Showing posts with label Minority Report. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Minority Report. Show all posts

Monday, January 2, 2012

Sci-Fi Do Want: Minority Report gesture based computer UI's

Last time on Sci-Fi Do Want I raved about the coolness of the ED-209 from Robocop. With its menacing visage and absurd background, it soared straight into my sci-fi loving heart.
But this time we're going to be looking at something without the ability to blast you into pieces with 20mm cannons, though we stay in the realm of law enforcement.

Yes folks, it's the computer interface from the department of PreCrime, as featured in the 2002 sci-fi movie "Minority Report"

If you've seen the movie "Minority Report" then you know that the mouse and keyboard is going to be made obsolete by slick gesture recognition.
Never mind that holding up your arms in front of your face for 8 hours would certainly lead to excruciating amounts of pain and chronic injury to your shoulders and elbows. A little physical disability is a small price to pay to look that cool while checking your inbox.

Work with Excel spreadsheets *and* work out your upper body at the same time!
The interface in Minority Report works by the user putting on a special pair of gloves that enable the computer to track your hand movements. This is then coupled with a very large screen that allows you to easily grab and manipulate anything that's on the "desktop".

It's a system that is reminiscent of the gesture controls that we already see today on smartphones and on the Kinect, but of course without any of the many hitches and flaws that are present on these existing platforms.
I think that it's even cooler because you can almost imagine what it would be like to use it in real life, because it is so close to technology of today, yet it is clearly on a whole other level from anything that we have experienced so far.

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