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John Underkoffler points to the future of UI

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http://www.ted.com Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak -- the real-life version of the film's eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow's computers will be controlled?

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  • If necessary, I can easily use my computer for 8-10 hours without a break.

    Using this stupid "Minority Report" system you would struggle after just 30 minutes!

  • My problem with this is that he said Macintosh had it's own OS written from scratch.

    OS X was not written from scratch, it is Unix(more specifically BSD) based.

    While almost the entirety of the OS was developed by apple by it didn't start off from nothing.

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  • A microphone is also a UI, so how about moving it away from your mouth next time so I don't hear every hard consonant you say come at me with a pop?!

  • Touch my mouse and you die

  • That must've been when Bill Gates have the go ahead for Microsoft to commence "Project Natal"

  • very interesting thanks

  • good work here

  • kkk i was a joke .. is the height of technology perhaps more interesting than the D 3, or even hyper virtual space .. because we have become accustomed over time to imagine but in 3-D view in 2 D. But with these tools can be agile and mix the reasoning in a new plane interface ideas and quick actions.

  • its good but still uses screens they need to use holograms for 3d manipulation this would be good.

  • @vintagebarcellos its not windows so it most likely doesn't need it lol

  • @zoneykid he is talking about the overlay was build from scratch its core is unix yes but the rest of it is not.

  • @MisterDogshit Only difference is that ^ is much cooler

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