The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology | Pranav Mistry

www.ted.com At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com/tra.... Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com/ind...

[@harshg7262]

I remember watching this video as a little kid back in 2009 and being in absolute awe. This man inspired me to pursue engineering. 10 years later, as a graduating software engineering i’m a little upset he couldn’t turn this into the next Microsoft or Apple. He was surely ahead of his time back then and still is now.

[@yanjiubai7802]

You are not the only one. I felt this so amazing! I also feel sad it didn't keep developing. I felt this research has a lot of potentials. I think it can help a lot in the development of the XR.

[@hcshenoy]

He grew up and realised the importance of money and sold out. Now we're all reading this on our smartphones instead of walls.

[@S_Suresh]

This was over a decade ago, and he stated in the video that the first object was made around 2000. This guy was on a different level 23 years ago. He also became the head of Samsung smart watches.

[@deeparadhakrishnan5979]

AI pin reminds me totally of this! I've been waiting for this 7th sense gadget with so much excitement since 2010.

[@k2rp]

He was the vice president of Samsung I remember

[@reysalynabrera5259]

The fact that this was 11 years ago, i am now questioning my perception of how advanced this world now 🙆

[@anna8389szczerba]

Right?!

[@stevenamoah9849]

I can't belive it's not about that's how capitalism holds us back

[@adrianesmerio449]

WHEN I SAW THIS in 2014 I wanted one haha

[@deepaksahu6075]

@@adrianesmerio449 now vr is available Boz of this ...n he didn't got any credit...

[@rcfkd215]

​@Steven Amoah so Socialism/Communism is your answer?

[@farzanpanjwani]

Observing this in 2023! And more than ten years later, what he demonstrated back then still blows people's minds. This guy is amazing.

[@sujitsubramanian570]

He is the Global Vice President of Research at Samsung now. Samsung Gear Wearables are his products

[@danielfong4768]

If that's true...Samsung found a Steve Jobs to work for them.

[@indrajatimuhammad]

sujit subramanian Senior VP Samsung Industry :))

[@bananadeer]

sujit subramanian bbb

[@_itrond]

I think Samsung is slowing him down.. what a great opportunities...

[@the_number_one]

Not director?

[@vikrantshukla94]

True engineer he is...from experimenting with 2 mouses and now VP of samsung R n D...a lot more to come...India is proud of u Pranav:)

[@pixxel5392]

We cannot harness our own intellectuality

[@guruprasadkulkarni635]

@@pixxel5392 Harnessing requires Leader with Leader Mindset,Modi has that Mindset. We will surely be at center part of world innovations,that too from Bharat. Very Soon... :)

[@ceylanavci9543]

I am not indian but i also proud of this awesome future designer man 😊

[@TranNguyenVungLay]

Pranav Mistry is truly smart, intelligent and inventor. That's the evolution human brain to challenge the future to come.

[@asmit6377]

Anyone here in 2020? These inventions shown here are 10+ years old.Whenever I see new tech as of now, its bland. And then I come back here and rewatch this video... Ngl the best of future is yet to come.

[@neelmulay8583]

YES! I feel like humanity has become super primitive now. Nothing mind boggling has come out in the last 10 years. Human creativity has slowly died down. Where is this product? Why hasn't it reached the masses? I feel like we are going in the wrong direction technology wise. Apple released the iPhone 12 a few weeks ago, and there is not much difference from its predecessor the iPhone 11. I wonder how many more years we need to wait for the 'Next big thing' technology wise which will affect the masses

[@Ammar-st5dh]

Yes

[@999mack2]

i am the future

[@tusharpandey253]

2021

[@mehtamahrshi7109]

Proud to be indian .pranav sir hats 👒off

[@umamaheswarareddy4725]

The origin of Apple Vision Pro 😀 I do remember watching this video 12 years ago, back in my college days, and getting excited about the future. Now, the future is here 🤩

[@ssudarshan75]

the best comment at the end, "based on the people we have seen at TED, I would say you're truly one of the two or three top best inventors in the world right now. It's an honor to have you at TED"

[@sean7559]

It’s really Incredible. What I surprised is not only the technique he had, but also the insight that at first he thought he should make computer more intuitive to use but finally he found it more important to bring digital things to the reality. Like he said in the end, more than making life convenient, it also make people less like a machine sitting in front of the machine, which probably is a big problem in present.

