Oblong Industries

Oblong Industries is a computer user-interface company based in Los Angeles, CA which develops conference room telecollaboration systems which respond to gestural input.[1][2]

History

Oblong Industries was founded in 2006 by John Underkoffler and Kwindla Kramer.[3] The founders and the company's technology are based on Underkoffler’s research at the MIT Media Lab. Underkoffler designed the computer user-interface system in the Minority Report (film).[4][5][6] In 2009 Boeing's Virtual Warfare Center began adopting the technology.[7] Oblong now sells the commercial version of that system for conference room collaboration.[8]

Products

The company's core technology platform, which sits atop the linux-based server operating system Ubuntu as a distributed operating system, is a spatial operating environment (SOE) called g-speak. It is a software and hardware platform that combines gestural input, networking, and graphical output systems into a unified SOE to form a collaborative working environment.[9][10]

The company's flagship product is a g-speak based conference room collaboration system called Mezzanine, a collaborative superset of telepresence, webconferencing, videoconferencing, and teleconferencing called "infopresence".[11][4] The product is a spatial, networked, multi-user, multi-screen, multi-device (including mobile collaboration) computing environment that includes the use of a gestural interface, as well as, other traditional (pointing device) & non-traditional (iOS-based mobile devices) user-interface input devices.[10] The non-traditional gestural user-interface is an ultrasonic tracking system composed of handheld spatial wands, ultrasonic emitters, radio receiver, and a USB interface card hosted in the system's T5600 server.

References

  1. ↑ "Why developers should start choosing conscience over profit". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
  2. ↑ Thursday, March 8th, 2012 (2012-03-08). "Foundry Group Leads New Round In Oblong Industries To Push Computing Into "The Minority Report" Age". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
  3. ↑ "Oblong Industries, Inc.: Private Company Information - Businessweek". Investing.businessweek.com. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
  4. 1 2 Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 (2011-06-23). "Oblong Has Built The Future Of Computing. I've Seen It. Used It. It's Beautiful". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
  5. ↑ ""Minority Report" in the Office: Oblong's Long Road Back to Boston". Xconomy. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
  6. ↑ "Futuristic software from Minority Report is real". Fox News. 2012-07-23. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
  7. ↑ "Boeing defense".
  8. ↑ "Oblong story".
  9. ↑ "PATRICK SOON-SHIONG INNOVATION AWARDS" (PDF). Los Angeles Business Journal. November 26, 2012. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
  10. 1 2 Albrecht, Chris (2013-02-18). "Grabbing data and pushing pixels, a visit with Oblong Industries (video) — Tech News and Analysis". Gigaom.com. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
  11. ↑ "Telepresence Options".

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