Everyone into computers and technology knows the movie Minority Report’s scenes with that amazing PC with the GUI interface that used nothing but hand-gestures to navigate. Well as it turns out that idea is coming to life through the movies technology advisor/designer and MIT graduate John Underkoffler. It's called g-speak Spatial Operating Environment, the interface will become a marketable system instead of science fiction. What g-speak does is use a series of cameras to track the targets placed on the users gloves while traversing in a 3D environment with sub-millimeter precision. Not only that, but g-speak can incorporate multiple users at the same time, even if the users are at different locations. We as humans live in a 3D world and use computers, or rather computer peripherals such as a mouse or keyboard, which are inherently situated in a 2D environment. John, through his company Oblong, designed g-speak (based off the I/O Bulb and Luminous Room Systems), to overcome the limitations imposed through current technology. John states that within five years this new technology will be incorporated in new PC systems and available to everyone. When asked how this could be done, he says that the camera’s needed for g-speak will probably be housed in the monitors bezel. Does this mean the mouse and keyboard will no longer be needed? Mr. Underkoffler states that within time even g-speak’s gloves won’t be needed.
Video link to John Underkoffler’s presentation of g-speak at TED 2010:
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