The Sixth Sense technology was developed by Pranav Mistry as a wearable gestural interface using natural hand gestures to interact with digital information overlaid on the physical world. It consists of a camera, projector, mirror, and smart phone. The camera tracks hand gestures with color markers and sends the data to the phone for processing. The projector then projects the output onto the mirror and surfaces, allowing interactions like checking the time, maps, photos and more. Some advantages are portability, cost-effectiveness and connecting the digital and physical worlds, while disadvantages include potential technology addiction and health issues.

1. 6TH SENSE TECHNOLOGY
By
M.BHANU TEJA
13K11A0508

2. OVERVIEW
Introduction
Technical Components
Working
Applications
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3. INTRODUCTION
 'Sixth Sense' 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.
 Sixth Sense bridges this gap, bringing intangible,
digital information out into the tangible world, and
allowing us to interact with this information via
natural hand gestures.
 ‘Sixth Sense’ frees information from its confines by
seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus
making the entire world your computer.

4. It was developed by Pranav Mistry, a
PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces
Group at the MIT Media Lab.

5. WHAT IS 6TH SENSE TECHNOLOGY

6. COMPONENTS
Camera
Pocket Projector
Mirror
Smart Phone
Color Markers

8. CAMERA
 It acts as a digital eye,
connecting you to the world of
digital information.
 Captures an object in view
and tracks the user’s hand
gestures.
 It sends the data to smart
phone.

9. PROJECTOR
 A tiny LED projector displays
data sent from the smart phone on
any surface in view-object, wall, or
person.
The projector projects visual
information enabling surfaces and
physical objects to be used as
interfaces.
The project itself contains
a battery inside, with 3 hours of
battery life.

10. MIRROR
The usage of the mirror is significant as the
projector dangles pointing downwards from
the neck.

11. SMART PHONE
 A Web-enabled smart
phone in the user’s
pocket processes the
video data.
 Other software
searches the Web and
interprets the hand
gestures.

12. COLOUR 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
makers are interpreted
into gestures that act as
interaction instructions
for the projected
application interfaces.

13. WORKING

14. PROCEDURE
 The hardware that makes Sixth Sense work is a
pendant like mobile wearable interface.
 It has a camera, a mirror and a projector and is
connected wirelessly to a bluetooth smart phone
that can slip comfortably into one’s pocket.
 The camera recognizes individuals, images,
pictures, gestures one makes with their hands.
 Information is sent to the Smartphone
for processing.

15. CONTD …
 The downward-facing projector projects the output
image on to the mirror .
 Mirror reflects image on to the desired surface.
 Thus, digital information is freed from its confines
and placed in the physical world.

16. The Sixth Sense prototype implements several
applications that demonstrate the usefulness,
viability and flexibility of the system.
APPLICATIONS

17. Check the time
Call up a map

18. Make a call
Create
multimedia
reading
experiences

19. Feed
information on
people
Can be used
as a palmtop

20. Take a picture
Zooming
Features

21. ADVANTAGES
 It is a user friendly interface.
 It uses hand gestures to interact with digital
information.
 Supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction.
 It is portable.
 Cost effective.
 Connectedness between real world and digital
world.
 Data access directly from the machines in real time.
 Mind map the idea anywhere.
 Open source software.

22. DISADVANTAGES
 It will lead to a technology addiction.
 Imbalance in the cash flow and revenue generated
in the market.
 Health problems due to exposure to rays.

23. CONCLUSION
 Allowing us to interact with this information via
natural hand gestures.
 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.

24. Thank You!
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