Anyone seen Minority Report?

By Cody Simms

Thanks to my friend Greg for sharing this with me.  Did you see Minority Report?  I only saw it once, a few years ago, at the theater.  But I seem to remember them being able to use a screen that let them manipulate shapes in 3D / virtual reality using their hands.  Seemed pretty futurist when I saw it, but here’s the real deal:

And according to the original post, the interaction technology has already been patented by Apple!  The design was developed at NYU.  I need to find out if my friend David’s program (he’s in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU) had anything to do with this…

One Response to “Anyone seen Minority Report?”

  1. DogBalls Blog Says:

    Tom Cruise has nothing on this..

    As reported by fellow Yahoo!, Kidsallright, fiction has become non-fiction in this product demo from the labs at NYC. Remember Minority Report (when Tom Cruise was less crazy)? Basically, you can drag, drop and *manipulate* images using a touch-screen….

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