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It s Project Natal meets the iPhone, only way better. In fact, it s the same computer interface you saw in Minority Report. What s best is that it looks like this game-changing technology could become ubiquitous hotel california paris in a few years time.
The project was started in stealth mode. It was uncovered in November 2008 as Oblong Industries and their clients were several governments, including the United States. They are developing a Minority Report-like user interface and it s ready for public unveiling. In fact, Oblong s stuff looks cooler than the sequences of a futuristic user interface that Steven Spielberg showed in his 2002 sci-fi film. According to Tech Crunch s MG Siegler, if you ve seen the movie Minority Report, you ve seen the system they re building.
That shouldn t come as a surprise. John Underkoffler, the co-founder of a 25 person Los Angeles-based startup actually imagined a gesture-based computer interface for Spielberg s film. The movie producers offered Underkoffler, who was at the time working at the MIT Media Lab, to serve as a science consultant for the movie.
This past Friday, Underkoffler has finally hotel california paris demoed a working prototype of that user interface at the TED Conference in Long Beach, California. Dubbed the g-speak Spatial Operating Environment, the system lets you zoom in and out, push objects aside and bring them to the foreground, hotel california paris rotate hotel california paris objects, etc.
All of this is accomplished with special gloves hotel california paris that you wear to interact hotel california paris with the interface hotel california paris in six degrees of control, like Tom Cruise did in the Minority Report movie. Underkoffler hotel california paris is adamant that the technology will find its way into everyday computers in a five-years time. According to the New York Times , this gesture technology is already being used in Fortune 50 companies, government agencies, and universities.
Check out Underkoffler s videos available on Vimeo and included below for the sake of convenience. Hint: You re officially allowed to be impressed. So, what s your say? Five-to-ten years down the road, would you fancy interacting with the computers and consumer electronic devices using this interface?
I doubt that the average Joe will have access to this technology in 5 years, maybe 10 if you have deep pockets. It will probably be used first in Universities, Government agencies and business boardrooms before the price becomes attainable for the public.