By: Kit Eaton
Augmented reality on smartphones may well be a killer app, but MIT's Fluid Interfaces group is already moving beyond the confines of a GPS-capable cellphone to create a data-driven "Sixth Sense."
The group, part of MIT's Media Lab, designed a device that gathers data on the environment around the user, searches for information using the Internet as a data store, aggregates the results and presents it back to the user via a display. Think of it as a meta-data system for real life.
Dr. Pattie Maes demonstrated the system at the TED conference. It comprises an off-the-shelf webcam, mirrors, smartphone and a pico-projector all hung on a lanyard. The device recognizes the movements of the user's hands via the webcam (and color-coded finger-gloves worn on index finger and thumb,) enabling gesture-commands like the classic "frame" gesture which makes the device snap a photo.
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