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Is Gesture Control Ready For The Mainstream?

Posted December 24, 2010 7:00 AM

Recent advances in visual and voice recognition are making it possible for you interact with your computer and car the way Captain Kirk and Dr. Spock did with the Starship Enterprise. Do you think this is a useful enhancement? Are you prepared for this mode of gesture interface, or do you think it needs to remain in the realm of entertainment until more rigorous safety provisions make it ready for business?

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12/24/2010 9:23 PM

Sure, gesture this....

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12/25/2010 1:28 PM

Computers yes, vehicles no. I want a physical contact. Physical contact has a built in feedback mechanism telling the brain what has been done. Without that, you are relying on memory.
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12/25/2010 1:51 PM

yes, It's time for change? Gestures=more of the same.

Because the current trend to use sweeping physical (touch screen) controls is a dramatic efficiency reduction in complex command execution versus cursor based visual (eye control) or amplified electro-physical (mouse control) and or voice command infrastructure. It is easier to master though.

some activities are more difficult to master, but may become even more common.

A large aircraft is more robust with fly by wire than hydraulics or cable actuators.

Race cars do not use power steering, because precise feedback is valuable.

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01/20/2011 8:58 AM

Some of you may have seen this video from a young MIT guy...

http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

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kvsridhar

That was the best 15 minutes I have spent in a long time. Thank you Sir. Very inspiring, refreshing and presented by a man who is not full of him self and will have the future cut out for him self.

This is quiet a while back so I am not sure how this interpretation of IT technology has been adapted. I am happy to be able to use what is in front of me but feel that this guy has awakened a sixth sense in me. "Clean slate" sort of an understanding.

Thank you for posting this, I am in aw, Ky.

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01/20/2011 8:40 PM

Thank you ky. Glad you enjoyed it. i was impressed by that young man too,and i am sure there is some of the pride i feel as a fellow-countryman. Like you, i wish him all the success in life that he deserves.

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01/20/2011 9:47 PM

I'll forward this to a friend. He knows more about the subject than I do. See what he thinks. Thanks again, Ky.

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I too would have stood for that ovation. Very impressive presentation.

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On behalf of Pranav, i thank you.

He is yet to put the open-source stuff on his website http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/, and i admire his intention to make his technology available free to all comers. i am afraid that our materialistic mind doesn't give much credence to something that comes free. Perhaps it will be better if Pranav makes and sells his invention.

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05/03/2011 11:05 PM

You mean I could wave my arm and the driver in front of me on the cell phone would pull over to talk ?????

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