feedback doesnt make me want to go up to them and push them into where they ought to be. Bit different than wielding a sword.

What you have done is give an example where it would be an improvement to have force feedback. It's a common fallacious way to try and disprove something.

It does not mean that this is the general case. Actually, it doesn't matter if it is. If there are a dozen uses without feedback, and 3 dozen uses with feedback, it's still a big win to get the first dozen uses.

It is a big loss regardless if the lack of convenient feedback means the application is never used, even if force feedback is not necessary to function.

yes, it's a big loss if you have nothing now and add a solution for some people. But since it can't meet the needs of everyone ... </sarcasm> You want it all or nothing. seems unreasonable.

As Tim Cook said to me, if you make something that doesn't change behavior, it's a gimmick, and it won't last.

If motion sensors have an application - perhaps for people with disabilities - by all means go for it. But innovation for its own sake can be a waste of time.

Do you mean like speech recognition before it's 100% ready? It's pretty limited now and I've noticed that Siri is easily confused and people seem to have to repeat themselves quite often.

Obviously, motion sensors have a lot of use without force feedback. Feel free to wait until that point. Telling the rest of us that we don't need it seems pointless.

I like that quote. Thanks.

The imaginary eWii would trigger electroshocks on collisions, causing short muscle spasms.