Carlton Sparrell, Oblong's VP of Product Development, spoke at the MIT Media Laboratory's Fall 2009 Sponsor Week meeting.

Over the course of the twenty minute talk (viewable via the video above) Carlton furnishes the first public overview of the technical capabilities of plasma, Oblong's rewindably networked framework for data self-description, encapsulation, and interprocess transport.

Carlton also provides a glimpse of a 'common operating environment' built atop plasma and g-speak. This new environment enables collaborative work at multiple levels: (1) application sharing and control; (2) input-output coordination; and (3) data synchronization. The video that he shows -- a video-within-video, as you view it overhead -- involves an air-traffic analysis scenario.

For the record, Carlton's work in gestural interface is the earliest (at Oblong): as far back as the first few years of the 1990s, he was building systems like ICONIC at MIT. Here's some documentation of that work; more is available by searching the world wide web.