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Submitted ByJagdeep Singh SidhuMCA -3 rd Year

Submitted ToProf. Narinder Singh

Sixth Sense Technology

Introduction About SenseSO WHY SIXTH SENSE??Basic Points About Sixth SenseWhat is Six Sense Technology History That Things it can DoComponentsSoftware How it works Applications Educational Use Advantage

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Continue……..Issues and DisadvantagesOther Related TechnologiesFuture DevelopmentConclusion

About Sense

Senses are physiological capacities of organism that provide data for perception

. Human beings have SightHearingTasteSmellTouch are the five traditionally recognized.

Intoduction

SO WHY SIXTH SENSE??

• Hereby Physical world is painted with the digital information.

• You can carry your digital world with you wherever you go.

• You can start with any wall or any surface as an interface even your palm.

Basic Points About Sixth Sense

Sixth Sense allows people to use the internet without a screen or a keyboard

It can turn any surface into a touch screen

“The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers using simple computer-vision techniques.”

What is Sixth Sense Technology

Sixth Sense Technology is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

HistorySteve Mann is the father of Sixth Sense who made a wearable computer in 1990. KARMA: Knowledge-based Augmented Reality for Maintenance Assistance

Continue..MouselessThe firstly mouseless technology was deve. By Pranav Mistry .TheMouse less is an invisible computer mouse that provides the familiarity of interaction of a physical mouse without actually needing a real hardware mouse.

Continue.. The Sixth Sense

technology is a wearable wireless device developed by researcher Pranav Mistry from the Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009. Mistry is part of the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT where he developed this technology to create a link between the physical world and digital devices.

“The device recognizes items in stores, and then gathers and projects information about products to the user. It also is able to provide quick signals to let users know what the best products are based on their needs.”

 “Another amazing feature is the device’s ability to

look at an airplane ticket and let the user know whether the flight is delayed or on time. It is also able to recognize books (based on an image ) in a book store and then project reader reviews or author information from the Internet onto blank pages.”

“The device can also recognize articles in newspapers, retrieve the latest related stories or video from the Internet and then display them on pages for the user. Say goodbye to your dictionary and encyclopedia.”

That Things it can do…

COMPONENTS

CameraProjectorMirrorMobile

componentColored markers

CAMERA

Captures an object in view and tracks the user’s hand gestures

It sends the data to smart phone

It acts as a digital eye, connecting you to the world of digital information

PROJECTORThe projector projects visual

information enabling surfaces and physical objects to be used as interfaces

The projecter itself contains a

battery inside, with 3 hours of battery life

A tiny LED projector displays data sent from the smart phone on any surface in view-object, wall, or person

MIRROR & SMART PHONE

he usage of the mirror is significant as the projector dangles pointing downwards from the neck.

A Web –enabled smart phone in the user’s pocket processes the video data

Other software searches the Web and interprets the hand gestures

COLOURED MARKS It is at the tip of the user’s

fingersMarking the user’s fingers

with red, yellow, green, and blue tape helps the webcam recognize gestures

The movements and arrangements of these markers are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces

SoftwarePranav Mistry says the Sixth Sense software will be open source. As far as this seems to be a little set of items, there will not be user interfaces or much advanced programs for the users. There will be much harder and secured coding inside the device to make sure the security of the software. It will be interesting to know the new language for coding for a sixth sense device.

The hardware that makes Sixth Sense work is a pendant like mobile wearable interface.

It has a camera, a mirror and a projector and is connected wire Lesley  to a Bluetooth smart phone that can slip comfortably into one’s pocket.

The camera recognizes individuals, images, pictures, gestures one makes with their hands.

Information is sent to the Smartphone for processing.

The downward-facing projector projects the output image on to the mirror.

Mirror reflects image on to the desired surface.Thus, digital information is freed from its

confines and placed in the physical world.

HOW IT WORK ?

APPLICATIONS

DRAWING APPLICATION

The drawing application lets the user drawon any surface by tracking the fingertipmovements of the user’s index finger

Create multimedia readingexperiences

Sixth Sense can be programmed to project related videos onto newspaper articles you are reading

CHECK THE TIME

Draw a circle on your wrist to get a virtual watch that gives you the correct time

MAKE A CALL

You can use the Sixth Sense to project a keypad onto your hand, then use that virtual keypad to make a call.

Call up a map

With the map application we can call upthe map of our choice and then use thumbsand index fingers to navigate the map

Take picturesIf you fashion your index

fingersand thumbs into a square("framing" gesture), the systemwill snap a photo

After taking the desired number ofphotos, we can project them onto asurface, and use gestures to sortthrough the photos, and organizeand resize them.

ResearchCollaborationCost - effectiveness

Educational Use

Sixth Sense will give new meaning to “looking something up.”

Since we are essentially talking about the internet, students will be given the opportunity to portably research the world.

They can all go on a virtual field trip and project the images on their own desks, for example.

Research

Students will be given an opportunity through this technology to feel more connected to others.

Although there does seem to be the sense that individuals could walk through life wired and lonely, I like to think the classroom would serve as the environment in which students and teachers using Sixth Sense would want to share.

Not only could the sharing take place in the classroom, I suppose since the users are connected online, sharing could take place around the world.

Collaboration

This product currently costs only $350 (approx. Rs.17000) . From an educator’s stand point, this is minimum given the amount of money spent on textbooks, computer labs and LCD projectors.

For educator’s, Sixth Sense would be a way to put technology (literally) into each student’s hands, because of its size and its cost.

Cost-effectiveness

PortableSupport smulti-touch Connectedness between world and

informationCost effectiveData access directly from machine in real

timeMind map the idea anywhere

ADVANTAGE

The product is not yet released into the market.

There are some security concerns about this product. New inventions in information technology have some kind of security concerns. For example when a person is taking a picture using the Sixth Sense, he just snaps with his fingers which have little marker caps on them. People don’t want to be captured on a camera of a random person.

One can never tell when Sixth Sense is taking a picture, because it is not a big object and nothing is being help in your hand in order to take a picture like a camera or a phone.

This is invading other’s privacy which can be a huge problem.

Issues and Disadvantages

Kinect (Project Natal )is a motion sensing input device by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game console and Windows PCs. Based around a webcam-style add-on peripheral for the Xbox 360 console, it enables users to control and interact with the Xbox 360 without the need to touch a game controller, through a natural user interface using gestures and spoken commands.

Kinect was launched in North America on November 4, 2010

Other Related Tecnologies……

It seems to be that there can be a good future for SixthSense technology applications. There are several things that designers must pay their attention. The digital cameras came into the market. But it did not provide the real quality for the photographers at a reasonable price. Therefore most of the professional photographers still use the analog cameras.

Nano technology came into the world, but the general consumers do not use that technology so far. The reason is the extremely high price.

Future Development

SixthSense devices are very much different from the computers, this will be a new topic for the hackers and the other people also. First thing is to provide the security for the SixthSense applications and devices. Lot of good technologies came and died due to the security threats. It allows the user to dial a number of the phone using the keypad available on the palm.

Continue….

Sixth Sense recognizes the objects around us, displaying information automatically and letting us to access it in any way we need.

The Sixth Sense prototype implements several applications that demonstrate the usefulness, viability and flexibility of the system.

Allowing us to interact with this information via natural hand gestures.

Bye -Bye Keyboards and Mouse.

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES1. www.pranavmistry.com/projects/

sixthsense/2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixthSense

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