One of the founders of Oblong Industries served as a consultant on the movie Minority Report, and the computing interface you see in that movie was developed based on work he did at MIT. Now his company have made it a reality. Really. Check this video,
I’m sure that the data and the input method is strongly tied together but in a few years this is going to be truly amazing. Of course, we’ve been seeing this kind of thing in fiction and movies for quite a while (Johnny Mnemonic springs to mind), but if we finally have real world applications then that’s quite exciting.
I would dearly love to have a go at one of these, although I’ve got no idea what I’d do (probably write a blog post, I guess not the most efficient method).
Nice. Have you seen the interface Tony Stark uses in the Iron Man movie? That’s kind of the next step up from the stuff in Minority Report.
I could imagine it all being very useful for designers, editors and the like, but for writing a novel or just day to day work? Nah. I want natural voice input with no training needed and I want it on my phone.
Why is it that people can understand me but software struggles with my flat, monotone voice? 😉