Oblongs products, including the gspeak spatial operating system and the mezzanine collaboration appliance, define the next generation of multiuser, multiscreen, multi. Mezzanine improves distributed, parallel work processes by linking locations and teams together with their tools and content. Mezzanine is oblongs visual collaboration solution, and its the only product of its kind to link locations, teams, and content in a shared immersive workspace. Tech insider had a chance to visit oblongs new york offices to try out mezzanine 3, the latest version of the companys futuristic software, which is. Explore our mezzanine in action case studies to learn how multistream collaboration increases knowledge access and discovery, enables more effective ways of working, and enhances teamwork and engagement.
The mind behind minority report is giving powerpoint a scifi. Founded in 2009 by ana rocha and jorge goncalves, mezzanine presents itself as a nonprofit organization for creation and programming, promoting awareness of the work dynamics between public and arts professionals. Oblong mezzanine offers an advanced collaboration environment as seen in the movies minority report and iron man 3, where gestural accommodations enable new forms of collaboration with high definition graphics. Oblong mezzanine oblong mezzanine is a collaborative tool in which a multiscreen system with a dynamic concept called infopresence is the heart of the system. Live video and applications, define single or multiscreen workspaces, and share with. Oblong mezzanine in gartner report on tech for modern meeting rooms gartner report select the right technology for modern meeting rooms, which also includes barco clickshare among other av technology, available for free download. Mezzanine is really cool, but i feel like it is a business noveltyeveryone gets excited when you first see it. Please see our previous article for the full details, but for a vast oversimplification, think of the futuristic displays in the tom cruise movie minority report which the oblong scientists happen to have worked on. Stability through the storm 5 we observed that many asset classes showed a significant drop in value with the most significant decline being in the commodities market, with more than a 60% decline in value from peak levels followed by equity markets, which experienced a decline of over 50% from peak to trough. It steers clear of the incohesive, incoherent, and the non sequiturs that muddled other stabs at a realistic literary depiction of the human internal thought process.
Jan 15, 2018 unified communications oblong adds picture on pictures to mezzanine collaboration pop or picture on pictures conferencing features is just one of the new collaboration features oblong industries will show at ise 2018 along with its mezzanine 600 and mezzanine 200 series. Over the past several years, ive followed pretty much every new thing in the technology space, and written about many of them. John underkoffler is the ceo of oblong industries, and he is perhaps best known as the science advisor for the landmark scifi film minority report. Visit our quick start guide for tips on how to get started.
Oblong industries introduces a series of mezzanine. This, scully explains, is oblongs prime product, mezzanine. Jun 23, 2011 this is the next macintoshlevel of disruption. May 31, 2017 oblong industries believes it has come up with a way to improve visual collaboration, and now its launching a series of products under its mezzanine brand to increase adoption by enterprises. Avispl and oblong work together to create flexible meeting spaces and increase visual collaboration for teams the oblong mezzanine family of offerings makes it easy to select the solution that best fits your business needs, team composition and available physical space. Oblong mezzanine in gartner report on tech for modern meeting.
John underkoffler, who led the team that came up with the interface that tom cruises character used in the 2002 movie minority report, cofounded a company, oblong industries, to make the gestureactivated interface a reality. Dec 04, 20 earlier this year we covered a new, and unique, visual collaboration solution. Minority report 2 hours and 25 minutes movie 2002 in the year 2054 a. Mezzanine introduces multiuser, multiscreen, multidevice collaboration. You, too, can soon be like tom cruise in minority report. Apr 22, 2015 minority report gets real with gesture tech platform.
Oblong adds mezzanine solutions, creates mezzanine series, targets wider range of applications oblongs mezzanine series includes mezzanine 200 series, mezzanine 300 series, mezzanine 600 series and mezzanine 650 series, while offering more accessible prices and integration with skype for business. Individual state thirdparty inspections and approvals are offered. Oblong mezzanine in gartner report on tech for modern. In finance, mezzanine capital is any subordinated debt or preferred equity instrument that represents a claim on a companys assets which is senior only to that of the common shares.
What used to be the quarterly email from the ceo has become a torrent of informationsharing within companies at all levels. The purpose of this thesis is to determine if the oblong mezzanine coupled with the. What is the minimum or average price of an oblong mezzanine. A mezzanine is an intermediate floor or floors in a building which is open to the floor below. But anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge. Oblong adds picture on pictures to mezzanine collaboration. Rather than having a dedicated monitors for videoconferencing, or data. Our products and solutions are built on the foundational work of oblong ceo john underkoffler, a pioneering researcher into spatial computing at the mit media lab. It is placed halfway up the wall on a floor which has a ceiling at least twice as high as a floor with minimum height. They use three gifted humans called precogs with special powers to see into the future and predict crimes beforehand.
