Today, sometimes science fiction shown in movie gives an idea to develop a new technology. May be some of you remember the Minority Report scenes in which Tom Cruise and others use their hands to manipulate data on giant computer screens…

One man is on a mission to bring that gestural interface technology to every personal computer. A famous scientist, John Underkoffler (the founder and chief of Oblong Industries) give a sign by saying “The mouse has had a good run, but it’s time to say good-bye”. His company has an operating system, based on human hand gesturing, that enables the user to explore in a 3D plane. The system responds to the pitch, roll and yaw movements that come naturally to the hand and works with cameras that track the positions of targets placed on gloves.

Indeed, he was inspired by his work as the science and technology adviser to Steven Spielberg for the film Minority Report. The team created the futuristic Washington headquarters portrayed in the film. When it came to the gestural interface, the production team’s research and development came just shy of actually building it.

Sometimes the filmmakers–the science fiction writers–imagine stuff before the engineers do, and there is a feedback loop between fiction and science that seems to be influencing each others.

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