No, we are not sensationalizing, this IS amazing.

So what’s the idea?

The concept of sixth-sense technology is to interact with the digital world the way we do with the physical one – and bring these two together. Rather than interacting with a computer using a keyboard and mouse, what if we could interact with it the way we do with everything in the real world – with natural gestures! Instead of restricting the power of information and processing to a small screen, what if the computer was everywhere? What if we could bring the interactivity, intuitiveness and “naturalness” of the real world into the digital one?  In other words, rather than going on the computer to do things, everything becomes a computer (without actually modifying the items themselves)!

What can you do with it, you ask?

With this kind of technology, you would be able to do the following things without changing the hardware item itself – you don’t have to add a screen to everything to make it a computer – by simply mashing digital information with the real world using a projector, the possibilities are endless.

You could:

• Read a newspaper, and watch related live news videos on ordinary paper!
• Find information about anything by simply holding it in your hands. Instead of firing up a laptop and Googling the item, you interact with real world items normally, and digital information is added and processed automatically.
• Look at your ticket or boarding pass, and see live updated information about your flight on normal paper.
• Grab information from a paper, and import it into a document to start working with it. Literally pinch some text on a paper and move it to a digital screen!
• Check the time by drawing a watch on your wrist. There is nothing on your wrist, just draw a circle on your bare wrist and the time appears.

How does it work?

The idea is to have a camera and projector attached to your helmet. The camera is the input device, and the projector is the output. The camera simply recognizes everything you are doing, everything you are holding, etc., and the projector outputs information onto that object or surface. So the camera interprets your actions and the related objects, the computer finds and processes related dynamic information, and then the projector displays that information in a natural, intuitive way. Thus the whole computing experience becomes natural and integrated with the real world. No need to spend hours in front of machines or typing away at smartphones and devices to interact with the digital world.

So how soon can I throw out my keyboard?

You probably won’t throw out your keyboard for some time, as we still need “workstations” to process information sometimes. Not everything we do on a computer relates the natural world. As for sixth-sense technology, Pranav Mistry states that the technology itself is not difficult to develop. Powerful gesture-recognizing cameras and good projectors are easy to make once companies start competing. The idea right now, is to popularize this concept and start developing software platforms and collaborative environments to start building this revolutionizing technology.

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   Melvin Pereira says:

   October 11, 2010 at 9:39 am

   I guess this is an extension to the already growing Augmented Reality technology and campaigns that are growing all over the internet.

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