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The Sixth Sense - This is awesome!!!
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| snak3st |
While it's cool and all, I don't see this device being adopted into the general market.
Major drawbacks that I see:
1. Projector, lots of energy is going to be needed to power it. The device probably won't last long in comparison to other mobile devices. Lighting is also another issue of this device. In extremely bright environments, it will be probably hard to see the lighting from the projector.
2. Practicality, everything you can do with this projector can be done more effectively with a mobile phone. Mobile phones already have cameras, they have access to the internet, they have video playback. I mean I don't see how this device improves on the usefulness of mobile devices out today. There is nothing new, except for the fact that you can control all your normal mobile device activities with coloured thimbles. |
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| LKD |
| quote: | Originally posted by snak3st
While it's cool and all, I don't see this device being adopted into the general market.
Major drawbacks that I see:
1. Projector, lots of energy is going to be needed to power it. The device probably won't last long in comparison to other mobile devices. Lighting is also another issue of this device. In extremely bright environments, it will be probably hard to see the lighting from the projector.
2. Practicality, everything you can do with this projector can be done more effectively with a mobile phone. Mobile phones already have cameras, they have access to the internet, they have video playback. I mean I don't see how this device improves on the usefulness of mobile devices out today. There is nothing new, except for the fact that you can control all your normal mobile device activities with coloured thimbles. |
projecttion has to and eventually will be worked out but in terms of your second point, what this does is basically eliminate the extra device to hold and control with direct interaction as compared to interacting with the physical world and "convert that to the digital world" which makes more sense...the whole OCR/search aspect is mindblowing... finally OCR having more than one purpose...lol |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| I thought I was going to see dead people. |
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| dgame |
| This is incredible! We are witnessing the future. |
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| VDub |
What we are witnessing is the iPhone in 10 years...
Apple will hire this guy... |
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| TrAnCeiN4LiFe |
| quote: | Originally posted by dgame
This is incredible! We are witnessing the future. |
they already got something similar to this. touch screen keyboards if any one has seen one. You can buy it in europe for some 40euros. While this is kool imagine how idiotic you will look going around and doing gestures all day long (ie taking pictures). People are gonna think your on crack! |
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| DeleteFromUsers |
| quote: | Originally posted by snak3st
While it's cool and all, I don't see this device being adopted into the general market.
Major drawbacks that I see:
1. Projector, lots of energy is going to be needed to power it. The device probably won't last long in comparison to other mobile devices. Lighting is also another issue of this device. In extremely bright environments, it will be probably hard to see the lighting from the projector. |
Battery technology will continue to evolve, and probably at a faster pace than it has before. High capacity high drain battery technology is basically the only thing standing in the way of eliminating internal combustion engines from the face of the planet. Electric motor/drive technology is VERY mature and very efficient (and VERY inexpensive compared with IC engines) but the damn batteries still suck. The automotive giants are taking a very serious whack at that ball and there are some very promising technologies on the horizon.
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2. Practicality, everything you can do with this projector can be done more effectively with a mobile phone. Mobile phones already have cameras, they have access to the internet, they have video playback. I mean I don't see how this device improves on the usefulness of mobile devices out today. There is nothing new, except for the fact that you can control all your normal mobile device activities with coloured thimbles. |
This presentation was original research conducted in a university laboratory. i.e. The first proof of concept. What would the world look like had we abandon the first vacuum tube computers because they were the size of a large office and had a small fraction of the capacity of my ty Nokia bar phone?
I think it's premature to say everything can be done better on a mobile device.
Perhaps the projector and camera will sit in your glasses frame or in your bluetooth ear piece, will be very bright and the interface will be very intuitive.
The final result may only vaguely resemble what is in the video, but it looks like this could be the future.... Who wants to drag a whole screen around when all they need is a thumbnail-sized device capable of providing a high resolution large screen on any surface? |
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