Prnav mistery

Who is pranav?

• Research Assistant and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab.

•Before joining MIT he worked as a UX Researcher with
Microsoft.
•Palanpur is his hometown, which is situated in northern Gujarat in
India.
•completed my bachelors degree in Computer Science and
Engineering.
 Sixth sense
• 'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that
augments the physical world around us with
digital information
• lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with
that information.
• Although the miniaturization of computing
devices allows us to carry computers in our
pockets,
• keeping us continually connected to the digital
world, there is no link between our digital devices
and our interactions with the physical world.
 His achivement!!
• TR35
Won Technology Review TR35 2009 Young Inventor Award. (August, 2009)

HCII2009
Presented a paper on project 'Quickies' @ HCII2009 in San Diego, CA. (July, 2009)

Microsoft Research
I joined Microsoft Research in Redmond as a Research Intern for the summer. (June, 2009)

INVENTION OF THE YEAR 2009

SixthSense wins INVENTION OF THE YEAR 2009 award by Popular Science (June, 2009)

i3D2009
I presented a poster on 'inktuitive' @ ACM SIGGRAPH i3D 2009 conference in Boston, USA (28th Feb,
2009)

TED2009
Pattie and I unveiled 'SixthSense' @ TED2009 in Long Beach CA,USA (4th Feb, 2009)
 His projects

Sixth sense mouse less third eye

Inktuitive quickies TaPuMa

Invent data g2.02 marbo

Project child sun flower sandesh

Ghost in the machine roadrunner

Vet sthiti akshar

 Sixth sense
• 'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface
that augments the physical world around us
with digital information
 Sixth sense
• 'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface
that augments the physical world around us
with digital information
• lets us use natural hand gestures to interact
with that information.
 Sixth sense

• Although the miniaturization of computing

devices allows us to carry computers in our
pockets,
 Sixth sense

keeping us continually connected to the digital world, there

is no link between our digital devices and our interactions
with the physical world.
Used device
 Used device

• allowing us to interact with this information via natural

hand gestures
The SixthSense prototype is comprised
of a pocket projector, a mirror and a
camera
• .
 How is work?

• The software program processes the video stream

data captured by the camera and tracks the
locations of the colored markers (visual tracking
fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers using
simple computer-vision techniques
 How is work?

• SixthSense also supports multi-touch and

multi-user interaction.
 Its cost
• The current prototype system costs
approximate $350 (350*47=16450)to build
 uses

• drawing a magnifying glass symbol takes

the user to the map application or drawing
an ‘@’ symbol lets the user check his mail.
•
• For example, a newspaper can show live video
news or dynamic information can be provided
on a regular piece of paper. The gesture of
drawing a circle on the user’s wrist projects an
analog watch
 Mouse less
• Mouseless is an invisible computer mouse
that provides the familiarity of interaction of a
physical mouse without actually needing a
real hardware mouse.
• Mouseless consists of an Infrared (IR) laser
beam (with line cap) and an Infrared
camera. Both IR laser and IR camera are
embedded in the computer.
laser beam lights up the hand which is in contact with the surface. The IR camera detects
those bright IR blobs using computer vision. The change in the position and arrangements
of these blobs are interpreted as mouse cursor movement and mouse clicks.
• .

The change in the position and

arrangements of these blobs are
interpreted as mouse cursor movement
and mouse clicks. As the user moves
their hand the cursor on screen moves
accordingly.
• .

When the user taps their index finger, the size of the blob
changes and the camera recognizes the intended mouse click