Gesture-Based Tech

Hitachi's Futuristic Interface Channels Minority Report

As part of their 100th anniversary celebration, tech company Hitachi displayed their new gesture-based interface that allows users to feel not so unlike Tom Cruise in Minority Report. The interface uses a projection-based system and one camera to track user movements, allowing the system to detect what the user wants to do.

Hitachi says they hope that gesture-based interfaces will become more mainstream (by mid-2011) and be incorporated into advertising, digital signage, and medical applications. Check out the video and see how gesture-based tech could make things like TV and movies much more fun.

Gesture-based Interfaces
Opportunity for disruptive innovation
Projection-based Systems
Opportunity for disruptive innovation
Digital Signage
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Who This Affects Most

Advertising
Opportunity for disruptive innovation
Entertainment
Opportunity for disruptive innovation
Healthcare
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SCORE
3.3 out of 10
GENDER
70% Men30% Women
MARKETTop markets: North America, Europe
GENERATION
  • Gen Z
  • Gen Alpha
  • Millennial (primary audience)
  • Gen X (primary audience)
POPULARITY
Popularity 31%
Activity 60%
Freshness 8%

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