Sixth Sense is a wearable gestural interface that integrates digital information into the physical world and its objects, making the entire world your computer and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

1. SIXTH SENSE
TECHNOLOGY
PRESENTED BY
VAARI GUPTA - 03311503116
VISHAL BHARDWAJ - 03411503116
VISHAL TYAGI - 03511503116

2. INTRODUCTION
 Sixth Sense is a wearable gestural interface that
integrates digital information into the physical
world and its objects, making the entire world
your computer and lets us use natural hand
gestures to interact with that information.
 Sixth Sense bridges the gap by bringing
intangible digital information out into the
tangible world and allowing us to interact with
this information via natural hands.
 It can turn any surface into a touch-screen for
computing, controlled by simple hand gestures
 It is not that kind of technology which is aimed at
changing human habits but causing computers
and other machines to adapt to human needs

3. HISTORY
Steve Mann is the
father of Sixth Sense
Technology who made
wearable computer in
1990. He implemented
the Sixth Sense
Technology as the neck
worn projector with a
camera system
There after it was used
and implemented by an
Indian, Pranav Mistry , a
PhD student in the Fluid
Interfaces Group at the
MIT Media Lab.

4. COMPONENTS
 The Sixth Sense prototype is comprised of a pocket
projector, a mirror and a camera.
 The hardware components are coupled in a pendant
like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and
the camera are connected to the mobile computing
device in the user’s pocket.
 The Main Components:
 Camera
 Projector
 Mirror
 Mobile Component
 Colored Markers

5.  Captures an object in
view and tracks the
user’s hand gestures
 It sends the data to
smart phone.
 It acts as a digital eye,
connecting you to the
world of digital
information.
 The projector
projects visual
information enabling
surfaces and physical
objects to be used as
interfaces.
 The projector itself
contains a battery
with 3 hours of
battery life.
 A tiny LED projector
displays data sent
from the smart phone
on any surface in
view–object, wall or
CAMERA PROJECTOR
MOBILE
COMPONENT
 Mobile translates color
marker’s action in form of
gesture that captured by the
camat the tip of user.
 Mobile behaves as a
computer for processing

6.  The mirror reflects the
projection coming out
from the projector and
thus helps in projecting
onto the desired
locations on walls or
surfaces.
 The user manually can
change the tilt of the
mirror to change the
location of the
projection.
MIRROR COLOR MARKERS
 It is at the tip of the
user’s fingers .
 Marking the user’s
fingers with red,
yellow, green, and blue
tape helps the webcam
recognize gestures.
 The movements and
arrangements of these
markers are interpreted
into gestures that act
as interaction
instructions for the
projected application
interfaces.

7. WORKING PRINCIPLE

8. APPLICATIONS
Viewing Map Taking
Pictures
Drawing
Application
Making Calls
Creating multimedia
reading experience

9. Check the time by
virtual watch
Zooming features
Get flight updates Product
information
Book
information

10. ADVANTAGES
 Portable.
 Supports multi-touch and multi-use interaction.
 Connectedness between world and information.
 Cost effective(around $ 350- approx. Rs 15,600)
 Data access directly from machine in real time.
 Mind map the idea anywhere.
 It is an open source.
 We can access our work from anywhere.
 We can take photos and organize them on any floor.
 Help in education field.
 Sixth Sense can work as fifth Sense for disabled person.

11. DISADVANTAGES
 The product is not yet released into the market .
 Health issues regarding Sixth Sense’s projection
technology.
 It is still being modified and tested .
 Concerns about the pricing .
 We have to give absolutely correct instructions.
 The projector runs on battery and if it get discharged it
won’t work.
 Huge disadvantage is that there is no privacy while
capturing picture even a person don’t know you are
capturing his picture.
 When a device projecting on a hard surface, people
around you can see the projection.
 Projection is not good in a morning and bright areas.

12. CONCLUSION
 Sixth Sense recognizes the objects around us, displaying
information automatically and letting us to access it in any
way we need.
 The Sixth Sense prototype implements several applications
that demonstrate the usefulness, viability and flexibility of
the system.
 The potential of becoming the ultimate "transparent" user
interface for accessing information about everything
around us.
 Allowing us to interact with this information via natural
hand gestures

13. REFERENCE
1. http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
2. http://www.pranavmistry.com
3. P. Mistry, P. Maes. Sixth Sense – A Wearable Gestural Interface. To be
appeared in SIGGRAPH Asia 2009, Emerging Technologies. Yokohama,
Japan. 2009
4. P. Mistry. The thrilling potential of Sixth Sense technology TED India 2009.
Mysore, India
5. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org Rao, S.S.;
Electron. & Commun. Eng., Anna Univ. of Technol., Coimbatore, India This
paper appears in: Communication and Computational Intelligence
(INCOCCI), 2010 International Conference on
Issue Date: 27-29 Dec. 2010
On page(s): 336 - 339
Location: Erode
E-ISBN: 978-81-8371-369-6
References Cited: 11
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