Minority Report-style computing with the g-speak spatial operating environment

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

The interface at the police lab in Minority Report could very well be a real-life computing choice in the near future with Oblong’s g-speak spatial operating environment. As this cool video shows, the user controls objects on the main screen with gestures, and even has the ability to bring them down from the wall to a desktop to be edited further.

From the website:

The SOE’s combination of gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels brings the first major step in computer interface since 1984; starting today, g-speak will fundamentally change the way people use machines at work, in the living room, in conference rooms, in vehicles. The g-speak platform is a complete application development and execution environment that redresses the dire constriction of human intent imposed by traditional GUIs. Its idiom of spatial immediacy and information responsive to real-world geometry enables a necessary new kind of work: data-intensive, embodied, real-time, predicated on universal human expertise.

And guess what? The similarity to Minority Report‘s vision isn’t an accident–one of the founders served as a science adviser to the film.