Tag: Hiroshi Ishii

Present

Kinected. Conference

Post author By David
Post date April 6, 2011

There’s been a lot of Kinect-based experimentation lately, and, like so much of it, this new research project from the MIT Media Lab looks pretty cool. But it’s more than just another Kinect-hack — it’s full of intriguing ideas of how video-conferencing can adapt if it’s more than just a “dumb” carrier of video. It […]

Tags Hiroshi Ishii, Kinect, MIT Media Lab, videoconferencing

Past Present

Oblong and Before

Post author By David
Post date June 4, 2010

TED.com just posted a talk from this year’s TED2010 by John Underkoffler on his research into gesture interfaces. John is best known for his work on the interfaces in the film Minority Report but has since founded Oblong Industries. The talk demonstrates Oblong’s point-and-touch interface called g-speak. I have to admit, having never actually used the […]

Tags gesture, Hiroshi Ishii, John Underkoffler, Los Angeles, Minority Report, MIT Media Lab, Oblong, Tangible Media Group, TED