Saturday, August 15th, 2009...12:20 pm
Minority Report 2
Be warned- this is very video heavy post
A Saturday morning tweet by @betchaboy-
prompted me to refresh my memory…
I’ve blogged about this Oblong interface before, but I’d forgotten how slick it really was (apart from the naff gloves).
g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
Here it is being used to edit video/movie elements together.
oblong’s tamper system 1801011309 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
Breed it selectively with this…
a handful of these….
and don’t forget the “glass” wall at the beginning of the Microsoft Future Vision 2019 video. That’s not a glass wall, its a touch screen offering real time translation of voice and text. The children could be separated by half a world.
Is the combined DNA of these products a likely future tool of interactive education? Or will schools, as we know them, have ceased to exist by then?


