Project Soli Google's teach you to control gadgets in the distance

Google does not cease to please the quantity and quality of creative ideas born in her secret research laboratories. Information about one of these projects was published recently and aroused great interest. In this article, we will tell you about Project Soli - a new way of interaction with the handheld and wearable gadget that promises a real revolution.

Over the past few decades, electronic gadgets underwent tremendous development path. No less intensively developed and interfaces to interact with them. In place of mechanical buttons, first came to touch screens, and now it's more common voice assistantsPerforming almost any task. However, Google is not going to dwell on this and are developing a new way to manage - with the help of gestures.

Its essence lies in the fact that a special chip is embedded into the device, which works on the principle of a miniature radar system. Its tasks include the recognition of gestures performed by the hand near the device, and the interpretation of them in understandable gadget team. Thus it will be possible to interact with the brand miniature device that does not have space for any controls. For example, with digital bracelets, pendants or glasses.

Developers have succeeded in creating a working prototype Soli chip, which includes a sensor and an antenna array and has dimensions of 8 × 10mm. This system developers have learned to determine the distance to the subject and, of course, to recognize its movement.

The team is now engaged in the creation of documentation and a special SDK, designed to help third-party vendors to implement chip Soli in their software and hardware solutions. IN Google promise that by the end of this year, Project Soli acquire a fully finished look.

I think that the prospects for this project simply stunning. Thanks to him, we will be able to manage mobile technology arbitrarily small size without the need to accurately hit the tiny buttons and even not taking it out of his pocket. Just some magic!

Do you like this prospect?