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Project Soli (2015)
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Welcome to Project Soli
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Google ATAP introduces Project Soli, a radar-based sensor chip designed to track sub-millimeter hand gestures for device interaction.
Project Soli is developing a new interaction sensor using radar technology. The sensor can track sub-millimeter motions at high speed and accuracy. It fits onto a chip, can be produced at scale and built into small devices and everyday objects. Follow Google ATAP on Twitter for updates on Project Soli: twitter.com/GoogleATAP Visit groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/soli-announce to sign up for updates.Why it's here
2 people recommend this, 1 disputes itWhat people say. Pointed to as an exciting development in gesture-based human-computer interaction and input technology.
mellingon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Soli”
Google finally ships a research project in a real product and people don’t seem to understand the usefulness. Human nature for some reason often devolves to “what’s the point?” Here’s the 2015 announcement. There’s a lot of potential. Maybe we’d all benefit from “imagine what’s now possible “ link to this video
fermienricoon Hacker News • Disputes
On “Controlling a Quadcopter with Hand Gestures”
…say - iPad pianos are not fun precisely because of the lack of feedback. I really think gesture based controls are inferior. They have no place in my living room, my car or anywhere in my life. That said, I think the implementation of hand gesture based systems as pointed out in this article are truly interesting. It is a challenging problem. 1 link to this video 2 link 3 link…
mellingon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback”
Better pen input would be great, especially for drawing. How about some form of chorded keyboard or glove? A chorded keyboard was demonstrated in 1968 by Engelbart: link Google's Soli project might lead to better input: link to this video
mellingon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Proton: Multitouch Gestures as Regular Expressions [pdf]”
How long before gestures move off the screen surface? This technology got off to an exciting start but it quickly hit a wall. It was disappointing, for example, when Microsoft had to unbundle the Kinect. Microsoft's Kinect - 2010 Leap Motion - 2010 Intel Real Sense - link Google's Soli chip - 2016 - link to this video Google's Touch Sensitive Fabric: link
mellingon Hacker News • Mentions
On “OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes”
This tool is for people who can't use their hands, of course. For the average person, we're pretty close to being able to use voice instead of typing. link link Throw in eye tracking and precise gestures ( link to this video ) and the keyboard isn't necessary.
mellingon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Using a Custom Keyboard for CSS”
It would be great if some of the repetitive tasks didn't even require a keyboard but rather use subtle gestures, eye tracking, and voice commands. Leap Motion, for example, never panned out but Google's Soli project might get us there: link to this video Throw in better autocompletion ( link ) and software development becomes more precise and less repetitive.
mellingon Hacker News • Mentions
On “How Long Will We Keep Typing?”
No one said that the solution has to be all speech. Throw in some small gestures and that'll be faster than reaching for a key. link to this video Throw in eye-tracking and you can pick out any word quickly.
mellingon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Ultrasound technology lets you touch and manipulate virtual objects”
Gesture based computing is almost here in some form. Apple, Google, Intel and Microsoft are all working on it: Apple: link Intel Real Sense - link Google's Soli chip - link to this video Microsoft shipped the Kinect 6 years ago. The need for hand tracking with VR headsets should give it another boost. By the 20th anniversary of Minority Report? link
mellingon Hacker News • Mentions
On “An engineer replaced four monitors with Meta glasses”
"The keyboard is the only thing I need, except for the glasses." I think this loses a lot of appeal until we can throw away the keyboard. We should be able to do better. Hopefully, Google ships this silicon this year: link to this video I'd rather have those monitors and no keyboard.
mellingon Hacker News • Mentions
On “An iPhone Is an Extension of the Mind”
Paper notebooks might be. link The cell phone, etc will be a much bigger extension. However, we still need better ways to input, organize and access the information. Handwritten notes, voice memos, pictures, drawings, unstructured and structured data, etc. Cortana/Siri with hand tracking ( link to this video ) and a HoloLens will allow people to organize everything in creative ways.
mellingon Hacker News • Mentions
On “My Journey From Blindness to Building a Fully Conversational User Interface”
you can provide audible feedback when you move your hands. Many gestures don't provide anyone tactile feedback. Move your hands or fingers then something happens on the screen. Google's new chip could probably help interpret a series of gestures: link to this video
IanCalon Hacker News • Mentions
On “FingerIO: Using Active Sonar for Fine-Grained Finger Tracking”
Really interesting. Reminds me of SOLI (which is radar rather than sonar): link to this video Is there a way of trying this out? I know it'd only be demo line drawing applications but it'd still be interesting to try.
mellingon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Running Emacs on Android”
Now we need a gesture keyboard so we can type, or twitch, instead of using an onscreen keyboard. Finger IO: link Google's Soli: link to this video Perhaps a modified game controller: link
mellingon Hacker News • Mentions
On “SignAloud: Gloves That Translate Sign Language into Text and Speech”
Someone could devise a more subtle set of movements for text entry. Google's Soli would recognize small movements: link to this video There are others: link
mellingon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at only 22”
i'm disappointed that we haven't made more progress with voice interfaces. Many people are happy with the keyboard/mouse as their primary input devices but combined with subtle gestures like you might get with Google's Soli and we should get a better user interface for everyone. link to this video