Oblong industries

Case Study- GStreamer at Oblong Industries, Carlton J. Sparrell, Oblong Industries

Carlton leads product and video strategy at Oblong Industries. He has more than twenty years experience designing systems relating to multi-modal interaction, distributed computing, streaming media, and interactive television.

Prior to Oblong Industries, Carlton was VP Technology at Ucentric Systems, a pioneer in whole-home digital video recording and became Director Advanced Technologies for Motorola after Motorola’s acquisition of Ucentric in 2005.

Carlton was a founder of Fantasma Networks, a silicon valley Ultra-Wide Band fabless semiconductor company and a Member of Research Staff at Paul Allen’s Interval Research Corporation in the mid to late 1990s.

Carlton holds a Master of Science from the MIT Media Laboratory and a Bachelor of Science from MIT in Electrical Science and Engineering.

Talk Abstract

Quite often you hear people talking about things with the words 'a Minority Report like interface'. The Xbox 360 Kinect system for instance is often referenced this way. But what do a system built by the guy who came up with the technology in Minority Report really look like? John Underkoffler who founded Oblong Industries after being the technical consultant on Minority Report and has been working with his team in Los Angeles to create revolutionary motion control systems. In this talk Carlton J. Sparell from Oblong Industries will talk about the technologies developed at Oblong Industries and how GStreamer fits into their system. He will also talk about some of the multimedia challenges they have encountered and how GStreamer has been used to solve them.