#gestural interface

Major Project 2016 - Gestural Interface to enhance DJ performance

“I have always been passionate about the future technology and the design of technology itself. Having to study embodiment interface has made me realise that technology is not simply just computers and chips but also understanding what goes on behind the design of the technology. I can honestly say my exposure towards the ‘behind the scenes’ of the technology world such as raspberry pis and Arduino really opened my eyes that I can design and create almost anything that I possibly can think of.

SixthSense wearable technology.

I can’t really describe SixthSense in a line. Sure, it is a system that projects information about what surrounds you over objects’ surfaces, but it’s also much more! ‘SixthSense‘ is 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.

We’ve…

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gestures/gestures-minimalistic-intuitive-gesture-based-came

It's worth checking out this Kickstarter campaign to see some of the thinking Sung has done about where we can take the interfaces of our mobile devices, what could happen when we strip away some of the presumptions that we carry with us from all the other interfaces we've used in the past.

Here's how Sung describes his endeavor.

"GESTURES is going to provide a fundamentally better picture taking experience for the rest of us – people who just want to take great pictures quickly without the clutter of traditional camera interfaces or complex settings we never use."

"Think of this camera app as a clear window to our beautiful moments in life. Now we can capture them effortlessly with simple gestures."

"There are no gimmicks or complicated features – it's just you and your memories captured in those images, and nothing in between."

"GESTURES is going to take full advantage of today's touchscreen capabilities and provide a fundamentally better picture taking, managing, and sharing experience by:"

"Replacing outdated camera interfaces with simple gestures so you can take, manage, and share pictures more effortlessly."

"Minimizing clutter and distractions so you can immerse yourself in the experience of capturing beautiful things in life."

"Auto-enhancing images in the background so you don't have to worry about color balance, vibrancy, contrast, etc."

"Rather than adding more bells and whistles, we focus on enhancing the most essential core features of the camera."

Check out this new article on http://eugor.com/magazine/top-ten-movie-gadgets-wish-real/

Top Ten Movie Gadgets We Wish Were Real

Top Ten Movie Gadgets

We Wish Were Real

This would be awesome as well. Life controller from the movie Click

All of us have seen futuristic movies, steampunk movies, or even industrial based movies that portray gadgets that look like they would be pretty useful to our everyday life. I got this topic actually from a Youtube subscriber that had an interesting view on what we would want to see. So, i’m going to discuss a few of the gadgets that “watchmojo” talked about and tell you my personal opinion about it. I seen one out of all of the gadgets they had discussed that did not make sense to bring to reality. This gadget is the Neuralyzer from Men in Black and this is because there is enough controversy going on in the world to wonder whether or not somebody Neuralized and that is the reason you can’t remember why something happened. However they did make a good point about the Neuralyzer being a way to help Psychologists make their patients forget the memories that cause the psychosis that some of their patients have.

The first gadget that was addressed that I thought was a good idea was the Pasiv Dream Machine from the movie Inception. This machine allows you to jump into another persons dream and in the movie it was used for military training so that no lives were at risk. The effects of this machine are similar to that of a concept that can be viewed in a game titled Psychonauts. This would also allow you to jump into someones dream and run around the world doing things you could not do in reality. It could even put game design out of business if this product was created. Most people play video games to escape reality, so what better way to escape reality then to enter somebody else’s subconscious. 

The next one I actually believe will eventually be created in the close future because of the way that technology has been advancing. Gestural Interface is a computer system that is portrayed in the movie Minority Report (the remake). This computer system reacts to a glove that you wear and with just a swipe of  your hand. Of course right now we have the Kinect sensor that is similar to this process, except you don’t need a glove and it actually knows who you are based off of voice recognition software and facial recognition software installed into it. So obviously this technology is not too far down the road. There are also a list of other peaces of tech that “watchmojo” posted and you can view that in the video below.

Leap Motion Device Control Experiments

Human-Machine Technologies is a "nonprofit organization dedicated to helping improve the human experience through engineered solutions that integrate custom software and electronics with low-cost, commercially available sensor technologies." One of their experiments combines a OWI 535 robotic arm with a Leap Motion device. Video #2 shows the NuiLogixUSB software and another shows a hack that lets you control a boat with your hand via the Leap Motion sensor (it starts around 2:28):