"Minority Report" Interface Brought to Life by Oblong's g-speak
November 17 2008 / by John Heylin / In association with Future Blogger.net
Category: Gadgets Year: 2011 Rating: 2
This video by Oblong Industries, Inc will amaze you.
g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
What you are seeing is a literal replication of movie magic come to life. Dubbed “g-speak’ by its developers, it uses a “combination of gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels brings the first major step in computer interface since 1984.” They believe this method of computer interaction will be far better suited to the “data-intensive” work people are increasingly doing with their computers (the fact that more than one user can operate a single machine speaks volumes towards this belief).
The tie-in with Minority Report is no coincidence. One of the founders of Oblong worked as a science advisor on the set of that movie and incorporated many of his earlier work at MIT into the set. You can see similarities in the design like having a dedicated room, wearing special gloves, even specialized hand gestures that give it an almost Tai Chi-like feel to it. You could Zen out while doubling your productivity.
How close are we to this kind of design?
