Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

http://www.ted.com At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.

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[MrCouscousable]

@MrSmithDynamite No disrespect to late Mr. Jobs, but truth is, he did not. And I am glad he didn't. None of Apple product is open-source . Pranav Mistry made a potential million dollar invention open-source. He is a genius in the truest sense, a contributor in its truest sense, a visionary. Steve Jobs, although a legend, was also a businessman. He couldn't done donated such a technology like Pranav Mistry did.

[stopwarstartmetal]

Pranav Mistry is the real genius who comes in line with Dennis Ritchie,James Gosling and a few others.Nowadays businessman are also being added to this list.The great Mr.Jobs was an excellent business and a Technocrat.But when it comes to genuine technical skills all "I" stuffs are not really that excellent.Dennis Ritchie invented C!! Pranav Mistry has invented Sixth Sense.James Gosling came up with Java!!! I believe there's no need to compare these excellent geniuses with anybody else

[sKyDrifT94]

@khanmaida it was a spelling mistake when i typed fast.. Thanks for your correction .Ok now i spell it correctly

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[khanmaida]

@sKyDrifT94 how about you learn to spell 'racist' first.

[quosmo1]

this stuff is pretty old hat, and sure he has made up a few gestures by the idea of augmented (and reverse augmented) reality has been around a long time, and there were pioneers before his time : he is just lucky to be in a time that micro projectors exist and cpu speeds are fast enough, the rest is just either obvious or done before.

i was not so impressed with this as he does not address any of the issues with it. It is obviously cumbersome buggy slow ugly and pretty unusable as a prototype

[MexiMike83]

Where can I get information on how to build this?

[petesangyal2]

THIS IS....THE FUTURE!

[ashujchwd]

HE'S FROM FUTURE!!

[ketobi]

Looking forward to this technology...

ONE DAY I will Be able to play FPS Game in LIVE ACTION

[sadhaklal]

If this project sees fruition, it will bring about a HUGE paradigm shift...

[amar756]

one steve jobs is dead but another is born..... Pranav Mistry!!!

[kowsalyaist]

he is genius