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Google's Project Soli: Controlling devices using hand gestures​ (CNET News)

2016-05-23
okay so let's take a look at the watch you can see as my hand approaches it dynamically starts to react note are the responsiveness and precision of radar enables us to create these continuous fluid interactions okay but what if I want to interact with more detail that's easy I just move my hand closer to the watch and now I can use a virtual dial gesture to interact with the complication so here you can see I'm using a virtual dial gesture to rotate through these various complications so we've got the messages the weather and the calendar these gestures represent interactions with with physical controls such as using an analog dial because I don't have to touch the screen we can get a lot more information on the display and of course just because they're micro gestures doesn't mean I have to them right next to the device they also work at a distance so let's select one of the other applications the weather for example I'll remove my hand and now when I come back in I can instantly look at what the next weather information is so you can see with just a few solely gestures we can already start to build these rich interactions slowly embedded fully on a SmartWatch so here so it allows to control control home devices from the distance without touching them this is a very first you know prototype is here with speaker very early work but the idea here is exactly the same interaction principles and the same gestures that we design for watch also allow also allow us to control the speaker you can see it's a different embodiment but the principle is the same as approaching his hand you can see that speaker recognize it and reacts to it so in the next Nick yeah so note that the interactions here are much larger than the watch they're several feet the sensor actually consents up to around 15 meters so we can do some pretty amazing stuff for this and this is the same thing that's in the watch same algorithms so as I approach I can you now use the virtual tool to turn it on okay let's try another track what do you think next one yeah that's pretty cool okay but I can also do other gestures more immediate ones like shut up great
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