The struggle to spread the minority report interface mit. Mezzanines meet military and government standards, as well as ibc and osha code. This is hardly surprising since its based on a short story by the philosophical scifi novelist. Mezzanine allows meeting participants to share multiple streams of content, from multiple locations, all at the same time. Feb 16, 2010 if youve seen the movie minority report, youve seen the system theyre building. What it is and how it works with examples heres what mezzanine debt is and how it works.
Nov 10, 2014 oblong are dropping their price to gain market share, and you really need two or more rooms to gain much value from the solution. Mar 15, 2018 engagez vos clients plus facilement, rapidement et efficacement. Oblong mezzanine helps construction firm maximise productivity. Find press releases and recent news related to oblong industries and our flagship product, mezzanine. The mezzanines can also be designed to meet requirements more stringent than the above. I finally got mezzanine running but deleted my user account because there was a mispelling in the email address. Credentialed representatives of the media are invited to learn more about the company, and are welcome to experience mezzanine in any of our offices worldwide. Underkoffler demonstrated the interface called the gspeak.
Explore our mezzanine in action case studies to learn how multistream collaboration increases knowledge access and discovery, enables more effective ways of. Oblong adds mezzanine solutions, creates mezzanine series. John was plucked from academia by hollywoods alist to envision the future of humancomputer interface for films such as minority report, the hulk, and iron man. Team oblong oblong s mezzanine to be such an integral part of it. Underkoffler is cofounder and ceo of oblong, which is designing commercial versions of a similar computer interface you saw in minority report. But mezzanine is something youll buy in full from oblong, and if you need.
Minority report interface for offices business insider. Mezzanine is being developed by john underkoffler, chief computer visionary behind the film minority report. Sep 05, 2014 underkofflers company, oblong industries, has developed a platform called gspeak, based on mit research, and a collaborativeconferencing system called mezzanine that allows multiple users to simultaneously share and control digital content across multiple screens, from any device, using gesture control. Oblong industries believes it has come up with a way to improve visual collaboration, and now its launching a series of products under its mezzanine brand to increase adoption by enterprises. Engagez vos clients plus facilement, rapidement et efficacement. Mezzanine financings can be structured either as debt typically an unsecured and subordinated note or preferred stock mezzanine capital is often a more expensive financing source for a company than secured debt. Oblong industries and carahsoft team up to provide mezzanine. For minority report, underkoffler used his early research around gspeak to. Oblongs technology was the basis for the computers depicted in the film minority report and has roots in more than two decades of research at the mit media lab. Mezzanine is an immersive visual collaboration solution that defines the next era of computing by enabling the. Tom cruise dons his data gloves in the 2002 film minority report. Live video and applications, define single or multiscreen workspaces, and share with remote participants. Feb 07, 20 mezzanine is a conference room solution that brings together people, screens, devices, applications, and data in a shared workspacefaster decisionmaking, more effective collaboration.
Minority report is one of the best real science fiction movies of all time. The mezzanine app mezzanine for mac mezzanine for windows. With mezzanine, just like cruise did in the film, you can see and interact with, say. This minority report tech is here to make video conferences suck. Mezzanine our flagship mezzanine series brings multishare collaboration to rooms of all sizes. Mezzanine meet share decide wipple x oblong youtube. I watched oblongs mezzanine in action at one of the companys clients, the. Oblongs mezzanine revolutionizes your conference room, meeting space, or presentation facility by providing multiuser, multiscreen, multidevice capabilities. Structure for production and diffusion of performing arts. Oblongs mezzanine is an immersive collaboration solution that enables an experience known as infopresence, whereby users are immersed as a group in their vital content and data both in a room as well as across locations. There are also videoconferencing technologies in development such as mezzanine by oblong.
Oblong develops a collaborativeconferencing platform that allows users to share and control digital content from multiple screens. Earlier this year we covered a new, and unique, visual collaboration solution. May 11, 2017 oblong mezzanine in gartner report on tech for modern meeting rooms gartner report select the right technology for modern meeting rooms, which also includes barco clickshare among other av technology, available for free download. Holder construction, a contractor of large commercial projects, based in atlanta, has deployed oblongs mezzanine platform to connect team members in multiple locations and improve collaboration. Oblong industries introduces a series of mezzanine enterprise. Explore our mezzanine in action case studies to learn how multishare collaboration increases knowledge access and discovery, enables more effective ways of working, and enhances teamwork and engagement. Developer of the mezzanine immersive visual collaboration solution for the enterprise and the rumpus app for virtual teams. Minority report gets real with gesture tech platform gcn.
