kenfrederick: hands on. continued.

hands on. continued.

a couple of months ago i posted about how "digital and physical worlds is becoming ever blurrier." and a future which is uses physically interactive interfaces.

in this interview with ben fry at creative review he talked about a start up called oblong whose founders worked as consultants for minority report. they're thesis work was around creating the interface that you see in the movie.

Oblong Industries is the developer of the g-speak spatial operating environment.

The SOE's combination of gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels brings the first major step in computer interface since 1984; starting today, g-speak will fundamentally change the way people use machines at work, in the living room, in conference rooms, in vehicles. The g-speak platform is a complete application development and execution environment that redresses the dire constriction of human intent imposed by traditional GUIs. Its idiom of spatial immediacy and information responsive to real-world geometry enables a necessary new kind of work: data-intensive, embodied, real-time, predicated on universal human expertise

i've been intrigued by RFID lately as well. i have some rudimentary ideas i want to play with using arduino some of which i've read about in making things talk which i bought at the maker faire.

this is a pretty interesting use of RFID and multi-touch surface at the 2009 cannes festival.

at some point RFID identification (or something similar) will be more prevalent, if not the dominant way in which we identity ourselves, and it will only enhance our experience with immersive physical interfaces, etc. however, some of the privacy issues will obviously have to resolved going forward.

all of this makes me excited about a future where stuff can be created virtually using hands.

yet another last minute addition to this onslaught of creating things more physically and intuitively. rhonda is built using OpenFrameworks.

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