The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology | Pranav Mistry

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Pranav Mistry demonstrates SixthSense in this TED talk, a wearable camera and projector that puts digital information on physical objects and reads hand gestures. It was a widely shared vision of a gesture-based interface to the physical world.

HN people call it a mind-blowing idea that was ahead of its time, and keep comparing it to newer wearables like Humane's AI pin.

“it seems almost anti-climactic that the demo is so similar to what Pranav Mistry showed with SixthSense in 2009”
Input devices & novel interfacesSpatial, VR & AR interfaces
#sixthsense#pranavmistry#wearablecomputing#gestures#projectedinterface

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@redbell2022 · in “Ask HN: What Happened to SixthSense by Pranav Misty”
Let's face it.. it was a thing, a mind-blowing concept that makes you feel like you are dreaming while watching his presentation. It was truly "ahead of its time" back then.. However, at present time, with the buzz around VR-AR and recently, this "metaverse" thing, I didn't arrive to any mentions of the SixthSense or its creator, so I was wondering for a quite time now whether the idea was acquired by an AR-VR company or Pranav got hired, for this specific project, by a tech company. For those landed here by curiosity, welcome to SixthSense, watch now ▶ this video
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@prakhar8972021 · in “Ask HN: What are some of the best non-technical talks of all time?”
Here's mine: 1. Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams link 2. Strange answers to the psychopath test | Jon Ronson link 3. The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology | Pranav Mistry ▶ this video 4. Steve Jobs MIT Class: What he learnt after he was fired from Apple? link 5. Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power link 6. Peter Lynch 1994 Lecture link
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@prakhar8972021 · in “Ask HN: What are some of the best non-technical talks of all time?”
Here's mine: 1. Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams link 2. Strange answers to the psychopath test | Jon Ronson link 3. The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology | Pranav Mistry ▶ this video 4. Steve Jobs MIT Class: What he learnt after he was fired from Apple? link 5. Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power link 6. Peter Lynch 1994 Lecture link
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@ge962025 · in “It's the “hardware”, stupid”
Funny full circle, Humane AI pin vs. the sixth sense demo ▶ this video
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@fidotron2023 · in “Humane, a startup full of ex-iPhone talent, trying to make phones obsolete”
This looks like an attempt to commercialise the ideas in ▶ this video Projectors have a killer problem which is they aren't very bright, and those that are bright enough to be useful are dangerous to everyone nearby.
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@dagmx2023 · in “Video of Humane’s Wearable AI Projector in Action”
After all the hype, it seems almost anti-climactic that the demo is so similar to what Pranav Mistry showed with SixthSense in 2009 link ▶ this video Granted, over a decade later a lot of the tech is in place to do this at a higher fidelity. But the same core issues remain: privacy. People don’t want what they’re up to, to be projected for everyone to see at all times, whether that’s visual or audio. Yes, people can look over our shoulders today to see our phones, but it’s much smaller, and therefore harder to snoop on. the same goes for audio, I don’t want to blast my audio out so everyone can hear either. Imho this will be an interesting novelty stepping stone on the way to more practical waveguide displays in glasses. Where I can have higher privacy, with audio projected to my ears. Yes, people can see the waveguide activations and hear the audio, but they’d have to be incredibly close to discern the same information as this, just due to proximity/scale
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@altrego992016 · in “Microsoft demos 'holoportation' 3D presence tech with HoloLens”
Here is something that never took off. And never will despite the popularity of this video. ▶ this video The difference? Selfie stick does exactly what it says it does and isn't more awkward, lowres, latency prone or difficult to use than a normal person would expect.
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