Oblong pushes the boundaries of fiction and reality

Minority Report was a breakthrough in fictional design of interactive technology back in 2002. The vision for Human Computer Interaction in the film has since guided the tech community’s attempts to match the capabilities shown by Tom Cruise’s magic gloves.

Oblong.com is making headway in achieving the level of interaction and pure “wow” that could easily pass for magic in many parts of the world.

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

The only drawback with the obvious brilliance of this interface is that the complexity of the tasks being demonstrated is specific to the gesture/interaction performed. The skills and knowledge to acquire a productive level of use would probably take years to learn. The guys in Oblong and hopefully here in Tricycle too will do a lot of the “hard yards” now to design the “conventions” and “protocols” that will guide the universal language of Gesture Driven Input.

Keep up the good work guys, its going to take a while though!