From the debut of its spatial interface in the movie Minority Report, Oblong’s g-speak is now a technology deployed throughout the world—and itcan be viewed at InfoComm MEA.
g-speak™ is Oblong's core technology platform. g-speak is used today to address high-value, real-time, big-data, and big-workflow challenges in applications such as military simulation, logistics and supply chain management, and energy grid management.
The g-speak platform enables the development of multi-user, multi-screen, multi-device, spatial, networked applications.
Oblong also offers full-scale g-speak development environments that include high-end hardware for multi-user gestural input and object tracking.
g-speak is deployed to solve real-world problems, including:
- Integration of large screens and multiple computers into room- and building-scale work environments
- Analytics workflows integrating multiple data sets, large data sets, and multiple applications running in multiple locations
- Operation of three-dimensional interfaces
- Scalable multi-user collaborative environments
- Large-scale interactive application sessions that run across enterprise networks
The g-speak platform provides three core functional components:multi-device, spatial input and output; Plasma networking and multi-application support; and a geometry engine that renders pixels across multiple screens with real-world spatial registration.
g-speak allows any number of devices and screens to be used seamlessly together.
The g-speak platform supports practically any kind of input, including input from the mouse and keyboard, from touch interfaces on mobile devices, from web browsers, from large-screen touch displays, from spatial pointing devices, from bare-hand and glove-based gestural input systems, and from custom input devices.
A g-speak application can easily output to multiple screens. g-speak supports projectors, LCDs, and 3D displays. Different types of displays can be used together in a single environment.
The g-speak Plasma networking framework makes interactive, multi-device development simple and scalable. Every g-speak application relies on Plasma to coordinate event streams, application synchronization over the network, and media transport.
Every graphical and input object in a g-speak environment has real-world spatial identity and position.This spatial architecture makes it possible for any number of users to move both 2D and 3D data around between any number of screens.
The g-speak platform is display agnostic. Wall-sized projection screens can co-exist with desktop monitors, table-top screens, large touch screens, and hand-held devices.
Oblong offers g-speak as a software SDK and runtime libraries. The complete g-speak graphical application development stack is available on Linux and OS X. The g-speak Plasma networking components are available on Linux, OS X, Microsoft Windows, Java, iOS, and Android platforms.
Oblong offers hardware configurations that are designed for g-speak development and deployment.
Oblong also works with customers to specify custom hardware configurations, for example walk-up gestural kiosks that support mobile device interaction plus gesture recognition using the PrimeSense and Microsoft Kinect depth sensors.