{"id":10216,"date":"2010-12-13T13:08:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T13:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=10216"},"modified":"2010-12-13T23:14:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T23:14:35","slug":"microsoft-kinect-meets-minority-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/12\/13\/microsoft-kinect-meets-minority-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinect meets Minority Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A group at MIT has created a hand-detection system using Microsoft\u2019s Kinect<\/a> sensor device.<\/p>\n

Researchers at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory<\/a> at MIT have modified it so that it resembles the hand gesture interface imagined in Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report<\/a> (2002).<\/p>\n

Based around a camera, Kinect allows users to control and interact with the Xbox 360<\/a> console without the need to touch a controller using gestures, spoken commands, or presented objects and images.<\/p>\n

The team at MIT created a hand detection system using the Kinect camera, which recognises the position of the palms and fingers of the users.<\/p>\n

Systems Robotics Engineer Garratt Gallagher has released this video:<\/p>\n

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Minority Report is about a \u201cprecrimes\u201d unit (led by Tom Cruise), who prevent murders before they occur in Washington 2054.<\/p>\n

One of the ways they do this is through an interface which allows them to see details of crimes about to be committed:<\/p>\n

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Part of the reason it has proved so prescient is that Spielberg consulted several experts for a three-day think-tank back in 1999.<\/p>\n

He was keen to depict plausible ideas for the futuristic setting and one of the advisors was John Underkoffler<\/a>, who designed the interface used in the film.<\/p>\n

Back in February he spoke at TED<\/a> about his work on the film and the influence it continues to have on user interface design.<\/p>\n

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Among the other things ‘predicted’ by the film include personalised ads (Facebook<\/a>, Adsense<\/a>), 3D video (CNN hologram<\/a>) and even insect robots<\/a> (micro-robotic systems<\/a>).<\/p>\n

[Via Engadget<\/a>]<\/p>\n

> MIT Computer Science and AI Lab<\/a>
\n> The Guardian on Why Minority Report was spot on<\/a>
\n> The technology in Minority Report<\/a> at Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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