Gadgetory

hey it's Josh lonesome from the verge and I'm standing outside of this giant strange-looking garage of atap the secret of projects group within Google they're doing a big keynote tomorrow but they've somehow put everything out today so we're gonna take a look at what it is come with me this is project Ricard six of me a bunch of sensors woven into fabrics so you could say maybe I have a shirt sleeve that controls your music basically some of the stuff that has been done in snowboarding badly it seems like they kind of want to make it into clothing that we wear so the kind of crazy thing that it's doing right now is its tracking not just where my finger is on this fabric is how hard I'm pressing too so if I press lightly it's just a little bit or a key go all the way it also does a couple fingers at once and you look at this it basically just looks like a piece of fabric that's been crossed over thank you through the RIP stop but it's a touch pad nuts there's a good example of what you could actually do with this it's not just eye candy this is basically a small strip of sensors woven into the fabric and it recreates the entire control for your music so I can go between tracks by swiping left to right I can hit play just by tapping or I can go up and down to adjust the volume this is all the stuff you just do with the remote or on your phone and imagine just having this on maybe your pants so now I'm checking out something called project soli they won't tell me anything about it today but we're gonna find out more about tomorrow it's basically a tiny little sensor that picks up movements micro movements they're pretty cagey on what you can do with it but they're the cool thing here is that you can actually cover up the sensor with the piece paper and it's built picking up my hand I don't know what this data means but it actually looks pretty cool this is for stereoscopic cameras looped together and I have complete control of them if stitching everything together and seemingly real-time and I'm using basically an Xbox controller which is I think the only way to have this experience this rig is actually using four 6k red dragon epic cameras so let me do all sorts of fun things to control who in focusing on it's a terrifying amount of power but as you can see it's stitching the images together there's some weird stuff going on here but all in all it's really impressive I want one of these for my house behind me are a bunch of set pieces for project ara what neat app is probably best known for its a modular smartphone you can swap parts out it's really cool it's also not here presumably Google will be showing it off tomorrow they'd have a keynote but it's really what I'm most looking forward to and that's kind of like this garage in general we've seen a lot of things that are cool and interesting and maybe will be something one day but they're not quite here yet and that's makes it wonderful as parts of Google