‘Sixth Sense’

Sixth Sense in Use

‘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. It has been designed by Mr. Pranav Mistry at MIT Labs. The device is very handy & can store/retrieve/process information with just a few gestures of your hand. Remember in the movie “Minority Reports” how Tom Cruise used to use the gesture of his hand to sort the information on the glass screen. Well this is much more advanced than that, you dont need a glass screen nor any specific hardware for display, stand in front of wall or just slide your hand in front of it and enjoy working on your hand or watching your favorite movie. With this newspaper reading wont be boring anymore but more interactive with videos being played when it senses the headlines and scans the related news videos from youtube.

The device can even help you in shopping and can also do the money tracking for you. It can search for your friend in a crowded place (Convicts pray that this device never goes in production). You can do calculations and do your precious work on this device while moving around. This device will surely open the gates for the next revolution.

How this device works?

The prototype model of this device consists of pocket projector, a mirror and a camera 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.

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This is a revolutionary product which will surely change our lives.I am waiting for this product to come in production so that I don’t have to use my brain anymore.