MIT Media Lab’s SixthSense Project provides a peek into our digital future. The one sentence description of SixthSense found on the official blog reads: ”‘SixthSense’ 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.” The video below demonstrates various ways in which SixthSense can augment reality. Below the video I will include some information about the technology.
Pranav Mistry, a PhD candidate at MIT, is the inventor of SixthSense and is featured in the video… the technology isn’t bad for a 28 year old :) who received stand-up applause at TED when the video above was shown. According to Professor Pattie Maes, who oversees the project at MIT, the basic equipment used in SixthSense is a combination of off-the-shelf computer equipment (and ordinary marker caps for the fingers) that in total sell for about $350. As can be seen in the video, the two primary components are a webcam and a small video projector. SixthSense connects to the internet via a smartphone’s data connection. More about SixthSense project is available on ted.com and on the official blog.
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