11-10-2014, 04:36 PM
Abstracts: 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. Steve Mann is considered as the father of Sixth Sense Technology who made wearable computer in 1990. He implemented the Sixth Sense Technology as the neck worn projector with a camera system (which Mann originally referred to as “Synthetic Synesthesia of the Sixth Sense”). He was a media lab student at that time. Then his work was carried forward by Pranav Mistry (Ph.D student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab). By using a camera and a tiny projector, Sixth Sense sees what you see and visually augments any surfaces or objects we are interacting with. It projects information onto surfaces, walls and physical objects around us, and lets us interact with the projected information through natural hand gestures, arm movements, or our interaction with the object itself. This wearable gestural interface attempts to free information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer. To a layman, it would be something supernatural. Some might just consider it as a superstition or something psychological. But the invention of Sixth Sense Technology has completely shocked the world. Although it is not widely known as of now but the time is not far when this technology will change our perception of the world. Sixth Sense Technology may change how we look at the world forever. Sure, it is a system that projects information about what surrounds you over objects' surfaces, but it's also much more. By using a camera and a tiny projector, Sixth Sense sees what you see and visually augments any surfaces or objects we are interacting with. It’s the beginning of a new era of technology where engineering will reach new milestones. Just like in the science fiction movies where display of computer screen appears on walls, commands are given by gestures, the smart digital environment which talks to us to do our work and so on, these all will be possible very soon.