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The Sixth Sense Technology
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ABSTRACT
IEEE has for long been supporting new technologies and has
been introducing them to the students. It has been providing
initiatives to bring the students more closer to the technical
world with the help of researches been conducted in various
technical fields
In this paper we worked on a new type of technology which is
going to be soon launched in the market .Its name is the sixth
sense technology a great initiative by an Indian on
international grounds
INTRODUCTION
You all may be wondering what’s with the sixth sense. the
answer is very simple the Sixth Sense is a wearable gestural
interface device developed by Pranav Mistry PhD student in the
Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab . It is similar to
Telepointer, a neck worn projector/camera system developed by
Media Lab student Steve Mann (which Mann originally referred
to as "Synthetic Synesthesia of the Sixth Sense")[
We've
evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us.
When we encounter something, someone or some place, we use
our five natural senses to perceive information about it; that
information helps us make decisions and chose the right actions
to take. But arguably the most useful information that can help
us make the right decision is not naturally perceivable with our
five senses, namely the data, information and knowledge that
mankind has accumulated about everything and which is
increasingly all available online. Although the miniaturization
of computing devices allows us to carry computers in our
pockets, keeping us continually connected to the digital world,
there is no link between our digital devices and our interactions
with the physical world. Information is confined traditionally on
paper or digitally on a screen [1
CONSTRUCTION AND WORKINGS
The Sixth Sense prototype comprises a pocket projector a
mirror and a camera contained in a pendant like, wearable
device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to a
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. The
movements and arrangements of these fiducially are interpreted
into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected
application interfaces. Sixth Sense supports multi-touch and
multi-user interaction
APPLICATIONS
The Sixth Sense prototype implements several applications that
demonstrate the usefulness, viability and flexibility of the
system. The map application lets the user navigate a map
displayed on a nearby surface using hand gestures, similar to
gestures supported by Multi-Touch based systems, letting the
user zoom in, zoom out or pan using intuitive hand movements.
The drawing application lets the user draw on any surface
THE INVENTOR
Pranav Mistry, 28 year old, of Indian origin is the mastermind
behind the sixth sense technology. He invented ‘ Sixth Sense /
WUW ( Wear UR World) ‘ which is a wearable gestural , user
friendly interface which links the physical world around us with
digital information and uses hand gestures to interact with them.
He is a PhD student at MIT and he won the ‘Invention of the
Year 2009 ‘- by Popular Science [2] .
CONCLUSION AND FUTURE OF THE DEVICE
The device will soon be up for sale and will be available to the
common public the device will cost around 350$ without the
custom made PC. After sale the technology will create a
revolution it will not only make our world digital but also make
it simple. It will remove the tedious task of carrying our laptops
our any other devices which are very heavy all we have to do is
just wear the device which is a pendant shaped. Its light and
easy to carry and easy access to any information. The inventor
is now trying to make out a 3-D interface with the help of this
device. And also defense companies are ready to buy it for
defense purposes. The device is been modified to detect noise
frequency so that when the device clip is attached to a paper it
detect your finger place by a simple touch and the vibration of
sound created on the pape