The proof-of-concept prototype by post-doctoral researcher Gilles Bailly lets you discreetly use your smartphone using gestures. The syste, is comprised of a small, single-board computer with a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor and 512MB of on-board memory, a shoe-mounted depth camera (somehow, I don’t think ShoeSense is particularly compatible with stilettos), and a battery pack–it’s a fair bit to lug around but, in exchange, you’ll be able to turn control of your various personal devices into a covert gesture-based art form.
Currently, the system features three different gesture sets–Triangle, Radial and Finger-Count–and the potential to do pretty much everything short of typing out an actual text message.
According to Gilles, ShoeSense will be particularly useful when you want to quickly carry out common tasks without reaching for your phone, discreetly use your phone without disturbing others, allow for improved accessibility and…put on artistic performances? Er…
I can’t really envision a future where ballerinas tether Microsoft Kinect cameras to their feet, but stranger things have happened. Maybe.
[Gilles Bailly via KinectHacks]
Cassandra Khaw is an entry-level audiophile, a street dancer, a person who writes about video games for a living, and someone who spends too much time on Twitter.
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