Bangalore: MIT’s Projection Computer System developed by Pranav Mistry will let you write notes on your hand in whatever font you want.
Consider the possibilities. You could go up to any wall and project the book stacks of an immense library larger than the Sun from your stomach (like a Care Bear) and then call any book to your hands with a single, swift gesture (like a falcon).
Then, you could open a blank book in front of you and project the ebook version you have selected onto the empty pages, complete with animated illustrations, appropriate background music, and instant annotations.
You could project the book into your plaintive, open hands, the way a child pretends to read.
In an airplane, you could project a novel onto the seat-back in front of you and read with your arms crossed and one eye shut.
Retrieving information from the Web when you’re on the go can be a challenge. To make it easier, graduate student Pranav Mistry has developed SixthSense, a device that is worn like a pendant and super imposes digital information on the physical world. Unlike previous “augmented reality” systems, Mistry’s consists of in expensive, off-the-shelf hardware. Two cables connect an LED projector and webcam to a Web-enabled mobile phone, but the system can easily be made wireless, says Mistry.
Users control SixthSense with simple hand gestures; putting your fingers and thumbs together to create a picture frame tells the camera to snap a photo, while drawing an @ symbol in the air allows you to check your e-mail. It is also designed to automatically recognize objects and retrieve relevant information: hold up a book, for instance, and the device projects reader ratings from sites like Amazon.com onto its cover. With text-to-speech software and a Bluetooth headset, it can “whisper” the information to you instead.
Remarkably, Mistry developed SixthSense in less than five months, and it costs under $350 to build (not including the phone). Users must currently wear colored “marker s” on their fingers so that the system can track their hand gestures, but he is designing algorithms that will enable the phone to recognize them directly.
Pranav Mistry is a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab
Source: MIT Technology Review
Hailing from Palanpur, which is situated in northern Gujarat, Pranav obtained his bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering from Gujarat University. He then went to IIT Bombay for Master of Design before going to MIT. “Exposure to fields like Design to Technology and from Art to Psychology gave me a quite nice/interesting viewpoint to the world. I love to see technology from design perspective and vice versa. This vision reflects in almost all of my projects and research work as well. in short, I do what I love and I love what I do,” says Pranav.
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