THE SIXTH SENSE TECHNOLOGY

Garima Srivastava, Shikha Singh

Abstract: We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognise and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses -- secret senses, sixth senses, if you will -- equally vital, but unrecognised, and unlauded. These senses, unconscious, automatic, had to be discovered.” - Oliver Sacks. This paper discusses a technology which is amazing everyone worldwide in today"s time, which is “Sixth Sense Technology”. All human beings are aware of the five basic senses i.e. Sight, Hearing, Taste, Touch, Smell. Sixth Sense technology was developed by a man named Pranav Mistry, a Ph D student. „Sixth Sense Technology" is used to build bridge between the digital world and the physical world, bringing impalpable, digital information out into the palpable world, and allows us to interact with this information using natural hand gestures. The paper showcases the possible applications and opportunities of Sixth Sense. Furthermore, the implementation approaches are compared and the pros and cons of each approach are explored. Most importantly, technical challenges and open issues regarding each implementation approach are brought out. Furthermore, predictions are made on which approach is expected to succeed in the coming years. Finally, solutions are discussed to improve the Sixth Sense Technology with regards to its implementation approaches to insure new and better ways of human-computer interaction.

Keywords: Sixth Sense Technology; Augmented Reality; Computer Vision; Human-Computer Interaction; Image Processing

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0422009