For several technological solutions, Google works with several academics. Two of the passed technologies, VR controllers and smart tattoos, have been checked. The Google Faculty of Science Award funded these ideas.
Google attempts to place the toe on wearable devices. To this end, Google financed $370 million in products including watches, earbuds, jackets and jeans. Google also made collaboration with Levi and Adidas for smart fabric wear. But the ideas have flopped.
Google has always built and enforced the lives of people by making them smarter and using regular AI commands to automatically monitor them.
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Smart Tattoo
A temporary tattoo that turns your body into a living touchpad when added to your skin. A SkinMarks project uses rubbed tattoos to make the skin a touchpad.
The sensors mounted on tattoos are applied to any part of the body like fingers. Standard movements or even gestures will activate the sensors. However, there are certain movements that are often more common for operating on the surface of the skin. You can flex or extend the fingers or limbs around the tattoo to trigger the sensors.
The tattoos are made of tattoo paper by printing screens. The paper is then treated thermally so that it is added to the skin. Some tattoos of the prototype contain cartoon diagrams or lights. The project is partially funded by a Google Faculty Research Award led by researchers from the University of Saarland in Germany.
Grabity
Built-in partnership with Stanford researchers is designed to simulate the feeling of grasping and picking up objects in VR.
This places your fingers as if you are holding a can. This uses subtle vibrations or haptics to mimic the illusion that a tiny object is picked up in VR games. The system incorporates two tiny motors known as voice coil actuators, to emit the vibrations into your hands. The bottom has an arm which swings forward and back and provides a sense of inertia when waving the item in your hand.
SmartSleeve
The SmartSleeve device looks like a web shooter of spiderman. Pressure-sensitive sensors are threaded into the material. Twisting, stretching and folding the fabric can be used in 22 different styles of movements. This is also possible to understand when users bend their arms or pass the material on to their elbows.
Jacquard has created a range of products, including a denim jacket manufactured in collaboration with Levi’s, which was published in 2015. The jacket allows you to control music or change traffic by swiping the sleeve cuff. University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria and at Saarland University developed the SmartSleeve prototype.
StretchEBand
StretchEBand also integrates sensors into fabrics such as a watchband, cell phone box, stuffed animal, or inside a vehicle. The StretchEBand was made by the researchers at the Austrian school.
Source: CNET
