Pi Port™ Inc is developing a novel platform for technology that amalgamates AR (Augmented Reality) and Visual Reality along with perceptual Computing taking Human-Computer Interaction to the next generation. Pi Port Inc™ envisioned a dream of revolutionizing the way users interact with their machines, making it more accessible, effortless and seamless in providing the ultimate thrilling experience. In pursuit of that dream Pi Port™ created their ground-breaking application -Thin Air™.
Thin Air™ is a completely touch-less interface, meaning no physical touch of a user is required to perform actions and tasks. This intuitive interface helps the user interact and execute all the complex inputs and instructions without involving of any proximity hardware like a controller, a glove, or a near field sensor. The current gesture-based algorithms are unable to provide a fine degree of control needed in operating systems wherein data input with the precision of a keyboard, mouse or touchpad is required. They are limited to executing basic commands such as those of starting or stopping an application, or moving from one screen to another, or triggering an event. Thin Air™ uses Augmented Reality to deploy a layer in the foreground of the user to display the controls, navigation tools and menus. For example ThinAir's virtual keyboard creates an illusion of a keyboard floating in the space between the user and the desktop. Users feel they’re pressing keys out of thin air while typing the text. A complete range of text typing capabilities are currently impossible using available gestures algorithm. They are limited to executing basic commands such as those of starting or stopping an application, or triggering an event. Besides VIRTUAL KEYBOARD, ThinAir also provides various means of data input such as a full function MOUSE POINTER , an ultra precision PEN, a smooth PAGE SCROLLER,and ONSCREEN NAVIGATION LINKS AND ICONS, in a virtual translucent interface that apparently appears to float in the 3D space between the user and the display screen. Voice-based options such as voice-activated commands, text-to-voice and voice-to-text conversions are also incorporated in the ThinAir interface. User's silhouette guides the user to move his hands and fingers to execute any command of desire with ease. Here’s a demo:
The Pi Port™ technology is a broad platform capable to address every conceivable user need from productivity to entertainment and everything in between. The uses for Thin Air™ range from personal, educational, business & entertainment purposes. It works perfectly for presentations giving them a unique futuristic look. Many designers and project development companies have displayed interest in this technology during our market research phase. Collaboration on projects will also be one of the many uses for Thin Air™. The technology involves depth, motion, differentiation & face recognition algorithms to accomplish an intuitive and seamless experience for the user. We've already seen innovations in user-interfaces such as Apple's Siri and Google Now, and with gesture recognition in products like Microsoft's Kinect and a combination of both in the Xbox One. What makes Thin Air™ different from others is that it places the complete control of a computer in user's hand gestures instead of implementing merely a few functions piecemeal.
Thin Air™ is one of the finalists in Intel's global Perceptual Computing Challenge. Check out the next post for the details.
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