Minority report ui designer john underkoffler talks about the future of gestures. Minority report is a 2002 american science fiction action film directed by steven spielberg and loosely based on the 1956 short story the minority report by. But a decade on, how well has the films bold vision aged. Yet the question oblong often gets is how users can get the minority report software. En 2054, maintenant dans leurs trentaines, arthur a. How accurate were minority reports technology precogs. Mezzanine is being developed by john underkoffler, chief computer visionary behind the film minority report. The project, executive produced by devon franklin and tony. In 2006, underkoffler started oblong industries to build the next generation of computing interfaces, and in 2012, the company began selling commercial versions of the minority report interface. The 481 visual effects shots in the film were divided up, with the majority of the work going to san rafael, cabased. The core concept of the film is that psychics are able to predict. Viewed this way, minority report is an unmitigated disaster, a collection of hundreds of anomalies none of which can be resolved. Being able to demonstrate watson technology with spatial computing and infopresence has brought a powerful new dynamic to the way we work.
Download minority report season 01, episode 05 the present by seun badejo october 20, 2015. The technology proved so popular with fans of minority report that it. On june 21, 2002, steven spielberg and tom cruise unveiled the thriller minority report in theaters, where it became a summer hit and, later, an enduring scifi classic. In this interview for bbc click, oblong founder john underkoffler demonstrates the future and the present of sharing screens and processing power for intuitive, immersive collaboration. Oblong develops a collaborativeconferencing platform that allows users to share and control digital content from multiple screens. Rumpus, the collaborative toolkit from oblong industries, is now.
They are using realtime mocap data from optitracks cameras to make this possible. Minority report is brilliantly executed as pure cinema, both. At the time, the cult movie was recognized and praised for depicting a strong and powerful africanamerican woman. Along those lines, the plan right now is to release the entire gspeak platform which again, powers mezzanine as well as the minority reportstuff youve seen for noncommercial use this fall. But anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge. Tom cruise in minority report inspired lots of tech companies. This movie is quite long and activities could easily last an additional two days. Oblong technology completely destroys and disrupts the paradigm we have been living with for the last twenty years mandeep jawa director emerging workplace technologies, pwc. By now, were all used to getting web ads with some degree of personalization at a minimum, age and gender, and often much more. Download minority report 2002 movie full hd, divx, dvd. Minority report science advisor builds the most awesome. In 2006, underkoffler started oblong industries to build the next generation of.
Presentation for minority report interface that blew. Get the latest news, articles and company updates from oblong industries. Download minority report 2002 movie full hd, divx, dvd summary movie minority report 2002 in the year 2054 a. Minority report is one of the best real science fiction movies of all time. Oblong industries is a designdriven software and hardware company whose mission is to put a new user interface on every computer in the world. The first and thus far the most popular with downloaders is upcoming scifi crime drama minority report. Minority report ist ein usamerikanischer sciencefictionthriller des regisseurs steven. Using a pair of special gloves, tom cruises character can navigate and manipulate a vast array of digital images and information using intuitive gestures and movements. Six real gadgets minority report predicted correctly wired. Industries oblong industries, a company that makes conferencing rooms with screens controlled by gestures like the movie minority report. Minority report, lucifer and blindspot pilots leak online. If youve been waiting for that minority report style interface to really come to fruition, you can finally exhale. Now, per deadline, a tv adaption of the classic is in development at hulu with meagan good as the lead. Underkoffler is the mind behind the computer interfaces in the steven spielberg film minority report, and also mezzanine, the reallife version designed for businesses to collaborate across multiuser, multi.
Minority report season 01, episode 05 the present after dash and vega realize that vega is the victim in dashs latest vision, they team up with someone who played a. Minority report ui designer john underkoffler talks about the future. It was developed by max borenstein and it is a sequel adaptation to the 2002 film of the same name based on the 1956 science fiction short story the minority report by philip k. Oblong industries created the multitouch interface in minority report. It was produced by amblin television, paramount television whose film.