[@user-nx7mk9rf8m]

A visionary for sure, and to make his idea open source when he could probably make a bajillion rupees... He partly restored my faith in humanity, until I realised its 7 years later and when you google 'sixth sense' 'technology' isn't even in the suggestion list.

[@sibosb9138]

he made the Samsung vr gear

[@CheGuevarab]

I agree this guy is a genius but too humble in this world. If a guy with high charisma ego and ambition like Elon Musk or Steve Jobs had this idea, I swear this would have been a huge revolution on how we use our devices now.

[@psychochizzi4218]

Does he realise he's changin the world in the most modern way in history

[@webgpu]

samsung realized

[@K9unit-v1s]

@@webgpu it's useless none of his tech were meant for public use 😕

[@yashstreamin2826]

@@K9unit-v1s It's coming with new name AR technology. Wait for 5 years

[@tiyasamallick1865]

Yes he realised way back

[@olabisiajoseh9141]

I feel I am in 1900, I also love the fact that he started from a mouse and tried to make it as easy to use as possible in terms of just using your finger tips to scroll, he also explored the possibilities of how it would help our everyday lives where we won't have to use a phone to do the necessary basic tasks, this was in fact the foundation of VR and AR which meta and google is now fully investing in.

[@My10centsWorth]

What a phenomenal young man! Wow. Mind blown.

[@godblessamerica4025]

I might be a little late to the party but I have to say, this might be one of Ted's best and most intellectual videos. Best of luck Mr. Mistry.

[@reiloveable]

my goodness !!! pranav is a super genius

[@futuristicdeath]

reiloveable thanks

[@pranavpranavanil4907]

Thank you 😌

[@pranavpranavanil4907]

@@futuristicdeath ha ha, We are Smart bro

[@user-ob4sk6bh7x]

Came here to watch this video again after Apple Vision Pro launch. His tech was really amazing and ahead of its time. I still wonder why it didn’t become available to public

[@talhazubair4434]

I believe its more like he licensed the tech or got acquired by big corporation and is living his life with equity cheques. Big tech companies would now control how much they want to release. And when.

[@aaditya880]

I feel now being More Proud to be Indian :)!! Thank you Pranav.. Every Indian is proud of you.

[@rajeshraut2955]

@Übermensch true

[@helloansuman]

WOW!!! This guy is really promising... I love this tech TED video the best.

[@VivekDemo2014]

+Ansuman Mahapatra , yes you are right, this seems like best TED Talk, proud of you Pranav, keep it up

[@mirandodelhi425]

+Ansuman Mahapatra promising? TED talk was yeas ago..Google to know what he is today :D

[@justinwalley2569]

+Anath Mohan Vice President of research at Samsung. I'd say that's a pretty sweet deal.

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[@manek745]

proud of u my Indian brother :)

[@Lps-cs4ms]

boi

[@moondogc364]

do you mean like some one who is also from India or is he your brother i'm serious by the way

[@steeles3788]

Manek Ranjan boi

[@shibnu1]

Come to India and you will feel the brotherhood!

[@rrpatel8805]

To be true you won't particularly feel anything....

[@genuinely03]

All of this sounds too fascinating and dreamlike, even in 2023, 13 years after this video was uploaded! This man was way ahead of his time. However, my only concern, when I look at this, is, do we really need so many unnecessary interventions? He says these developments will let us be more 'human' by eliminating the dependence on a secondary device. But, is it not overcomplicating our lives

[@willeklof]

He is now the Head of Innovation at Samsung, working to perfect the driverless car using the computer vision that you see here. How cool is that!

[@mjssodhi]

This guys is from future, I am looking this in 2020 and still looks so ahead of time, amazingly brilliant

[@elatedvids7354]

Mind-blowing presentation. This dude was ahead of the time.

[@puckbucky.5545]

i watched this while being a kid 10 years ago. and i always remembered that it was open-source ... i always wanted to make one. i think its time ^^

[@argentknight7557]

Good luck

[@puckbucky.5545]

Argonout BOY Thanks 😊

[@RandomGuy0400]

I think the website was taken down

[@jeannettemarie7676]

imagine being a kid 10 years ago lmao

[@greywolf271]

Yeah, that's real talent and thinking outside the box. Great stuff. I recall this guy giving a demo previously when he was still a student. Great to see how far he's progressed

[@Sk-22]

This is 9 years old. What happened? Where is this tech? What are you waiting for? Any update?