When tom cruise waves his hands in the 2002 film minority report and manipulates data on. Doug hunter, evp for preconstruction at holder, confirms all projects of the firm go through his group. Next generation videoconferencing technologies such as mezzanine by oblong. Nov 29, 2017 holder construction, a contractor of large commercial projects, based in atlanta, has deployed oblongs mezzanine platform to connect team members in multiple locations and improve collaboration. Unified communications oblong adds picture on pictures to mezzanine collaboration pop or picture on pictures conferencing features is just one of the new collaboration features oblong industries will show at ise 2018 along with its mezzanine 600 and mezzanine 200 series. In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest. The ability to use mezzanine and bring everyone into one place. Its the ability of team members to bring their devices and data together in a shared pane of glass and its the end of geographic location as a barrier to collaboration. The mezzanine is generally much more readable than others in its subgenre of experimental literature. In this interview for bbc click, oblong founder john underkoffler demonstrates the future and the present of sharing screens and processing power for intuitive, immersive collaboration. Minority report science advisor builds the most awesome. The mezzanine infopresence room new, improved, and. Oblong mezzanine is a collaborative tool in which a multiscreen system with a dynamic concept called infopresence is the heart of the system. Mezzanine scales up to support the most immersive and commanding.
If youve seen the movie minority report, youve seen the system theyre building. This site uses cookies to personalize ads and analyze our traffic. Mezzanine is a conference room solution that brings together people, screens, devices, applications, and data in a shared workspacefaster decisionmaking, more effective collaboration. John anderton is a top precrime cop in the late21st century, when technology can predict crimes before theyre committed. Mezzanine extends current collaboration technologies by turning telepresence into infopresence. Oblong was founded in 2006 with the goal of delivering a better. When tom cruise waves his hands in the 2002 film minority report and manipulates data on multiple screens, its the stuff of science fiction.
An ultrasonic pointer pin can be used to control any number of screens distributed in the room. Tom cruise in minority report inspired lots of tech companies. Today, though, movie stars arent the only ones using gestural technology government agencies are. Underkoffler is the mind behind the computer interfaces in the steven spielberg film minority report, and also mezzanine, the reallife version designed for businesses to collaborate across multiuser, multi.
So now there are no user accounts set up in mezzanine and i have no way to. Minority report adviser john underkoffler ponders the. But why use a wand and not your hands, ala minority report. Come and experience your torrent treasure chest right here. Download the mezzanine app to start your meetings, share your screen, and invite others. The future of conference room collaboration faster decisionmaking, more effective collaboration, richer communication. Minority report gets real with gesture tech platform. Didnt realize it would kick me out of the system after deletion. The future of work is rich in technology and drawbacks the. Oblong are dropping their price to gain market share, and you really need two or more rooms to gain much value from the solution. Contact us pnc erieview capital, 1900 east ninth street, 17th floor, cleveland, oh 44114. Download the app to make the most of your mezzanine room. Mezzanine and minority equity solutions get to know pnc erieview capital pnc erieview capital provides a flexible combination of mezzanine and minority equity solutions to finance leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and growth opportunities. Oblongs mezzanine is an immersive collaboration solution that enables an experience known as infopresence, whereby users are immersed as a group in their vital content and.
Eoc in a box offers rapid communications and networking infrastructure, and can be setup within hours of initial need. Oblong industries and carahsoft team up to provide. The future of work is rich in technology and drawbacks. Because when teams can see more and share more, they can do more. A mezzanine does not count as one of the floors in a building, and generally does not count in determining maximum floorspace. In this mornings web roundup, a company creating gesturerecognition. Oblongs newest offering, mezzanine, wraps a standard office conference room in highres displays and a digital whiteboard. John underkoffler, who led the team that came up with the interface that tom cruises character used in the 2002 movie minority report, cofounded a company, oblong industries, to make the gestureactivated interface a reality using special gloves, mr. Underkoffler is the mind behind the computer interfaces in the steven spielberg film minority report, and also mezzanine, the reallife version designed for businesses to collaborate across multiuser, multiscreen environments. Underkofflers company, oblong industries, has developed a platform called gspeak, based on mit research, and a collaborativeconferencing system called mezzanine that allows multiple users to simultaneously share and control digital content across multiple screens, from.
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