My latest geeky project: a Minority Report type of desktop control for Linux using the Leap Motion  ;)

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Minority Report meets Microsoft Surface

iDesk Concept, Provides A Glimpse Of A Future Workspace

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Minority Report arrives with Oblong - Mind blowing computer/human interface Minority Report arrives with Oblong (Part I) -- Mind blowing computer/human interface #Video #interface #MinorityReport

Speaking of #MinorityReport   ...

Recently announced face recognition and rewards system Facedeals is raising all sorts of eyebrows, so here's a little more background on the device that's certainly coming to a store near you. A new device and platform called Facedeals created quite a bit of Minority Report buzz. The product, designed by integrated advertising industry RedPepper, is a camera put into retailers that scans consumers faces, identifies their Facebook profiles, checks them in, and can then offer discounts ...

Would you like to know more_?
http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/facedeals/

Watching "Phillip K. Dick: Von Total Recall bis Minority Report" on N24 - so interesting! Too bad I have to work at the same time^^

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Minority Report Android Wear Watch Face

This will be a great Android Wear app. A Minority Report watch.

The alarm set to time to termination can be time to flight or time to [meeting] - taking data from Now or whatever you named your alarm.
The data displayed can scroll through battery level, time to event, heart rate (where available) and more.
The logo in the center and the circle of stars is the logo of Pre-Crime. It can be selectable to avatars or company logos from a photo album.

#androidwear   #androidwearapps   #minorityreport  

#jeudiscifi #minorityreport

Surgeons Embrace 'Minority Report Reality' Full Text in URL
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Gesture Tech A Reality For Surgeons

Once solely the preserve of console gamers with a penchant for dancing, gesture control is fast becoming as ubiquitous as touch.

Interacting with technology with a wave of a hand is both natural and intuitive - and it's only now emerging just how many potential applications gesture tech has.

It is already being used in operating theatres, thanks to the Leap Motion device using software from TedCas.

Surgeons often need to consult X-rays or MRI scans during a procedure, but because an operating room is a sterile environment, the surgeon either has to ask his assistant to hold and manipulate the imagery, or do it themselves and scrub up again - a process that can take 10 minutes.

Not great, when time is of the essence.

#Surgeons #GestureTech #MinorityReport 

#personofinterest is #minorityreport meets #eagleeye but where is Tom Cruise and Shia LaBeouf? #cbs #fallshows2011

I'm all for Augmented Reality!
#augmentedreality #ui #uidesign #minorityreport

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Minority Report + Kinect = Leap gestural spatial interface

When I first watched this video earlier today it had around 300 views. It now boasts 50,000+ views and climbing. The reason: it looks like John Underkoffler's Minority Report interface — with your bare hands.

Leap says that its spatial interface technology is "more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen ... 200 times more accurate than anything else on the market ... can distinguish your individual fingers and track your movements down to a 1/100th of a millimeter."

Those are some impressive claims.

I want to believe that Leap is as good as its claims. But I wonder how practical it will be given the "gorilla arm" problem: Fatigue and pain caused by holding the arms away from the body for extended periods of time. Humans just aren't built to do that. One would need superhuman strength and endurance to use such a spatial interface for an entire work day.

Using an interface designed around fine, repetitive finger movements and motor control is begging for a repetitive strain injury.

The lack of tactile feedback for tasks such as writing, drawing or painting seemingly make it less than ideal for such tasks. Still, it's an intriguing idea.

And, yes, I pre-ordered it before I finished watching the video. :)

http://j.mp/leapmotionvideo

#leap #gesture #interface #device #ergonomics #fingertracking #handtracking #ixd #minorityreport #motion #spatial #touchless #ux #video

Leap : la technologie de Minority Report pour 70 $ http://www.geekorner.com/2012/05/21/leap-technologie-minority-report-70-dollar-motion-control/ #Leap #MinorityReport

Interactive Digital Signage: Minority Report is finally reality!
At least the model looks a bit like Tom Cruise ;)

#kinect #digitalsignage #minorityreport #wowgoogleplushasanicehashtagthingy
+Gregor Dorfbauer +Robert Aistleitner +Mathias Frey

The 'Minority Report' Interface is Far from Practical

It's hard to believe that Minority Report was released 8 years ago. The Steven Spielberg film, while being a perfectly serviceable science fiction thriller and adaptation of Phillip K. Dick's work, is still most remembered in the technology community for introducing gesture-based computing to the masses. The one scene where Tom Cruise's character controls a computer and manipulates video playback by waving his hands in front of a screen stands out as an eye-opening moment in cinematic-technology history. It's far and away the most referenced film scene in modern tech journalism--bloggers can't seem to help but allude to it whenever any new touch or gesture-based interface innovation debuts.

presentation about g-speak and the future of the user interface at the TED2010 conference this past February. He demonstrated gesture-based interfaces and discussed its advantages and potential for growth. He showed off the non-movie version of g-speak to a packed auditorium, complete with image browsing and video editing.

The upshot is that while these kinds of interfaces may be relatively more intuitive than a keyboard or remote control, there is no universal or innate standard for computing gestures--users are still going to have to learn a whole new lexicon of actions.

Article Link: http://www.tested.com/tech/concepts/372-why-the-minority-report-interface-is-far-from-practical/

#sciencefiction #scifi #minorityreport #tomcruise #gesture  

Do you remember of Precrime units and de precogs in minority report ? Well, we might not be so far from it: some quite disturbing research studies show you can very accuratly predict mouvement of individuals using mobile network data http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/08/08/cellphone_tracking_what_happens_when_our_smartphones_can_predict_our_every_move_.html, and you could do even better if you combine that with twitter and facebook data http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~musolesm/papers/lbsn12.pdf.
Getting a bit more data in the mix (bank accounts movements, surveillance cameras and crime logs typically) and lattest pattern recognition and self-learning algorythms, we are not so far from being able to predict crimes.
Therefore all the ethic challenges raised by the film are becoming very relevant.
Once again SF writters are way ahead from philosophers and politics ! #minorityreport   #bigbrother  

Minority Report coming true...

#surveillance #surveillancesociety #minorityreport

Spielberg bringing 'Minority Report' to TV? Steven Spielberg is reportedly developing a #MinorityReport pilot for Amblin Entertainment. We can't wait for the PreCrime Unit to solve murders before they happen. My latest on +CNET 

La tecnologia di Minority Report sta diventando realtà... #LeapMotion #MinorityReport

Future of UI #gspeak #mezzanine #minorityreport #kinect #oblong #GestureRecognition #TomCruise
John Underkoffler points to the future of UI

Just in case you missed this.... #minorityreport #preventivedetention