project soli: control your devices without touching them
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Have you ever wished you could control your connected devices and smartphone without even touching them? Well, Google’s innovative new project from their Advanced Technology and Projects Team, “Project Soli” could allow you to do just that. Even though we deal with data and voice systems in Knoxville every day, the ability to control them without touching them is an exciting technological development.
Project Soli:
Control Your Devices
without Touching Them
What is Google’s Project Soli?
Project Soli is currently being developed by Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects Team. The entire project is based around a radar embedded into a chip that is capable of tracking human movement. Given that we are now in the age of touchscreens wherever we turn, this contactless control could become a truly novel concept.
This contactless device control is achieved through the embedding of a tiny chip – around the size of a finger nail – containing radar technology into various devices. Theoretically, this chip could be embedded into any device to allow for control. Immediately, we’re able to see the benefit of making use of this technology in smartphones, but other technology could benefit from contactless control, also.
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The chip, as mentioned, contains radar technology which is capable of capturing any movement you make, including “finger micro-motions”, and interpreting that movement as input to control your connected devices and smartphones.
If you’re tempted to write this off as a gimmick, we’d urge you not to!
What are the benefits of Google’s Project Soli?
The team involved in the development of this technology, Project Soli, are incredibly excited about it, and it’s not hard to see why. The Google team is hoping for the Project Soli technology to be used in computers, wearable devices, smartphones, and implemented in virtual reality gaming. There are many benefits to using the radar to interpret your movements.
The technology is incredibly intuitive and precise, being able to interpret even the slightest movement of the human hand. The way the technology works negates the possibility of hitting the wrong button that we often experience with touchscreen smartphones and similar technology.
The Google developed technology can be used almost anywhere, as an IT company in Knoxville, we’re pretty excited about this. Although there are already cameras that work in a similar way to the radar chip, they’re very large and their accuracy can leave a lot to be desired. The Project Soli team found compressing the technology into a small enough form that it could be embedded into a chip to be their biggest challenge. The portability and small size of the chip is a massive benefit to users, both those using it for personal and entertainment reasons and industrial purposes.
There is currently no release date for the Project Soli technology, still being in the developmental stages with the Google team. The open source technology will be sent to developers in the near future, so we’re looking forward to see it in our own technology soon.
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