Sci-Fi Based Scenarios: Minority Report’s GUI
Delivering “immersive experiences” is a hot subject in today’s market. IBM talks about it as part of their strategy involving virtual environments (e.g. SecondLife), becoming the next generation Internet.
Microsoft has recently launched Surface. A proof of concept prototype was showcased at the company’s innovation events earlier in the year. I think it will take just one more step for the two, innovative GUIs and virtual worlds, to merge in a “single immersive experience”.
Microsoft’s Surface: provides effortless interaction with digital content through natural hand gestures, touch and physical objects. It is meant to change the way people interact with all kinds of everyday information, making it easier to handle and mashup photos, maps, menus, etc. in an intuitive and user friendly fashion.
EON TouchLight: Microsoft licensed technology, code-named “TouchLight,” which it developed in its Redmond labs to EON Reality, a provider of interactive visual content-management software. Users can physically interact with 3-D visual content.
Perceptive Pixel: this company was founded by Jeff Han just last year as a spinoff of the NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences to focus on the most advanced multi-touch system. This tools enables users to easily manipulate complex applications.
Apple’s iPhone multitouch: Apple claims this is the most revolutionary interface since the mouse. The iPhone features a large multi-touch display enabling users to manage and control everything, being able to use several fingers at a time: “so you can glide through albums with Cover Flow, flip through photos and email them with a touch, or zoom in and out on a section of a web page — all by simply using iPhone’s multi-touch display”.
Minority Report, the movie: the film is based on a Philip K. Dick’s novel portraying the consequences of predicting the future and acting in the present to change its course. This 2002 movie features a user interface which, based on the above products, is becoming a market reality some years later.
References: Microsoft’s Surface; Microsoft’s Popfly; Eon’s Touchlight press release; Perceptive Pixel;
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June 6, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Scenarios have been a powerful tool that have been used by military and business planners got a very long time. We have seen website developers using Bitrix http://www.bitrixsoft.com/ a web content management development to play out market facing scenarios.
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March 16, 2008 at 5:35 pm