Every time people wet their pants over how cool the interface was in Minority Report, I have a chuckle because I once attended a lecture by Jaron Lanier, a VR pioneer and the technical consultant on that movie, where he explained how much that interface actually sucks and is a real pain to use and was chosen by the producer for the movie largely because a) it looks cool and b) it shows off Tom Cruise's face clearly. He told us that they put metal rods in Cruise's sleeves because you can't hold your arms perfectly still like that for long periods of time.