[@Freethinkercarnivore]

I would like to know that to be honest.

[@colliot2]

I would say, today, a great proportion of these needs are fulfilled with smartphones.

[@anooppdakn9202]

He is samsung research wing head..and have implemented several till now.

[@pefs8789]

My school librarian’s (whose name I will not mention) brother personally knows this man. He told the librarian that the reason this isn’t here is because the public’s not ready, which makes sense.

[@MrTchupam]

AlphaGamma Primal easy.... don’t you see what’s happening to society? People are becoming zombies because of computers/ mobile phones... loosing their identity’s and disconnecting from the phish cal world. And that’s is really dangerous and we start to see that in the young generations. But brands still try to invest in killing senses in the physical world by trying to replicate it in the digital world... we are living a dead tech era.... people are loosing interest.

[@lifeofdarshit]

I am actually sad rather being happy after looking at where he is right now, I wish I could communicate with him and ask himself. He is a true genius that's for sure, he doesn't stop his thinking at" what if..." he brings that into reality. For all those inventions that he has done shows the inventor within him being cost-effective is itself a big challenge, but where is he now? He is now working for someone to invent things for them and those consumer products are those product effecting masses? as he dreamed? Surely this world has consumed him. In my eyes he can be a creator of his own, he must have earned a very good fortune till now and I wish my words can be passed to him because I wanna ask him this question, what about your dream that you saw before?

[@FumaxIN]

Are you there now....? To inform you, he is the CEO of Star Labs, a sub-company of Samsung, and is developing NEON(artificial human), which will be showcased in 3 days..

[@zomyaalt6565]

@@FumaxIN i think he's doing what interests him and whatever he visions as the future now. Brilliance never dies out no matter where you are

[@shikhashreeanima4145]

life is not inside a computer . there are variables ..

[@lifeofdarshit]

@@FumaxIN Great, I'm looking forward for his bestest creations making things better as he had visioned. :)

[@lifeofdarshit]

@@zomyaalt6565 That's true that brilliance never dies but sometimes it does gets hides. I'm sure this must not be the case in this.

[@jayanth1844]

Absolutely mind-blowing ! What this guy has proposed should be the now and future metaverse instead of meta and apple's products like vision pro etc which are kind of distractive to the humans and make no sense. What this guy talks about and demonstrates is a humanizing future where we are truly headed towards making our lives more comfortable with the use of technical rather than falsely being transported to the virtual world of metaverse which many companies are aiming for. Finally when he said we as humans should be more connected to the physical world rather than always being glued to the machines !

[@rider3630]

If every innovator starts thinking like him , world will be more beautiful.

[@KajVO]

Will be attending a lecture with Pranav Mistry next week. I'm really excited :) An absolute genius!

[@belal3372]

13 years later, Vision Pro is born

[@VivekSingh-vl6rf]

I m imotional now to see this vidio such an incredible guy from india and from Bihar ☺️👍

[@emni...6095]

Respect and love from Bangladesh ! The best part is, he is not going for money, he is doing this for mass people. All the best wishes for him.

[@gauravsolanki4794]

He is Vice President of Samsung Research department now. It's all about working for a company now.

[@samriddhiagarwal2362]

Proud to be an Indian . His thinking of connecting digital world to physical world moved me today. Thank You 👍

[@Vinay8484Studio]

It feels great when Indian do this type of incredible invention. Really proud of you Pranav Mistry. You did a fantastic job.

[@studio9mviews628]

I remember watching this video 10-12 years ago, I wondered when this technology will become accessible to us, but it never did till now...may be the big corporations don't want this to happen as it has the potential to wipe out the smartphone and pc market. . Well it's the same thing, that edison tried to hide AC current technology to capitalize and saturate the market first with DC, then as the markets are saturated enough he had grabbed significant monetary benefit from it, he would want to introduce AC. . Steve jobs at Apple, already knew that the technologies will integrate and their would not be any need of secondary devices like ipod... still he launched ipod and smartly capitalised and earned heck of a money, and then destroyed his own invention by integrating it with iPhone. Smart just Smart. 🤙🏻

[@ranjitodedra.]

