Ever since the release of Minority Report (2002), Steven Spielberg’s vision of a wall-sized display which merged gesture recognition and floating panels has been a geek’s wet-dream of an operating system. Now Oblong Industries have developed G-Speak, in which they describe it as a “Spatial Operating System”. It’s a very cool combination of using very intuitive hand motions to control the screen in front of you. A lot of this is aimed at being used for data analysis and large data sets but who knows, it could easily be something we could find on our home PC’s in the next decade.
Check out the awesome demo after the jump.
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. Other foundational components are less directly visible but as crucially transformative. The g-speak platform braids development arcs begun in the early 1990s at MIT's Media Laboratory, where Oblong's principals produced radical user interface advances, distributed and networked language designs, and media manipulation technologies.
Source: Oblong Industries Introduction
Also check out LukeW.com’s article on other projects that have tried to create this Minority report like interface with companies including Microsoft and Sun Microsystems here.
Source: Oblong Industries
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