This seems to be old, but I only recently found out about it. Pushing the limits of the human-machine interaction?

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

Oblong is a company founded by MIT's John Underkoffler, the guy who's behind the famous SF UI concepts from Minority Report. Its mission is to make information more spatial, thus using VR techniques to manipulate it and communicate with computers. What you see here is a product of roughly 15 years of work and research.

More technically, we are talking about a hands position and gesture tracking software platform, with 0.1mm precision (!!) at 100 Hz, fully supporting two-handed and multi-user interface implementations. g-speak comes with core library functions allowing to scale in complete transparency across clusters, as well as to easily integrate legacy applications into the environment. It also implements a complete abstraction from display devices (doesn't mind which device or devices you use) and a specific 3D object semantics for easily manipulating scene entities.

Looks cool and futuristic, for real! More clips available on Vimeo.

[ via CrunchGear ]