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The Sixth Sense - Minority Report has come!

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haiggy

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This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some.
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http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

The link has a video of it in action.... looks pretty interesting. Wonder what could come of this in a few years... looks crazy....

Have any of you seen this before? I don't think it's been posted yet... and I hope this isn't fake that'd be embarrassing for me... Haha
 
its not fake...

its not even cutting edge technology, its really a hybrid of a bunch of tech thats been around for a while. The big deal is the use of the mini-projector.

Getting a webcam to recognize and follow colors is not a huge challenge.

Looks to me that most of the "image recognition" was prototyped, but as systems like this catch on we will have better implemented standards for that type of camera recognition.

Personally, I dont think projection will take off, its just not private enough.

I think they should invent a belt-mounted mist curtain so you could project into space and not require a wall... :D
 
haiggy said:
Clearly it can't see dead people...
That's what the product is called. Not just MY stupid title but THEIR stupid name for it.
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as long as we both agree that there it's a stupid name. ;)
The device is really cool, but it will have to be implemented better on the body for it to be a household item.
 
Wow, that was pretty cool. Great to see they had a sense of humor about the whole thing, too.

When she first started speaking I was picturing some kind of (more) personal projection device. If they can perfect a way to put the text on the inside of a pair of glasses or sunglasses, for example, you'd have a pretty elegant solution. Perhaps in the future we'll wear special contacts which will present the information right on our eyeball.
 
Ever since the iPhone came out I have been waiting for someone to start tapping that portable computing power to do something like this.

I kept imaging a pair of goggles instead of a projector though (goggles would let you do things in 3 dimensions since you could project different images to each eye).

I'd like to see games built around this software. People running through the streets of a city playing virtual pacman - eating pellets only they can see while being chased by ghosts.
 
this is so cool.....
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