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