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Re:How 'Minority Report' Trapped Us in a World of Bad Interf... by samstave on Thursday November 17, 2016 @02:05PM (#12980356)
what happened to "Oblong" technologies (the guys who actually did the minority report UI/UX and turned it into a conference room app/system)
Re:How 'Minority Report' Trapped Us in a World of Bad Interf... by sandover on Thursday November 17, 2016 @03:09PM (#12980990)
Oblong sells a conference room product and we also do custom work.

I work at Oblong and recently gave a short (unofficial) talk which covers some past and current activities.

https://creativemornings.com/talks/brandon-harvey/1

My favorite sentence from the piece is "there’s a huge gap between what looks good on film and what is natural to use". Yep!

Re:How 'Minority Report' Trapped Us in a World of Bad Interf... by PT_2014 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @02:26PM (#12980581)
They morphed their high end concept stuff into smart meeting room and team collaboration tool platform called Mezzanine (- see http://www.oblong.com/) which is sold into large enterprise class customers e.g IBM, SAP, Accenture, NASA, GE etc.
Re:How 'Minority Report' Trapped Us in a World of Bad Interf... by rbanffy on Thursday November 17, 2016 @02:49PM (#12980797)
I kept imagining the kind of BS the actors are talking about the fake graphics.
Re:How 'Minority Report' Trapped Us in a World of Bad Interf... by quote on Thursday November 17, 2016 @02:28PM (#12980613)
They recently received 65M funding. You can supposedly buy that stuff.
Re:How 'Minority Report' Trapped Us in a World of Bad Interf... by kristopolous on Thursday November 17, 2016 @03:05PM (#12980948)
if you thought the interface was bad, try programming with their software stack.
Re:How 'Minority Report' Trapped Us in a World of Bad Interf... by tomjakubowski on Friday November 18, 2016 @06:36AM (#12986028)
Interesting. Would you care to elaborate?
Re:How 'Minority Report' Trapped Us in a World of Bad Interf... by kristopolous on Friday November 18, 2016 @05:37PM (#12990657)
I worked there for 2 years. My comment was mostly jeering and being silly. It would be really bad form to speak ill of them in any substantive way. All I can say is that they punch above their weight.