Oblong Displays G-Speak Spatial Operating Environment
Oblong Industries has recently released video of something truly amazing. Direct from the pages of Minority Report, Oblong has created a spatial operating Environment they call g-speak. This system allows a user to interact with a projected environment by using only hand gestures. The environment has three projector screens and a table that can swivel. A user uses specially designed gloves that are tracked by IR cameras to control the environment. In the video you can see the users looking at maps, accessing information in a 3D environment, and even drawing 3D images. The company acknowledges the similarities between their g-speak and the interactive display used in the movie, “The similarity is no coincidence: one of Oblong’s founders served as science adviser to Minority Report and based the design of those scenes directly on his earlier work at MIT.” The g-speak delivers HD quality images that can be moved from screen to screen. Users can also move objects, or even parts of images, onto the table in front of them for close up work. The system can even tell when the table swivels and will turn the image accordingly. In addition, the g-speak supports two hand gestures as well as multi user commands.
[via DVICE]
