Prepare yourself. This will blow your mind off. Assuming you haven’t yet read or seen this video by Pranav Mistry, a genius working on the Sixth sense technology which uses Augmented Reality concept to super imposes digital information on the physical world.
This small device which can be worn around the neck like a pendant consists of inexpensive, off-the-shelf hardware. Two cables connect an LED mini-projector and webcam to a Web-enabled mobile phone, but the system can easily be made wireless as per Pranav. All the boring informational stuff will come later. Let us first jump into this amazing video. Make sure you watch it till the end. Video is courtesy TEDIndia.
If you are not lost after watching the mind-blowing video and still around, let me tell you that this prototype costs approximately $350 to build. The bigger news is, as Pranav mentioned in the video, the digital Sixth sense technology will be made open-source very soon!
For whatever reasons you couldn’t watch the video, here is a brief-up on what the video is all about.
The Sixth sense mobile computing device you see in the image on top is installed with software that analyzes the gestures and the objects captured by the camera so that it can respond and provide the appropriate information. For example, Mistry traces a small circle on his wrist using his index finger, SixthSense will project a watch onto his wrist:
There are many more gestures that the device recognizes – drawing a magnifying glass projects a map application, while drawing the ‘@’ symbol lets the user check his/her email. SixthSense can also interact with everyday objects, like in the image below where it reveals that the flight which the user has a ticket to is delayed.
And here we see SixthSense providing Amazon’s rating for a book on the book’s cover itself:
Sixth sense can pull out the videos related to the latest news you are currently reading on the newspaper:
Amazing, plain awesome. The possibility of actually having such a device in the real future is what blows my mind off. Not just Tom Cruise (in Minority Report), even we can have and use such a device!
Pranav Mistry, who hails from Palampur, a small town in Gujarat, India, Research Assistant and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. Before joining MIT he worked as a UX Researcher with Microsoft. You can know more about Pranav ‘Zombie’ Mistry and the latest on Sixth sense.
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Dugg the topic for you. Thank you for sharing it Raju. Heading over to his website to check more details.
Great video. His project is really awesome.
I wish I saw his action on stage!
He really rocked the audience… excellent stuffs..
Great find man.
I will put up a post on my blog for my readers…
Heyyyy….
Amazing….
i have gone through his website also
http://www.pranavmistry.com/
really awesome
you r real genius of this era
Open source as well! This is _amazing_
ITS REALLY, THE ONE OF THE MOST GREATEST TECHNOLOGY I HAVE EVER SEEN………I THINK NO WORDS FOR Mr. PRANAV MISTRI…HE IS …..NO WORD’S…
@.@ EVERYONE WILL HAVE ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The article and the vedeo show is spell bound.I would like to know the min. things required to do this and use very efficiently in day to day applications by every one and how to simplify it, to make it quite affordable for a common man. Best regards.
it’s really greaaaaaaaaaaat.superb.
it is greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat…………..
i am proud of that ur knowledge is from INDIA.
really it is a great work……..
It’s Reaaaaaalllllllllllyyyyyyy GGGrrrrreeeeaaaaTTTTTT……..
I proud of that ur knowledge is from India…
i wish to pranava mistry…..
one again new technoilogy u search and make it….
best of luck….!!!!
I have gone through….!!
so every person Must.!! see..!!!!!!!this video…
http://www.pranavmistry.com/
itsssssssss great pranav no words to describe
absolutely fantastic pranav
congratssssss
CONGRATS RRANAV AND THANK YOU FOR BEING AN NDIAN I FEEL PROUD ABOUT YOU FOR YOUR GREAT MISTRY
MIND BLOWING
it s wonder we proud for gujarati
This technology is really great,Which is can’t imaginable.We are proud to be U’r success
its amazing simply amazing.
after watching ths video lotz of young engineers have got alot inspiration to do something new.
thanks!!!!
unbelievable you are!!!!!!!!!!!!!! extrordinary talent you got!! all the best!! keep inventing