Incredible Spatial Interaction System makes Minority Report a reality

November 18th, 2008 | Category: Information Visualization, Marketing, Usability

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This isn’t the first time I’ve seen spatial interfaces in place, but it’s definitely one of the coolest. See the video below from the folks at Oblong (originally from MIT):

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

Here’s some Movie References that show similar interfaces:

Jurassic Park – Unix System Scene
by unixguru

And of course there’s the scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character actually uses one of these interfaces. Well…

Some of the SOE’s core ideas are already familiar from the film Minority Report, whose characters performed forensic analysis using massive, gesturally driven displays. The similarity is no coincidence: one of Oblong’s founders served as science advisor to Minority Report and based the design of those scenes directly on his earlier work at MIT.

So what industry is most likely to use this kind of technology first. Probably the one that is always the most technological adept and first to market. Oh come on, you know. It’s THAT one.