Hopefully you’ve seen the Tom Cruise move Minority Report. It takes place way in the future and in the movie he has a huge computer on nothing but flat glass screens. The coolest part is that he would put on these gloves and control the entire computer by hand gestures. It now turns out [...]
If you've been waiting for that Minority Report-style interface to really come to fruition, you can finally exhale. One of the science advisors from the Steven Spielberg film -- along with a team of other zany visionaries -- has created an honest-to-goodness, real-world implementation of the computer systems seen in the movie. Dubbed g-speak, the mind bending OS combines "gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels," to deliver what the creators call "the first major step in computer interface since 1984." There are some things that need to seen to be understood, so watch the video after the break, and prepare to have your mind thoroughly blown to bits. more about "Oblong's g-speak: the 'Minority Repor...", posted with vodpod