Oblong's g-speak: the 'Minority Report' OS brought to life
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted November 14th 2008 6:43PM
posted November 14th 2008 6:43PM
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coolest fucking thing I've seen in a long time....
well second coolest I guess... The douche above me must be the coolest...
I have just completely annihilated a perfectly good pair of pants and an office chair.
@jerimaih
is it YOUR first xD
Not my first, but it was your mom's first Jeremiah
How could it be someone's mom's first? Wouldn't it have to be at least her second?
IVF could make it so that it's her first. Or she could be an adoptive parent.
Maybe I was claiming to be his Dad? Or maybe it was meant as her first Jeremiah...not her first time
Why you gotta flame a brother for being on top - unlike your patriots LMAO!
Did you get your wee hopes up of being first and there I was? Sorry.
You can be first if it makes you feel better (first looser).
And the name calling - anonymity makes you, well, a bigger douche.
All I said that was first was vagina...then I said I was kaikai's mom's first Jeremiah, but that is only because 99% of people like momma jokes. Your the one that was not only lame, tried to defend said lameness.
jeremiah, I am your father.. *hmppph voosh hmpph voosh*
but she was so fat Jabba was rolling sideways in and out of her vagina
I shit my pants!
Never thought i'ld live to see the day when i can no longer sit to use a computer
thx
these replies are getting consistently less in intelligent, but whatever.
"this is g-speak" - well this is the coolest f***ing interface I've ever seen. Its so intuitive. If only they can refine it so that its easy to use, and works practically universally, I could see the being a very common interface for many technologies, not just computers, by around 2015.
just imagine playing a fps game on their setup. If the controls were properly integrated, it would be almost complete in-game immersion. This kind of thing keeps me really excited about the future.
Next up: The Johnny Mnemonic goggles and gloves internet navigation system.
i would love to see that myself, but that deals in static field manipulation i believe, something i don't think is very useful real-world yet. otherwise we'd see the door panels used in sci-fi, like dead space :P
Where do the wood balls pop out?
screw the wood balls, i want to know who makes the music they used in that video! i love good ambient stuff :)
@Chris
I'm not saying it is... but it really reminds me of something Clint Mansell would compose.
Chris, as a Porcupine Tree fan that makes sense :)
Ever hear of IEM?
Best post so far. Why go to all the trouble of designing the Minority Report Criminal Finder (TM), if you don't have some 'savants' in a giant petri dish feeding you suspects on elegantly carved and polished wooden balls?
@Chris - I'm pretty sure it's a track by Murcof but I can't remember which one - http://www.last.fm/music/Murcof
Actually - my mistake, it's not Murdof, it's Deaf Center - "Lamp Mein" - http://www.last.fm/music/Deaf+Center/_/Lamp+Mien
Right under the wood penis.
OMG that is insane...Well, Hello :)
wow, just wow
i am tired of the whole "minority report"
because that was sort of rediculous, but this, this is something much better
i can't believe this is real
IT can't believe YOU'RE real....
think about it....
then pray.
Wow, that was profound. Can you imagine this integrated with a video game? Unbelievably awesome.
This is indeed mindblowing. I would love to try this out.
hmmm. i want it but.... mouse + keyboard will reign until direct thoughts are translated into GUI manip.
"...i want it but.... mouse + keyboard will reign until direct thoughts are translated into GUI manip."
WRONG. They already have achieved that! Thought translated to mouse movement for quadriplegics!
Reference 1 - 60 minutes: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4564186n
Reference 2 - CNET reports 60 minutes: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-10080852-76.html
ultimately, you will be plugged into "the matrix" running on windows XP
:)
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1886349
no need for hand gestures, kb, and mouse crap
The Matrix running XP? What happens when The Matrix gets a BSOD :/?
@ Drake
Yes, but why think about moving a mouse when you can just think "save", "minimize", "delete"... Come to think of it... I can't wait to see the format war on the "thought" API?!? I'll get to work on "mindJAX" now ;)
@Valicore: it will be a Green Screen of Death, not blue.
I...
....
...wow.
Where Do I get MINE?
"computer [a] interface"?
That makes no sense. [a] computer interface, possibly...
Either that or it's almost midnight on Friday and I'm so drunk I can't read properly.
Maybe I'm just obtuse, but I can't see the killer app for this. You can have my mouse and keyboard when you take them from my cold, dead, carpal tunnel-riddled hands.
CNNs "Magic wall" 2012?
Unless we can find some real-world Minority Report use for it, I see it as either A) Some bodacious film editing environment, or B) A presentation/performance OS. That globe at the end of the video really showed that to me. People could display business data through the interface. Again, it would almost be a performance, seeing how the interface looks to have a steep learning curve.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is not a dependency of keyboard and mouse use.
www.colemak.com
Think about this... It is the ultimate gaming system. It puts you in the game. You move through the environment... Interact with objects. They could put sensors on the weapons, and then it would be actual trigger reactions and actual aiming. It would be awesome for a first person shooter.
OH MY FUCKING GOD
I always wondered what nerdgasm was. Now I know.
Feels good, don't it?
The new speed record for going from Huh? to WANT has just been bested
Funniest thing I read all day.
Copy/paste?
You, my friend have just won the internet.
That took me a second. But yes, best comment ever.