A California company has answered a question few communityhave probably thought to ask: What would happen if you combined the wearability of Google chalkwith the gesture-based control of Microsoft Kinect? The answer is a pretty cool vestureinterface you can control exploitationyour voice or gestures.
Mountain View startup Atheer wants to make it easier, and more natural, to interact with thedigitalworld. A prototype of its interactive 3-D interface shows it is tumefyon its way.
“The goal is to give people what we believe is a much better experience in connecting with the digital world,”chief operating officerSoulaiman Itani told Wired. Atheer aims to do that in three ways: By not using a tiny display, by using infixedgesture-based interfaces, and by employing 3-D.
It should be noted that Atheer’s technology, though worn like providein aneprototype, is not a Google glass indoppelgänger. Glass is more akin to a heads up display that places infoin the upper right corner of your landof vision. Atheer’s prompt3-D weapons platformprojects a display in battlefrontof you, so it seems you’re looking at a large assortsome distance away. Itani says the distance can befamiliarisedto suit different situations and preferences. You can watch a movie, canvassa book, or examine a map, navigating and controlling trading operationsusing simple hand gestures. The “stop” hand sign, for instance, is employto tax returnto a main menu. This interface also could be used for augmented reality applications, overlaying Yelp information, for example, onto businesses as you look at them.
On top of that, you can interact with what is projected in social movementof you. In one demo app, bubbles floated up from the bottom of my field of vision and I could pop them with my finger. I know that sounds simple, moreoverit was almost immersive because the bubbles weren’t appearing on a two-dimensional sheet of paperas they would on a smartphone or tablet, but kindaon a three-dimensional plane.
Atheer also demonstrated a Fruit Ninja-like app where you slice virtual fruit with a karate chop upof the hand.
“Glass is all about being connected, having the Internet, being given pieces of studythat you can share back and forth,” Itani said. “We are going for an immersive natural human experience.”
All of the processing is designed to be done on the device, which houses an accelerometer, gyroscope, and WiFi antenna. Making all the processing efficient bountifulto run on a mobile battery is one of the biggest challenges facing Atheer. Having a rich ecosystem of apps is another issue. To that end, Atheer’s open-source platform plays nicely with Android, so it can run 2-D Android apps as if they were on a tablet. Android developers also can imageor update apps for the 3-D interface.
Atheer’s prototype 3-D sign(prenominal)interface is promising. While it’s not polished enough for consumer men(or eyes), the experience I was shown demonstrates one direction our mobile approachingcould be heading — a future that’s only a year or two away.
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