Techworld's Gift....3D Sensors.

This world is truly strange and we humans just don’t have learnt to stop. This is clearly visible from how we reduced the room sized computers to a computer of the size of our palm. As I love fidgeting with my phone and ipad I still expect more and more as consumer with launch of every successive technology. We wish, wish and wish and in few days the technology is in front of us.

From 2D movies and pictures we moved to 3D movies and now there it is 3D Sensors. What more was left after knowing about 3D sensors that could let us go beyond touch which not only tracks motion and identifies objects, but also determines what the movement of those objects actually mean.

Now days many laptops have 3D sensing cameras which are way ahead of sensing mere shapes and motion to detect physical movements and even the emotional state of individual. These sensors can actually detect and can find whether you're enjoying a particular video game or not by tracking change in your facial expression. It benefits us in many ways as it can detect the face of child and determine whether a child engaged in reading excersise is having difficulty with a particular word or not. It helps to get a 3D photo of your foot to get an accurate shoe size which can help you in online shopping. It could measure the dimension of the sofas in the store and it might show the true size of the fish caught by the fisherman rom the picture.

Beyond touchscreen these sensors can help you manipulate items in screen just as you would do physically using a virtual hand to pick things up. This technology is pioneering and new motion-based interfaces for other consumer devices will soon be available.

These sensors can also be used in cars which can not only detect objects around it but also recognise whether car, truck, or any person is on the way. This facilitates safe driving and in future will help in automatic driving.

We can safely say that this technology would "bridge the gap between the real and virtual world" by creating a level of interaction that is beyond our imagination. So i would say here science is really bliss..!

(Bhakti Donga)