Every movie set in the future must design every aspect of the production in the way a futurist might iamagine the progress of technology. Forks, pizza, baby cariages, everything. User interfaces evolve faster than many things in the world, changing as our tools iterate wildly. Here’s an exploration of science fiction heads up displays from movies released in 2024, from Sci-Fi Interfacees:

True to the minimalism that permeates much of the interfaces [in the film Dune 2], the AR of this device has a rounded-rectangle frame from which hangs a measure of angular degrees to the right. There are a few ticks across the center of this screen (not visible in this particular screen shot). There is a row of blue characters across the bottom center. I can’t read Harkonnen, and though the characters change, I can’t quite decipher what most of them mean. But it does seem the leftmost character indicates azimuth and the rightmost character angular altitudeof the glasses. Given the authoritarian nature of this House, it would make sense to have some augmentation naming the royal figures in view, but I think it’s a sensor display, which leaves the user with a lot of work to figure out how to use that information.

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