sixth sence technology

By Himanshu.m

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HISTORY

INTRODUCTION

Sixth Sense Technology integrates digital information into the physical world and its objects, making the entire world, your computer.

It can turn any surface into a touch-screen for computing, controlled by simple hand gestures.

It is not a technology which is aimed at changing human habits but causing computers and other machines to adapt to human needs.

It also supports multi user and multi touch provisions.

Sixth Sense is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information

Sixth sense is basically connection and relation between physically things and digital things just simple gesture with human body like hand and foot gesture by using pocket projector, smart cell phone, mirror, colour marker and camera

Components

The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device.

Camera

Projector

Mirror

Mobile Component

Colored Markers

Camera

Projector

Mirror

Mobile

Colored Markers

HOW IT WORKS?Images Pictures Gestures

Info on surface

captureSend for processing

Reflect on desired surfaceProject image

Send Info

Application

Advantages

• Portable (small and light weight which is able to carry).

• Supports multi-touch and multi-use interaction.• Connectedness between world and information.• Cost effective.• Data access directly from machine in real time.• Mind map the idea anywhere.• It is an open source.

Disadvantages

• Hug disadvantage is no privacy while capturing picture (etc) of someone even a person don’t knows you are capturing his picture.

• It is not private enough just for user.• When a device projecting on a hard surface,

people around you can see the projection. • Projection is not better in a morning and bright

areas.

References

• http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixthSense