Interactive+UI


 * Film:** Minority Report (2002)
 * Director:** Steven Spielberg
 * Writers:** Philip K. Dick (short story), Scott Frank & Jon Cohen (screenplay)
 * Production Designer:** Alex McDowell
 * Consultant:** John Underkoffler, MIT


 * Technology:** g-speak SDK
 * Developer:** John Underkoffler, MIT Media Lab/ Oblong Industries
 * M. Arch I Thesis:** Mediating Mediums - The Digital 3D (2011)
 * Student:** Greg Tran

FILM: The gestural user interface or spatial operating environment portrayed in the film was developed with John Underkoffler as consultant, who was associated with MIT at the time. Even prior to the film, the foundation of the technology already had three decades of research at the MIT Media Lab. In Minority Report, the protagonist is able to move video and other data across a screen using gestural commands that is communicated via gloved hands. TECHNOLOGY: The g-speak platform is developed by Oblong Industries, a firm founded by John Underkoffler. The technology that was portrayed in the film has been improved and prototyped. Utilizing infrared cameras to detect the reflective beads that are embedded to the user's gloves, the interface allows for a different relationship between the body (the physical) and the virtual environment. Greg Tran's architectural thesis at the GSD proposes that this kind of technology can be applied to 3d modeling of building forms. Imagine Gund Hall with students waving their hands around frantically to prepare for final reviews.
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