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.
Especially towards the end, where they nshow possible applications, it becomes really interesting from the perspective of the field of real time economy.
Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.h tml
very nice, I do wonder how much this is going to cost, but when the product will be in the store I might not care that much.
The devices are build from components, that are off the shelve.
"the components only cost $350 at this moment in time", according to Pattie Maes.
The components:
Colour caps
Mirror
Phone
Camera
Projector.
well, could you get me a pdf with the scematics, the address of the local radio shack and we go at it for a weekend, but maybe the total is a lot more than the parts in this case.
It's of course the software that links up the different devices, what makes the product into what it is. The costs of reproducing this software will, as you know, be very low.
I think that there should be a separate seed for 'Augmented reality' on this site.
A definition:
Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data (virtual reality), where computer graphics objects are blended into real footage in real time.
I was made aware of what Microsoft is doing on the topic:
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090228/microsoft-off ice-labs-vision-2019-video/
Interesting.
