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Oct 28

If Google Glass could do this, it would start a revolution

Now that's what I call an "Air tablet."

(Credit: ITRI)

The world portrayed by Tom Cruise and his slick, glove-manipulated holographic operating system in “Minority Report” has been inching closer to reality for some time now, and as the video below shows, it could come way ahead of schedule and be even cooler than Hollywood’s original vision of the future.

Taiwan’s nonprofit Industrial Technology Research Institute pointed me to the below demo of its new i-Air Touch (iAT) Technology, which is essentially an augmented-reality system that falls somewhere between the compact specs of Google Glass and the original, bulkier virtual-reality systems of the 1990s. Unlike Google Glass however, it doesn’t rely primarily on voice commands. Instead, it projects a virtual touch-based interface in the user’s field of vision that appears to float in the air and responds to being “touched.” Watch the video below for a better explanation — a picture is definitely worth a thousand words in this case.