Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/23/google_glass_wink_interface/
Nudge nudge, wink wink interface may drive Google Glass
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Posted in Hardware, 23rd April 2013 04:28 GMT
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The user interface for Google's forthcoming tech specs, aka Google Glass, may feature a two-fingered salute and a wink.
The source for this supposition is a Redditor by the name of Fodawim [1] who says [2] he or she has peered into the code of the Google Glass companion app and found the following text:
- "BROWSER_TWO_FINGER_ZOOM"
- "GUEST_MODE_TURNED_OFF"
- "EYE_GESTURES_WINK_ENABLED"
- "EYE_GESTURES_WINK_DISABLED"
- "EYE_GESTURES_WINK_CALIBRATION_SUCCESS"
- "EYE_GESTURES_WINK_CALIBRATION_FAILURE"
- "EYE_GESTURES_WINK_TAKE_PHOTO"
Fodawin's hypothesis is that Glass offers users the chance to zoom windows with a two-fingered gesture and take photos by winking.
There's no telling if Fodawin's analysis is correct, but the two finger zoom certainly sounds feasible if one revisits this TED talk [3] on the “Sixth Sense” interface developed by Pranav Mistry, a computer scientist who also devised a blink-driven interface for a robot.
Mistry has since joined Samsung, an entity hardly shy of lawyering up when it feels its intellectual property has been inappropriately appropriated. We're drawing a long bow here, but might Glass be in legal strife before it even emerges? ®