SBIR-STTR Award

Naturalistic Operator Interface for Immersive Environments
Award last edited on: 6/19/2023

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : OSD
Total Award Amount
$149,876
Award Phase
1
Solicitation Topic Code
OSD12-HS2
Principal Investigator
Frank Tanner

Company Information

Hadron Industries Inc

11 Essex Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
   (855) 267-4253
   info@hadronindustries.com
   www.hadronindustries.com
Location: Multiple
Congr. District: 07
County: Middlesex

Phase I

Contract Number: FA8650-13-M-6388
Start Date: 2/28/2013    Completed: 8/21/2013
Phase I year
2013
Phase I Amount
$149,876
Remotely sensed data has an inherent physical detachment from the environment being sensed. At a high-level, we propose leveraging Oblong Industries"revolutionary g-speak platform to restore fully embodied situational awareness through multimodal interaction within the ICEbox environment. The g-speak spatial operating environment (SOE) is the world"s first fully-embodied, spatially aware computing environment, and the result of nearly 25 years of research and development into novel methods of human-computer interaction. The g-speak system"s conceptual debut was in the movie Minority Report and recently appeared in the Iron Man films. What began as a movie concept has developed into a spatially aware, networked OS, designed from the ground-up as a whole-body, human-computer interaction platform. The g-speak SOE is designed to help programmers write applications that use gestural input, function well on large screens and for simultaneous users, work across multiple computers and screens, and can be built from loosely-coupled small programs. By design, g-speak understands the relationships between the operator and the environment. By using a variety of hand gestures, as well as interaction with physical objects and/or mobile devices, g-speak is uniquely capable of restoring embodiment to the task of computing in general, and immersive situational awareness in particular.

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