It's only eight years since Steven Spielberg's Minority Report amazed audiences with its futuristic technology. But now science is fast catching up
The launch of Microsoft's new Kinect games system, which allows players to run, jump, punch and shoot without having to wear strange clothing or hold any kind of controller, has got technology and cinema buffs alike thinking of Tom Cruise again. Specifically, the moment in the film Minority Report when Cruise, playing police chief John Anderton, tries to figure out film footage and computer data by waving his hands around in mid-air to manipulate it: turning it, shrinking it, pushing it aside, revolving it. Give it time: in a few years, we'll more than likely be controlling our computers in a similar way.
When Minority Report came out in the summer of 2002 – the iPod was less than a year old and the iPhone and iPad weren't even...
The launch of Microsoft's new Kinect games system, which allows players to run, jump, punch and shoot without having to wear strange clothing or hold any kind of controller, has got technology and cinema buffs alike thinking of Tom Cruise again. Specifically, the moment in the film Minority Report when Cruise, playing police chief John Anderton, tries to figure out film footage and computer data by waving his hands around in mid-air to manipulate it: turning it, shrinking it, pushing it aside, revolving it. Give it time: in a few years, we'll more than likely be controlling our computers in a similar way.
When Minority Report came out in the summer of 2002 – the iPod was less than a year old and the iPhone and iPad weren't even...
- 6/17/2010
- by Charles Arthur
- The Guardian - Film News
You have to watch this video, to appreciate how fast gestural interfaces are developing.
It's a cliche to say that Minority Report-style interfaces are just around the corner. But not when John Underkoffler is involved. As tech advistor on the film, he was the guy whose work actually inspired the interfaces that Tom Cruise used. The real-life system he's been developing, called g-speak, is unbelievable.
We've previously covered Underkoffler and his startup, Oblong, but in February, he unveiled his latest work at Ted. The video was just recently put online. And. It. Will. Blow. Your. Mind.
The video is 15 minutes long, but fast forward to 6:30 if you want to zip straight to the trippy stuff. [youtube b6YTQJVzwlI]
Oblong hasn't previously revealed most of the features you see in the later half of the video, including the ability zoom in and fly through a virtual, 3-D image environment (6:30); the ability...
It's a cliche to say that Minority Report-style interfaces are just around the corner. But not when John Underkoffler is involved. As tech advistor on the film, he was the guy whose work actually inspired the interfaces that Tom Cruise used. The real-life system he's been developing, called g-speak, is unbelievable.
We've previously covered Underkoffler and his startup, Oblong, but in February, he unveiled his latest work at Ted. The video was just recently put online. And. It. Will. Blow. Your. Mind.
The video is 15 minutes long, but fast forward to 6:30 if you want to zip straight to the trippy stuff. [youtube b6YTQJVzwlI]
Oblong hasn't previously revealed most of the features you see in the later half of the video, including the ability zoom in and fly through a virtual, 3-D image environment (6:30); the ability...
- 6/11/2010
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
Remember that super high tech user interface Tom Cruise uses in Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report”? You know, the one where he scrolls through and manipulates unthinkable amounts of data with his bare hands in three dimensional space? The same concept that has been copied in dozens of films since, including “Iron Man”? Well, that’s not science fiction — it’s science reality. At Ted 2010, John Underkoffler, the science adviser on “Minority Report,” gave a demonstration of the real life system, the g-speak 3D user interface to a standing ovation. And what’s more, Underkoffler predicted that in no more than five years this concept will be an integral part of every computer, microwave, TV and car dashboard. Awesome.
- 6/2/2010
- by Eric M. Armstrong
- The Moving Arts Journal
At Ted 2010, John Underkoffler, the science advisor for Steven Spielberg's Minority Report, gave a demo of futuristic g-speak 3D user interface. Remember the data interface from Minority Report? Well, it's real, John Underkoffler invented it -- as a point-and-touch interface called g-speak -- and it's about to change the way we interact with data. John Underkoffler led the team that came up with this interface, called the g-speak Spatial Operating Environment. His company, Oblong Industries, was founded to move g-speak into the real world. Oblong is building apps for aerospace, bioinformatics, video editing and more. But the big vision is ubiquity: g-speak on every laptop, every desktop, every microwave oven, TV, dashboard. "It has to be like this," he says. "We all of us every day feel that. We build starting there. We want to change it all." Watch the 15 minute video demo embedded after the jump. via: boingboing...
- 6/2/2010
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
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