This document discusses the Sixth Sense technology, a wearable gesture-based device that augments physical reality with digital information. It allows users to interact with this information using natural hand gestures. The technology was first developed in the 1990s and implemented by Pranav Mistry in 2009. It uses a camera to track hand gestures and a projector to display digital interfaces onto surfaces. Some applications include making calls, accessing videos and photos, checking flight status, and accessing internet searches through gestures. While portable and cost-effective, it also faces limitations from hardware and security issues.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
▮ WHAT IS SIXTH SENSE?
▮ COMPONENTS
▮ APPLICATIONS
▮ WORKING PRINCIPLE
▮ ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES
▮ CONCLUSION
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WHAT IS SIXTH
SENSE TECH?
Sixth Sense is a wearable “gesture
based” device that augments the
physical world with digital
information and lets people use
natural hand gestures to interact
with that information.
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WHY IT IS CALLED SIXTH SENSE
TECH?
Other than eye, tongue, nose, ear, gesture, this
technology uses an extra six sensory perceptions to
interact with the material or physical world. That’s why
it is called sixth sense technology.
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HISTORY OF SIXTH SENSE TECH
● Idea behind this marvellous technology was started late in
1990’s by steve mann at MIT who actually proposed first
wearable computer.
● The sixth sense technology was first implemented as the
neck worn projector and camera system.
● Then in 2009 it carried forward by pranav mistry who is a
PhD student in MIT
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COMPONENTS
❏ CAMERA - Captures an object in view &
tracks the user’s hand gestures (Digital eye).
❏ PROJECTOR - The projector displays the
data in any surface it can be an
object/wall/even a person.
❏ MIRROR - It reflects the projection to the
perfect desirable place.
❏ COLOURED MARKERS – In figures, used as
gestures or simply clicking images.
❏ SMARTPHONE - A web enabled smartphone
in the user’s pocket processes the video
data.
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VIDEO
NEWSPAPERS
The Sixth Sense can scan
newspaper stories and retrieve
related video from YouTube or
other Web sites, which it
projects directly onto the
surface of the paper
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THE OVERVIEW OF
DEVICE
This device have a
function to googleize on
the internet. So, almost
the whole information on
the internet could be
searched by this device.
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ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
❏ PORTABLE
❏ SUPPORT MULTI-TOUCH & MULTI-USER
INTERACTION
❏ COST EFFECTIVE BECAUSE A DEVICE
COSTS UPTO $300
❏ WE CAN DIRECTLY ACCESS DATA FROM
MACHINES IN REAL TIME APPROACH
❏ MIND MAP THE IDEA ANYWHERE
❏ OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE
❏ HARDWARE LIMITATIONS OF THE
DEVICE, THAT WE CURRENTLY
CARRY WITH US
❏ FOR EXAMPLE, MANY PHONES WILL
NOT PERMIT THE EXTERNAL CAMERA
FEED TO BE MANIPULATED IN REAL-
TIME
❏ POST-PROCESSING CAN OCCUR
SOMETIMES
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CURRENT STATUS
● The sixth sense technology have various security
issues due to which it is not bringing in the
market.
● There was a time a few years ago when Pranav
Mistry had become everyone’s favourite
engineer-scientist. With the Sixth Sense
technology, Mistry mesmerized us.
● But now, sixth sense tech today exists as project
under Pranav Mistry’s name at his personal
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CONCLUSION
This technology enables one to
account, compute and browse data
on any piece of paper we can find
around. Before few years back it
was considered to be supernatural
or tantalizing imagination. But now
it has been made possible. Thanks
to Pranav Mistry, a genius who
introduced mankind to this
futuristic technology
