I was watching the sixth sense technology lecture by Pranav Mistry in TED India forum. No doubt it is a nice idea and I appreciate that. I was checking the comments, and, as expected too many people are excited let me give you all a brief presentation on sixth sense technology.
'Sixth Sense' 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.
The Sixth Sense prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes and tracks user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. The maximum number of tracked fingers is only constrained by the number of unique fiducials, thus SixthSense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction.
I was dreaming a little further. Suppose I can implant a microprocessor in one’s brain (that can communicate with his own senses), attach that with a broadband network and then enable the person to communicate with the world without any more external device, at any time, day or night. He can get any data, any picture or just anything available in the web. He will be able to store huge information there in his head and never forget anything.
In fact I was thinking this sixth sense technology can be more customized or modified and can become a boon for medical field also let say by taking a x ray through x ray machine it could be also done by just covering the area for which you want to take x ray just like taking the picture
Through sixth sense technology making square from the fingers of your hands but for this we have to include the same functionality or programming which use in x ray machine .this is just an example a lot can happen in radiology field
Very informative. I have one request, as a lay person who doesn't have much technical knowledge right now, please make your information a little more user-friendly :P I found myself loosing the point because of its content-heaviness. But, at the same time it was too interesting to be left unread ;) Keep us informed and sharing the knowledge you have. We are very interested. :)
ReplyDeleteFor my future blogs i definitely keep this in my mind as i can make out readers are interested in my blogs..:)
ReplyDeleteNice to know about such technological development and your effort to bring this to mass' notice is worth accolades. Blog is very informative and nicely written, bit of editing would have made it more beautiful though...:-)
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