[ed. Watch the video, it's really quite astonishing. Makes me aware of how much we physically have to adapt to new technology.]
Touchscreens are great, allowing us to intuitively scroll or flick through digital books and photo albums, but Google is trying to take things one step further. Last Friday, the company's lab for advanced projects demonstrated a new technology it's been working on that allows users to control virtual objects by moving their hands and fingers in the air. Called Project Soli, it uses radar waves and a fast frame rate to detect precise finger movements or finger "micro-motions." The result essentially looks like it's been taken straight out of a science-fiction film.
"The hand is the ultimate input device," says Ivan Poupyrev, the founder of Project Soli. "It's extremely precise, it's extremely fast, and it's very natural for us to use it. Capturing the possibilities of the human hand was one of my passions. How can we take this incredible capability and apply it to the virtual world?"
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