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Mistry to help everyone digitise with SixthSense

MYSORE: If Pranav Mistry has his way, people around the world can build their own wearable “SixthSense’’ — which uses a camera that understands human gestures — at a cost of less than Rs 15,000 ($300) by obtaining the software he developed for free in th e next few months.

Mistry, a PhD student in Pattie Maes’ Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab, is the genius behind SixthSense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data.

“I notice that it’s hard to for these kind of things to market in some sense...because I don’t want this to comply with some of kind of corporate policy,’’ he told PTI here today on the sidelines of TED conference being held in India for the first time.

“Rather than waiting for that time to come, I want people to make their own system. Why not?.’’

“People will be able to make their own hardware. I will give them instructions how to make it. And also provide them key software...give them basic key software layers...they will be able to build their own applications. They will be able to modify base level and do anything.’’

SixthSense is going to be open source very soon, said Mistry, who is passionate about integrating the digital informational experience with real world interactions.

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a small non-profit organisation devoted to “ideas worth spreading’’. It started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago. — PTI

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