Bridging the gap between the physical and digital worlds
DiscoZombie
Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
<div class="IPBDescription">SixthSense</div><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/pranav_m...technology.html</a>
watch the whole thing, your mind will be blown like mine. Open source, and all the needed equipment can be put together with $300? What a world we live in. I can't even imagine what sort of world my children will be growing up in, 15 years from now.
watch the whole thing, your mind will be blown like mine. Open source, and all the needed equipment can be put together with $300? What a world we live in. I can't even imagine what sort of world my children will be growing up in, 15 years from now.
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Technology++, SeaLevel++.
And also opensource? Wow, pretty cool!
<ul><li> Putting the flight ticket on the screen and getting a path description</li><li> Taking a photo with the gesture</li><li> Watching youtube in an ordinary newspaper</li><li> Playing a racing game using a microphone and a piece of paper</li><li> Picking up an item from the paper and dropping it onto his stationary computer</li><li> Altering a pie chart he had picked up from a real paper and dropped onto his virtual paper</li></ul>
What they're doing is interesting, but I think using projection as your main method of data output is exceedingly limited. What if you're outside? Those little projectors struggle to make an impact in regular indoor lighting, let alone in sunlight, or on a non-white surface.
Direct, eyeball-injection of data is realistically the only real way wearable computing can work.
--Scythe--
What they're doing is interesting, but I think using projection as your main method of data output is exceedingly limited. What if you're outside? Those little projectors struggle to make an impact in regular indoor lighting, let alone in sunlight, or on a non-white surface.
Direct, eyeball-injection of data is realistically the only real way wearable computing can work.
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That or a datajack - only 0.05 essence cost!
I highly doubt it's faked. Very limited probably, in the sense only pie charts with high contrast can be pinched right now, but it's a start. There are tons of extremely high-tech experiments being done in research, the only problem is sorting out from the rest only what is viable and actually feasible outside standard lab specifications (I've done lab work where everything was perfect when operating at 15°C, but not at all at 20°C).
I don't think that recognition is that hard really, many products already can analyze your movements: projection keyboard (phone keys on hand), EyeToy (data pinching), OCR for scanners, Shazam (music recognition) are already existing products that do things similar to these. All you need now is to make it much more efficient and integrate it seamlessly to your everyday life, and there you go, SixthSense.
Who wants to read their e-mails on a wall in a public building?
When taking a picture the perspective of your eye and that of the camera are different, so you go out take a cool picture only to come back inside and find that its out of frame.
Using a peace of paper as a screen sounds cool but who is going to carry around a peace of paper? Its going to get folded and bent and soon your screen is all out of shape.
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spam filters would become obsolete, because of the creepy raincoat wearing street salespeople wantin to sell ya a watch!