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John Underkoffler: Sci-Fi Interface Design in the Real World

John Underkoffler: Sci-Fi Interface Design in the Real World

FromMIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability


John Underkoffler: Sci-Fi Interface Design in the Real World

FromMIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability

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Length:
57 minutes
Released:
May 16, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

My guest today is John Underkoffler. As an early member of the MIT Media Lab, John was approached by Steven Spielberg and legendary world-builder Alex McDowell to help design the interface of the future for the film Minority Report.   The system John and the team designed became legendary for its vision and conceptual innovation. He’s gone on to help design many sci-fi computer interfaces including Iron Man’s JARVIS.   Building on these fictional computer interfaces, John has founded the company Oblong where he is bringing these collaborative, gestural, and tactile computer interfaces to life — enabling digital objects and data to live in the environment instead of the device.   We discuss John’s visionary science fiction design, his real-world incarnation of these interfaces, and go deep into many aspects of human-computer interaction.   More at: https://www.MindAndMachine.io
Released:
May 16, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

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Weekly interview show with people at the forefront of transformational technologies, scientific research, and bold new thinking that enables humans to operate at higher levels — better able to achieve whatever each person values most in life. This could be in fields as diverse as neuroscience, computer science, psychology, bio-tech, augmented reality, nutrition & fitness and so many more areas of pioneering work.