Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The latest futuristic projects from Google’s ATAP lab”.
Hey it’s Josh lonesome from the verge and I’m standing outside of this giant strange-looking garage of atap, the secret of projects group within Google they’re doing a big keynote tomorrow, but they’ve somehow put everything out today. So we’re gon na take a look at what it is. Come with me, this is project Ricard, six of me, a bunch of sensors woven into fabrics, so you could say. Maybe I have a shirt sleeve that controls your music. Basically, some of the stuff that has been done in snowboarding badly. It seems like they kind of want to make it into clothing that we wear, so the kind of crazy thing that it’s doing right now is its tracking, not just where my finger is on this fabric is how hard I’m pressing too. So if I press lightly, it’s just a little bit or a key go all the way.
It also does a couple fingers at once and you look at this. It basically just looks like a piece of fabric. That’S been crossed over. Thank you through the RIP stop, but it’s a touch pad nuts there’s a good example of what you could actually do with this. It’S not just eye candy. This is basically a small strip of sensors woven into the fabric and it recreates the entire control for your music.
So I can go between tracks by swiping left to right. I can hit play just by tapping or I can go up and down to adjust the volume. This is all the stuff you just do with the remote or on your phone and imagine just having this on. Maybe your pants. So now I’m checking out something called project soli. They won’t tell me anything about it today, but we’re gon na find out more about tomorrow.
It’S basically a tiny little sensor that picks up movements, micro movements, they’re pretty cagey, on what you can do with it, but they’re. The cool thing here is that you can actually cover up the sensor with the piece paper and it’s built. Picking up my hand, I don’t know what this data means, but it actually looks pretty cool.
This is for stereoscopic cameras, looped together, and I have complete control of them if stitching everything together and seemingly real-time and I’m using basically an Xbox controller, which is, I think, the only way to have this experience. This rig is actually using four 6k red dragon. Epic cameras, so let me do all sorts of fun things to control who, in focusing on it’s a terrifying amount of power, but as you can see, it’s stitching the images together, there’s some weird stuff going on here, but all in all, it’s really impressive.
I want one of these, for my house behind me: are a bunch of set pieces for project ara. What neat app is probably best known for its a modular smartphone. You can swap parts out, it’s really cool, it’s also not here. Presumably, Google will be showing it off tomorrow. They’D have a keynote, but it’s really what I’m most looking forward to and that’s kind of like this garage in general, we’ve seen a lot of things that are cool and interesting and maybe will be something one day, but they’re not quite here yet and that’s makes It wonderful as parts of Google .