Gestural Interaction
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Project Soli
Project Soli is a radar chip the size of a fingernail that can register the rub of a thumb against a finger, the squeeze of one finger against another, the wave of a hand across its face. The film documents a multi-year design project at Google to find what kinds of interactions become possible when radar replaces a touchscreen.
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Proximity payments
YouTube – The new PayPal iPhone app seems to use the Bump API to match up two physical gestures and make a payment. (I even like their tacky faux-anthropology video). And Square has just announced their payment app for the iPad.
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The original Nintendo Wii trailer
The original trailer for the Nintendo Wii (when it was still the “Revolution”). The first time we got to see such tangible, gestural gaming in the mainstream. (note how little we see the screen)
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Embodied interaction in music
A set of sketches from Easter 2005 on navigating music on portable devices, written after switching from a 40GB iPod to the iPod Shuffle. The clickwheel doesn’t cut it on huge alphabetical lists. The sketches try predictive text input, squeeze-and-shake movement, audio scrubbing and gestures like covering an ear to switch tracks.