Recently, Google has unveiled its new pet project, codenamed Soli, which allows a user to interact with the virtual system using touchless gesture technology. It translates our precise finger movements into commands, that is recognized by gadget, using miniature radar, built into it. During its unveiling at Google I/O ATAP, presenters were able to turn the hours of a clock, by mimicking an imaginary dial movement.
The man behind this project, Ivan Poupyrev, stated in his interview, that it was always his passion to capture the movements of the human hand, the reason being its preciseness, and the diversity, it contains. The applications are limitless. The main idea is to use the radio frequency spectrum to track the twitches and micromotions of our hand and fingers and convert it to into digital commands. Soli sensor technology works via emitting electromagnetic waves in a broad beam. The system (known as full-gesture recognition pipeline) records the energy scattered by the objects, within the beam, with the help of a radar antenna, at a very high frame rate (10,000 fps). The reflected signals contain the characteristics of the object, which is processed by tailor-made radar sensing paradigm, that tracks specific gesture information, allowing it to convert those Doppler signals to actual Human intent. The advantage of using radar is that it has no moving parts, can work through objects, very precise because of millimeter-wave technology, and scaled down to a microchip, making it reliable and accurate.
So, now you can turn the volume up, or play/pause your next song, without even touching the device. Makes life easier, isn’t it? While this sounds very impressive, this isn’t the first time, gesture technology has been used, to create such gadgets. It has been in the market for years, from wired gloves to Leap Motion to Airwriting. We will have to wait and see, how far, can Google take this to. Development kits for Project Soli are expected to be shipped later this year.
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Worth reading, informative.
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Wow, I have never heard of Soli, but I will keep an eye out later this year. Sound really interesting.
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Such interesting information. It’s interesting to hear about Ivan Poupyrev having a passion to capture the movements of the human hand and how he used that to make Soli
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Wow…never heard of it…but definitely will keep my eyes open for more information. Sounds very interesting. Thanks for sharing
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This sounds very cool. As a big techie myself I love stuff like this. I feel like I’ve been waiting forever for a Minority Report style interface.
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This is very intriguing indeed. But what came to my mind immediately is how will they test this before releasing. For example, my hands sweat a lot and as a result, often biometrics fail. So, what would happen with this?
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This is a cool gadget and I can’t believe technologies are just getting better. I love how slick this gadget is.
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Let’s see how the public will receive this new technology. 🙂 Personally, I think it’s still a few years away before it can be fully embraced by the general public.
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I don’t know about this. I think the first product to come out will likely have lots of kinks to work out.
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It does sound like an interesting project and it could work if the distance is big enough. For example, I would like to control the radio in the other side of the room with a gesture, without having to get up and go to it. For nearby objects I don’t see the use.
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WOW that is so neat! Crazy what can be done in tech these days. This is my first time hearing about Soli!
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This sounds so cool! Its amazing what technology is capable of nowadays, I’ll have to look into getting this.
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I haven’t heard of this before. But I’m intrigued. I love Google, so I’ll have to look into this.
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Mind-blown. This is so crazy cool. Love this invention and cannot wait till it becomes mainstream.
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This is super cool! This sound like a technology I saw in a BMW vehicle one time. The driver of the car just needed to wave their hand to either change the channel or the volume on the radio. It was super cool!
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Interesting. Sounds very cool. I will check out Soli once it hits the market.
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I would love to take a closer look at Soli! I think mimic technology would be so cool and like you said, have truly limitless capabilities.
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Soli sounds so cool, technologies are getting better day by day. Ivan Poupyrev idea is really cool, a gadget which reads hand gestures, very cool idea. Great post.
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This is really interesting. I would love to take a closer look at Soli! Great post.
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I had never heard of Soli. Sounds so cool. Tech progress is always amazing!
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Wow, such a great new gadget! I would like to learn more about Soli as it becomes more mainstream.
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Technology is getting more advanced than I think I will be able to understand. At what age does a person need their children to help them out? Is 31 too soon? Seriously, though I can see how this would be good, especially against the spread of germs if we can change things without touching.
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This would make me feel like I had magic powers! Its incredible the advances of technology but it does scare me a bit.
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As amazing it is, it also begs the question, will technology and AI make us more disconnected than connected? That said, it surely can be handy technology for medical, disability, and old-age aid systems. Let’s see what becomes!
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This technology is amazing and so advanced. It’s remarkable what we are able to do with our smartphones and other every day devices that we use regularly.
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Wow! This is amazing. I can’t believe how technology make everything so easy. I will have to check on this!
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Nice! Have never heard of this so far. Glad to see some competition!
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That’s neat! There’s so many cool devices that’s out there these days. Might look into this!
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I don’t have idea about Google’s new endeavor, Soli. but now I get some information regarding this matter. it’s a great post. 🙂
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Wow I hadn’t heard of Soli or gesture Technology! Interesting, but it if it is Bluetooth or wireless I’d have to pass. I do take EMF’s into consideration.
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Each and every day, technology becomes more advanced and we should embrace it. I’m only hearing of Soli from you but I’m glad you’ve introduced me to it.
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Wow Soli seems so futuristic and awesome. My husband loves gadgets like that, I will have to keep my eye out for it.
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This is exciting and scary at the same time. Too much technology
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This sounds cool! I am up to try anything like this but yes, it’s a bit scary.
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To be honest, I never heard about Soli before. But it looks really cool and interesting. I am definitely checking this out.
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Technology is so amazing, finding new applications for the simplest things.
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Sounds fascinating! Have never heard of this technology before.
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It may have been around before but I haven’t heard of it until now. Wait, maybe I have…the bathroom water and dryers sometime s have wave technology. I wonder if that is radar or along the same lines as this here.
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Very interesting- I’ve heard of Soli until reading this article!
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