Underkoffler now serves as the chief scientist at oblong industries, and we spoke. Our products and solutions are built on the foundational work of oblong ceo john underkoffler, a pioneering researcher into spatial computing at the mit media lab. The movie minority report features one of the most discussed and influential user interfaces ever shown on the silver screen. As we discussed back in february, that interface is. You, too, can soon be like tom cruise in minority report. The guy who thought up minority reports gesture screens for s. Underkoffler demonstrated the interface called the gspeak. Scifi is turned into reality with technology guru from minority report. So those are the kinds of games that really crack me up. Scheduled to premiere on september 21, 2015, the steven spielberg sanctioned series. In this mornings web roundup, a company creating gesturerecognition technology expands its series b round. Get minority report dvd and bluray release date, movie poster and movie stats.
Minority report is a 2002 american science fiction action film directed by steven spielberg and loosely based on the 1956 short story the minority report by philip k. If youve already read the material on frequency, youre aware that information traveling from the future to the past can be as damaging or even more damaging in time travel terms than people doing so. They are developing a minority reportlike user interface and its. John underkoffler, who led the team that came up with the interface that tom cruises character used in the 2002 movie minority report, cofounded a company, oblong industries, to make the gestureactivated interface a reality using special gloves, mr. David schwartz, the companys vice president for sales, said we get calls from people in. Minority report is an american science fiction crime drama television series that aired on fox from september 21, to november 30, 2015.
Based on the international blockbuster film by executive producer steven spielberg and the first of his films to be adapted for television, minority report follows the unlikely partnership between a man haunted by the future and a cop haunted by her past, as they race to stop the worst crimes of the year 2065 before they happen. Dicks science fiction short story questions the idea of free will in a society so concerned with preventing crime that it incarcerates people based on the prediction of three extrasensory precogs, individuals who have had their esp so developed. Ceo has become a torrent of informationsharing within companiesat all levels. Oblong was founded in 2006 with the goal of delivering a better. And while that is just a movie, spielberg instructed the people working on the tech for it to really try to come up with what they. Minority report, set in 2054, benefits from chance timing. The future of work is rich in technology and drawbacks. John was plucked from academia by hollywoods alist to envision the future of humancomputer interface for films such as minority report, the hulk, and iron man. The department of homeland security has a precrime program that is reminiscent of philip k. Find out where minority report is streaming, if minority report is on netflix, and get news and updates, on decider. Instructors should feel free to add or remove activities as needed. John underkoffler founded oblong industries to build on a technology and design trajectory that began with fifteen years of foundational work at the mit media labaround spatial computing, display, and interactionand that continued with the advanced ui depictions he contributed to films including minority report and iron man.
My favourite scene, cinematographically speaking, in minority report. The big short 6 jared vennetts pitch to front point partners jenga blocks scene duration. The system is perfect until it comes after you john anderton is a top precrime cop in the late21st century, when technology can predict crimes before theyre committed. They use three gifted humans called precogs with special powers to see into the future and predict crimes beforehand. And when the film hit theaters in 2002, the gadgets seemed pretty unrealistic, too. Oblong s technology has roots in more than two decades of research at the mit media lab and was the direct basis for the computers depicted in the film minority report. In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest. Photo gallery of vintage soviet cars, including the zaz, which appears to be driving in reverse all the time. Wish you hadnt left out the birds eye shot of the spider robots going through the building. The futurepredicting technology that drives the premise of the scifi blockbuster minority report is silly at best. Des scientifiques su rveillent tous leurs faits et gestes. Oblong is combining spatial, immersive, and gesture technologies, brought to you by john underkoffler, who was the science advisor for the tom cruise film minority report. One of the science advisors from the steven spielberg film along with a team. The cinematography of minority report janusz kaminski.
Visual effects the visual effects challenges of minority report were not in the number of effects shots, but in the detailed elements and compositing of those elements that would need to be perfect to create a seamless representation of spielbergs vision. Dick, esp science fiction short story published in 1956, philip k. John anderton is a top precrime cop in the late21st century, when technology can predict crimes before theyre committed. Tell the class they are going to be watching a movie. Steven spielbergs scifi film minority report served up a captivating and thoroughly convincing look at what the future might hold. Minority report, the movie, takes place in 2054, for example. Minority report 2 hours and 25 minutes movie 2002 in the year 2054 a. Oblong develops a collaborativeconferencing platform that allows users to share. There are also videoconferencing technologies in development such as mezzanine by oblong industries which uses multiple screens and spatial user interfaces to allow people in different locations to collaborate and. John underkoffler, ceo of oblong industries, was science advisor on minority report. Futuristic minority report computer interface makes a real.