BeamOne and Tom Cruise: Holographic User Interfaces

January 26, 2006

My colleague Pat Barnard sent me a link to the web site for Atlantex Corp. which develops holographic user interfaces, such as this one:

This interface is called BeamOne, and Atlantex describes its operation as follows:

"Simply 'touch' the image floating in front of you to dial a cell phone, control medical equipment, change the channel, and more .... Operating as a simple 4 button keypad, BeamOne sends programmable keystrokes to your PC via the USB port."

Folks at TMC sometimes tease me because I tell them that for my next computer I want one like Tom Cruise's in Minority Report, which is operated holographically using virtual reality gloves. Here's a shot from the movie: