Minority Report Comes to Life

If you’ve been waiting for that Minority Report-style interface to really come to fruition, you can finally exhale. One of the science advisors from the Steven Spielberg film — along with a team of other zany visionaries — has created an honest-to-goodness, real-world implementation of the computer systems seen in the movie.

Quite the visual treat.

It might be tiring to use, and it might cause all manner of repetitive stress injuries, but it’s hard not to be impressed by the richness of the interactions. It makes pointing and clicking look positively stone-age.

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Chris Clark is an interaction designer in Vancouver, BC. Chris hits the Twitter like Sonny hits trees, and rumor has it he likes Piña Coladas and getting caught in the rain.

This link and the associated commentary were first published here on November 15, 2008.