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SixthSense To Go Open Source!
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Pranav Mistry, the Indian genius researcher from MIT, announces plans to provide all the open source software for his revolutionary project prototype SixthSense, starting next month.
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Monday, November 09, 2009:
Pranav Mistry, a 28-year-old research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, on Sunday demonstrated the latest version of 'SixthSense' at the TEDIndia conference, in Mysore. Pranav is the genius behind SixthSense, a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. Pranav now plans to open-source his project (make the code freely available) in less than a month.
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The SixthSense prototype comprises a pocket projector, mirror and camera worn in a pendant-like mobile device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to a mobile computing device in the user's pocket. The system projects information onto the surfaces and physical objects around us, making any surface into a digital interface; the camera recognises and tracks both the user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision-based techniques.
SixthSense uses simple computer-vision techniques to process the video-stream data captured by the camera and follows the locations of coloured markers on the user's fingertips (which are used for visual tracking). In addition, the software interprets the data into gestures to use for interacting with the projected application interfaces. SixthSense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction.
The current prototype system costs approximate $350 (around Rs 15,000) to build. "I am trying to make this tech available to people, and I will provide all the open source software for SixthSense starting next month," The Economic Times quoted Pranab as saying.
SixthSense was first presented by Pranab at a TED Conference in February 2009.
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