Is the SixthSense the future of wearable computer interfaces? Everyone today has a pocket full of technology but the interaction with these devices can be clunky. This interface would allow you to interact with your camera, phone, computer amongst other items with ease.
"SixthSense is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. By using a camera and a tiny projector mounted in a pendant like wearable device, ‘SixthSense’ sees what you see and visually augments any surfaces or objects we are interacting with. It projects information onto surfaces, walls, and physical objects around us, and lets us interact with the projected information through natural hand gestures, arm movements, or our interaction with the object itself. ‘SixthSense’ attempts to free information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer."
Thanks for the tip John.
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Are you freaking kidding me? People are going to wear this ridiculous-looking thing around? Not to mention the questions of how well a projector hung from the neck could possibly work, how bad the aches you’ll get from wearing something so big, the battery/bulb life, and the fact that your email/photos/etc are projected on the wall for the world to see.
Lose the goofy coloured fingertips and use a pair of LCD glasses instead of this ridiculous projector thing, and you might have something here.
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(Also, projecting info about someone onto their chest? Creepy. Don’t try this with the female students.)
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I really don’t think that the projector was meant to be any indication of a final product.
He’s using this as a foundation to what they would like to achieve. Imagine a technology where you only have one device that doesn’t have to be held up to take a picture, it doesn’t have to be dialled traditionally to make a call, everything is just there, workable and useable through simple gestures.
The watch example is perfect, the device picks up the location of where the time should be indicated and projects it onto your wrist. A simple wipe away and it’s gone.
The device could be a tiny pico projector, worn like a necklace, with the main device in a pocket wired to the projector. This is a very imaginative idea, which really needs the people watching it to be imaginative as well.
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Very nice, a little laggy, but we’re getting close.
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I was liking the whole thing until the interaction with another person came up. I’m certain I would be very uneasy about having even minor details about myself projected on my chest.
It has merit, but I also wonder just how much of it is fanciful thinking, like the 60’s versions of “the kitchen of tomorrow”. I mean, do I really want a virtual watch? Right now… no. A virtual cellphone keypad? maybe that could be useful when my tumor inducing cell phone is surgically implanted in my cranium.
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they only sucky thing is that it has to be a bit dark to see this,
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