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Paulette Chafe Director of Experience Planning @pchafe

Weekly Update | Monday, May 11, 2015

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creators, innovators and thinkersgood morning!

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five things you shouldexperience this week

intuitive technologies

speech, gesture, touch, sight

it’s impact on how we design experiences will be incredible

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Minority Report was an enjoyable action flick, but it may hold the blame for getting the

idea stuck in our collective heads that gesture control is the next frontier for computing

Minority Report Deja Vu

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five things you shouldexperience this week

intuitive technologies

1. Apple’s 3-D Interface Patent & Intel’s 3D RealSense

2. Gestures Using Wearables - Ring Zero

3. Gestures & Automobiles - BMW & Safer Driving

4. Facial Recognition for Dating

5. Martian Smartwatch Is A Good Listener

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Apple’s New Frontier

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/04/28/apple-wins-patent-on-kinect-like-depth-mapping-technology-for-3d-gesture-interfaces

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/realsense-3d-camera.html?cid=sem118p44830g-c&gclid=Cj0KEQjwmqyqBRC7zKnO_f6iodcBEiQA9T996JVrdUh-N4kJhhPA64DyfMPKx6P99-m1DtrTtsiD3_QaAk-C8P8HAQ

Apple wins patent on Kinect-like depth mapping technology for 3D gesture interfaces. Unlike the Kinect, though, the Apple concept granted by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last week is oriented specifically towards identifying hand and finger gestures, rather than whole-body movements. The patent complements another one issued earlier this month which dealt directly with analyzing hand gestures.

Intel® RealSense™ 3D Camera was the first integrated camera that sees more like we do, so it can understand and respond to natural movement in three dimensions.

3-D Interfaces

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3-D Interfaces

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2407669/intel-awards-usd1m-to-winners-of-realsense-3d-app-challenge

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/saltzman/2015/05/10/intel-app-challenge/70943224/

INTEL HAS AWARDED $1m to a number of developers as part of its RealSense 3D App Challenge, which was launched last year.

Orthosense was a top winner. Imagine one day you're being rehabilitated after an orthopedic procedure, perhaps to repair a repetitive strain injury in your wrist. Instead of wearing sensors to monitor your progress – which are cumbersome, expensive and limited – you simply move your fingers in front of what looks like a webcam and the physician or physiotherapist gleans a more accurate reading.

Or on a more recreational note, envision yourself sitting down to play a game in front of your laptop, desktop or tablet. No controller? No problem. With hands outstretched, you perform minute gestures in the air to manipulate onscreen content – be it dangling your fingers to make it rain, punching forward to break through rocks or extending a forefinger to draw an object in the virtual sand.

Intel Frontruner

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Gestures Using Wearables

http://logbar.jp/ring/en/zeroblack

Ring Zero, the latest version of which debuted at SXSW Interactive 2015, uses touch sensor technology to let users control devices by "drawing" gestures in thin air.By making simple gestures while wearing Logbar’s Ring, the company claims a person can do things like signal lights to turn on or a TV to turn off. The technology is currently on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which runs through Friday.

Ring sends messages to a Ring Hub in order to control smart home devices like speakers and lights through Bluetooth. The gestures are customizable and can be selected by users. For example, a user could program the device so a circle turns on a TV, or a triangle closes smart blinds.

One Bluetooth Ring To Rule Them All

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Gestures & Automobiles

http://www.autoevolution.com/news/2016-bmw-7-series-tech-includes-air-suspension-gesture-recognition-and-self-parking-94511.html

2016 BMW 7 Series Tech Includes Air Suspension, Gesture Recognition and Self Parking Using a 3D sensor located in the roof, close to the rearview mirror, the car can recognize gestures made with our hands within a designated area.

Using those gestures allows you to keep your eyes on the road while also performing various tasks such as adjusting the sound system volume or answering a phone.

BMW & Safer DrivingWith the Flick of A Wrist

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Facial Recognition for Dating

A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words

Audience members at Teatreneu comedy club in Barcelona can set up a profile at the beginning of a show, using an iPad stationed in front of each seat. Facial recognition software then identifies facial expressions – such as smiling or surprise – and starts to generate matches with others in the audience.

It started with using tablets with facial recognition software to figure out how much to charge its customers.

http://io9.com/a-comedy-club-is-using-facial-recognition-to-charge-by-1646020446

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Voice Recognition

Martian Smartwatch Is A Good Listener

http://www.martianwatches.com/

The Martian Smartwatch received an Innovations Award at CES 2015. It predates the Apple Watch and sells itself in an entirely different way. First it looks like a conventional smartwatch. Second it has a line which is voice activated.

Get the weather, set a timer, hear a sports score, ask directions and many other voice commands are handy and convenient. Send a quick reminder to yourself by voice.Voice Commands that include “Send text”, “Read text” and “Reply” allow fast and convenient messaging on the go.

This year it appears Google is looking to take using our voices much further and just introduced a new feature called Voice Access, which will essentially allow users to control the apps installed on their devices with merely their voice.

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