The “Break it Down” Blog

In collaboration with the scientific advisers from the Steven Spielberg film, Oblong Industries has created g-speak; a glove-controlled interactive display room of sorts very similar to the one seen in Minority Report.

Simple hand gestures like sweep, tilt, pan and so on are there as well as things like “thumb-down” to indicate a grab and thumb-up to indicate a drop.

The rendering platform is optimized to handle huge amounts of data (think ultra-high res images or satellite data) making it easier for analysts to dig their way through this information in an intuitive, visual fashion.

Given the spatially-focused representation of the data (Kanji characters in one clip) you could imagine the application of such an approach could accelerate learning for different types of topics when forcing someone to visually navigate an information space.

My guess is that something like this doesn’t immediately make a lot of sense for analytical industries as most of that work is done by algorithms right now, but possibly for deep/bleeding edge research where not enough is known about the data to develop mining algorithms around it and basic human discovery has to take place by the investigating scientists first.

Thanks Endgadget!