WASHINGTON: Forget touchscreens and buttons, as search engine giant Google is working on another project called Soli which would allow users use their devices with their hands movements.
Google has named that Project Soli, the system identifies subtle finger movements using radar built into tiny microchips.
And leading researcher Ivan Poupyrev told MailOnline his team’s breakthrough will be a complete ‘game changer.’
Camera-based sensors are already available, such as Leap Motion, that can capture gestures, but these are cumbersome and require additional hardware, pointed out Mr Poupyrev.
The beauty of Google’s system is that it uses invisible radar emanating from a chip that can be embedded into just about anything.
The team said its biggest challenge was to shrink a shoebox-sized radar – typically used by police in speed traps – into something tiny enough to fit on a microchip.
Inspired by advances in communications being readied for next-generation Wi-Fi called Wi-Gig, Mr Poupyrev’s team shrank the components of a radar down to millimetres in just 10 months, while working with German chip maker Infineon.
