This is what we've all been waiting for...

[Living_Fiction]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/ ... 2311.shtml

Gesture Glove Not Science Fiction

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23, 2005

CBS) John Underkoffler is putting the "G" in gee whiz. In a downtown L.A. warehouse, he and a caffeinated team of computer wizards are conjuring up the next big thing: gesture technology.

As CBS News Correspondent Bill Witaker reports, the latest in computer technology is the G-Speak Gestural Technology System, a glove that is faster and more logical than a mouse and keyboard.

Using the technology, you can move anything anywhere on the screen.

"All one needs to do to do that is to point to it and sort of grab it," says Underkoffler

It gives new meaning to "point and click."

If you want to scan ahead on video, you can just point.

People that try the new technology tend to get the hang of it in a few seconds.

Because the technology first appeared in the sci-fi movie "Minority Report," many assume it's science fiction.

"The movie was actually based on work that we were performing at MIT," Underkoffler says. So it wasn't really science fiction.

"It was only masquerading as science fiction. Now, it's science fact," he says.

Like a fog screen that hangs an image in midair, they're part of a new generation of mind-blowing technology that is taking a big step into the future. And it's not just some techie gee whiz -- as the outside world is discovering.

Col. Bruce Sturk runs the extremely high-tech battlelab at Langley Air Force Base and was inspired by the technology in "Minority Report."

"As a military person, I said 'My goodness, how great would it be if we had something similar to that?'," Sturk says.

He might soon. Defense contractor Raytheon is financing the gesture technology team, seeing potential fighting terrorists by scanning and matching images, and fighting wars by coordinating the flood of intelligence and making it instantly intelligible in the heat of battle.

Retired Air Force Gen. Gerald F. Perryman, Jr. with Raytheon says customers are eager for the technology.

"Our customers are very interested in decision quality actionable information," Perryman says. "That's their term. They want speed and accuracy in getting that information."

Underkoffler sees less lethal uses, also.

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[Angstrom]

[drush]

or not.

[AdamJay]

what a coincidence, my mother works at Raytheon.

[Living_Fiction]

I find it ironic that everyone is so wanting "Multi Touch", but a glove is out the question? It's basically the same thing...What a bunch of close minded people. I thought the people on Ableton Live would have been more open minded to the idea. Afterall, Ableton Live is all about "innovation". Don't turn into another Vinyl DJ crowd...Keep your mind open to new ideas.

[Robert Henke]

I.
oh yeah, eighteen year old kids sitting in a tank in bagdad or where the worlds leading nation wants them, listening to loud heavy metal from their ipod, wearing data gloves to direct missiles and watching burning targets stumbling out of collapsing buildings, indeed another inovation we all need.
II.
were would science be without the millitary. the knobs on one of my favourite old instruments are coming from B52 bombers, since they were the best ones and they still work after 20 yeras.
III.
one of my tracks was used by japanese tv station for their 9.11. news. collapsing buildings with monolake drones. they probably thought that smal independent label will never realise this. ( they pay no royalties ...)

what is my point ? i don`t know, maybe just some general feeling of a very bizzare and sad world from time to time.

Robert

[forge]

what is my point ? i don`t know, maybe just some general feeling of a very bizzare and sad world from time to time.

Robert

Bizarre world - always. Sad world - depends how you are feeling when you read it!

Sometimes I've read something that's made depressed and then I can look at the same thing another day with a different mood and it will look completely different.

I'm trying to learn detachment and i keep reminding myself we're all just animals who've had relatively stable environmental conditions for enough millennia to evolve into gesture glove designers - about as far as you can get from figuring out if you use a rock the nut shell breaks more easily.

There will always be one who then decides they'd rather smash the other guy in the back of the head with his rock and steal his already cracked nut.

I guess those of us nut crackers just need to carry on ways of protecting our skulls when our backs are turned!

[Angstrom]

wow, it turned into a damn wake in here ..
what the hell happened - a company just announced "Active Raving" gloves and everybody's gone all mournful. Very strange.

Of course the military fund all the big investments, we are the human race !

Remember our motto : "Xenophobia, violence and innovation until the end"


sure we suck, sure we are stupid and sure our storage media last less long with every iteration

stone tablet : 10,000 years
Compact Disk : 10 years


but damn, I won't let those commie pinko liberal homosex values of mine stop me buying a pair of ActiveRaving gloves the very instant they appear in the shops.

[supster]

I.
oh yeah, eighteen year old kids sitting in a tank in bagdad or where the worlds leading nation wants them, listening to loud heavy metal from their ipod, wearing data gloves to direct missiles and watching burning targets stumbling out of collapsing buildings, indeed another inovation we all need.
II.
were would science be without the millitary. the knobs on one of my favourite old instruments are coming from B52 bombers, since they were the best ones and they still work after 20 yeras.
III.
one of my tracks was used by japanese tv station for their 9.11. news. collapsing buildings with monolake drones. they probably thought that smal independent label will never realise this. ( they pay no royalties ...)

what is my point ? i don`t know, maybe just some general feeling of a very bizzare and sad world from time to time.

Robert

.... so .. does this mean the touchscreen Live interface is totally out of the question then

hehe

ps. yeah, i feel ya, it can be ...
.

[Diskclaimer]

eighteen year old kids sitting in a tank listening to loud heavy metal from their ipod, wearing data gloves to direct missiles and watching burning targets stumbling out of collapsing buildings

poetry

GO RObert GO RObert !!!

Hey what ever happend to that hologram type display thingy on which you could move stuff around by a touch - drag?

[Robert Henke]

Hi Angstrom,
I think what I wanted to express was my never ending irritation that the motor of techonlogy and innovation since the beginning of mankind was military. And that musical technology as we use it also is connected to this, if we want it or not.
Our instruments do at least partly exist because their technology has been developped for millitary reasons first. Our music may be used in a context which also is conneced to the more darker sides of human interaction. I actually never met more people who used to work for "national defense" then in the music industry. Of course this does not stop me from using the instruments but I find it interesting enough to think about these connectons from time to time.

Oh yes, and of course I would want to have a touchscreen or what ever comes up in the future, to control Live in a more flexible and intuitive way !!!

Robert

[Diskclaimer]

/\/\/\/\/\
This guy is so chilled out he's not *even* worried about how his gig will go tonight

[The Offender]

we can all thank hitler for giving us the nuemann microphones. damn straight
all heil

[Robert Henke]

I *am* worried, this is why i am sitting here, waiting for the system administator to come and get my ports transparent........
So, instead of eating my finger nails I read the forum.

Robert

[leisuremuffin]

eating your nails????

Have Crito cook you a snack! He's got lots of talent in the kitchen.

.lm. (fat guy with beard)