In my last blog I wrote about how the last year was all about touch technology and how iphone and mobile companies made touch technology a commercial product easily available to everybody. In the same blog a question was asked – “What’s going to be the next electronic gibbon?”
I can’t predict about what will be the next big thing. But what I can say is “Motion control sensors” and gadgets based on this will definitely be the talk of the town. Remember the movie Minority Report by Steven Speilberg, yes you are right I am talking about the technology which was shown. Now its not the precognition, premonition or predicting the future but the motion control sensors based computing device which Tom Cruise uses. Still not clear? Okay to give a brief idea about what am I talking let’s have a look at this video which describes the potential of motion control sensors.
Now what you have seen and heard is a tiny bit from the plethora of what motion control sensors can do. Let’s start visualizing how it affects our daily life and how some of the gadgets makers have already started adopting it commercially. Earlier motion capture technology was made available on a commercial platform to capture animate athlete, martial artists, and other in-game characters in video games as early as 1995. Later on this was being used in movies to capture CG effects, in some cases replacing traditional cel animation, and for completely computer-generated creatures, such as Jar Jar Binks, Gollum, The Mummy, King Kong, and the Na’vi from the film Avatar.
Along with this Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality also allowed users to interact with digital content in real-time. This became help for training simulations, visual perception tests, or performing a virtual walk-throughs in a 3D environment. Motion capture technology is frequently used in digital puppetry systems to drive computer generated characters in real-time.
Gait analysis is the major application of motion capture in clinical medicine. Techniques allow clinicians to evaluate human motion across several biometric factors, often while streaming this information live into analytical software.
All of this started in the last decade itself, but recently this technology has started to be made available commercially at a cheaper price for normal users to use. First of it to start was nintendo based wii console with the help of the wiimote (or wii remote) controllers of course in the gaming world. The next to follow are Microsoft project Natal and PS3 motion controllers, which has taken the motion controllers to the next level alteast in the world of gaming. Everything is not possible at one go but soon you will start finding more and more gadgets already start using it and bringing it on the plate of the consumers.
Even though Sony PS3 motion controller (Eye) is more closer to what I will choose for gaming purpose because of its two button controller more near to my current controller. But having said that Project Natal from Microsoft is more near to what consumer (which not only includes gamers but non gamers too) actually wants. Try imagining impersonating yourself into an animated world, to be able to try out new dress virtually or let say to try out new hair style virtually wouldn’t that be cool? I especially don’t like having a bad hair cut as it would be stuck with you for a month better is animated or my virtual world.
After touch I believe its motion. What is your thoughts about this?
Related articles
- Art of motion control (ubergizmo.com)
- CyberGlove Systems LLC Introduces Revolutionary iliGHT™ MultiTouch Interactive Table (prweb.com)
- Mobiles offer new view of reality (innovationtoronto.com)
- Augmented reality rig that turns you into a character in a third-person game (boingboing.net)
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This seems close to the electronic market scenario of today… and offcourse from Pranav Mistry’s talks in TED…. Keep writing
Have you watched Avatar yet by chance? Movie made me a little light headed but wow, what a great movie.
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Apple has just released Ipad with similar pricing and seemingly better features for their entry level model. Do you think this will affect the Amazon Kindle market? Regards
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