Look at this and the video below which shows a new kind of wearable computer interface that depends on a projector to project the interface on a wall, which can then be controlled by gestures.
It does some other cool things such as framing an object with your two hands allows you to take a picture of the framed object.
The device is a wearable gestural interface called SixthSense, which is now a project being developed by MIT Media Lab that aims to seamlessly integrate digital information with our everyday physical world. More information as follows:
The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the 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 using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. The maximum number of tracked fingers is only constrained by the number of unique fiducials, thus SixthSense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction.
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March 13th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
That is so flipping cool…I want it!