‘Minority Report’ adviser John Underkoffler to ponder user interfaces at GamesBeat Summit 2018

We are delighted to report that our latest speaker for GamesBeat 2018 is John Underkoffler the CEO of Oblong Industries and science advisor for the landmark sci-fi film Minority Report. He did such a great job in both a presentation and a visionary panel on augmented reality that we invited him back for another visit to the future.

Long before the body suit of Ready Player One, Underkoffler helped envision Minority Report’s scene where actor Tom Cruise uses “data gloves” and gesture controls to manipulate a transparent computer. To bring that vision to reality, he founded Oblong Industries in 2006, and launched Mezzanine for enterprise collaborators in 2012. Oblong’s technological and design trajectories build on 15 years of foundational work at the MIT Media Lab, where Underkoffler was responsible for innovations in real-time computer graphics systems, optical and electronic holography, large-scale visualization techniques, and the I/O Bulb and Luminous Room systems.