Sounds better than Vision Pro. Why didn't they commercialize it?

[@Krn7777w]

OMG! 13 years ago! This was way ahead of its time. Why didn't it get more popular in place of iPhone and iPad and Android? Why this went into obscurity? It's not fair.

[@keytonfamilyvlogs6081]

I'm excited for technology to come to this degree. I sure hope I am alive when it becomes mainstream and all the bugs are ironed out. This is really really amazing

[@praveenkumar-xg3uw]

i am proud of him. such a human .he is the man...........you are great pranav sir. great.

[@uniquelearning5736]

He is totally outstanding and amazing.He converted the physical information into digital one by just contracting the fingers.HATS OFF TO SUCH GENIUS PEOPLE.Proud to an Indian

[@samarthpawar6207]

People watching after meta quest 3 and app vision pro, Don't know this existed 14yrs Before that

[@makkanbeda7962]

real genius dont make money with their invention. PRANAV MISTRY is one of it.

[@PRYDEEE]

A genius who shares his gift with others, and doesn't reap the financial gain he could so easily get. Great, great man !!

[@hcshenoy]

He did reap significant financial gain after joining Samsung and shelving this technology forever. Now we're all spending thousands of dollars on smartphones instead of $2 mouses.

[@studio9mviews628]

​@@hcshenoyexactly

[@kajallenka543]

10years..its 2019 and this idea successfully evolved ❤

[@tonystark2593]

Seems Like Iron Man Will Be Getting Competition In The Future. Hello Pranav.. Welcome To The Avengers. :-}

[@pnav12]

Thanks

[@pnav12]

@Ragavan Gopal I just have the same name as him :/

[@delightworld13]

11years ago but where is the application of these gestures... Amazing

[@AdekunleLawal]

Who else came here after the AI pin was released 😅. This technology was ahead of its time it should have been supported heavily instead of the crazy addiction to Mobile devices that we have now and it would have saved some people from the destructive addiction to Social Media.

[@williamroach7839]

I remembered this video and when I saw the Ai pin I was questioning if it was the same guy.

[@saleelann5297]

Just saw future with my eyes. This is incredible! It's 2019 and almost 10 years have passed, this humble Indian just filled in our missing sense

[@sagarsuryawanshi6812]

Now humane promising all this thing as new invention which was already done by Pranav 13 years before 🎉

[@wm7988]

03:54 he talks about metaverse here.

[@naanbutter]

Revisiting this after the recent apple event yesterday

[@polisettyrd]

This amazing video gives a glimpse of what i can expect from Vision Pro!!

[@ankitbafna4430]

If indian govt wud have suported him he would have made wonders and big co on india

[@stellaofthelake3451]

"We human are not interested in computing but we're interested in information." 💯

[@aniketgoundge]

Guess where apple vision pro comes from.....

[@Techkid_McAnthony]

im telling u my bro

[@trunghungpham9414]

I mean... The fact that this is so impressive but we still do not see this in our everyday life shows that people just aren't ready to adapt to that, the technology though is posible, but no one use it.

[@Rushil69420]

Apple Vision Pro just launched and I Immediately thought of this video.

[@celebratingilluzion4926]

Proud of you my Indian brother

[@srinivasaanirudhbellamkond1526]

The current mobile phone technology will reach a saturation point soon from a design standpoint, consumers will soon become impatient and will want something to satisfy their subconscious hunger and addiction for new technology. Samsung will then strategically introduce the basic version of this technology concept to attain a leading position in the global market. This tech was introduced more than 10 years ago. Think about it.

[@yashstreamin2826]

It already has saturated for me

[@RUVIOS83]

its impressive! i would love to see this technology in our daily life and make it more productive.

[@Ruyagozlemi]

The guys is amazing... definition of the mind being limitless in its capacity to think up new things ...

[@helanmaggi4964]

Super sir.... Very proud to be an Indian..... Pls tel us to create these kind of inventions

[@prabhatyadav8189]

That guy is super cool .....genius of india ...and just more than awesome..Bst of luck from me!...always..

[@Belihoney]

I hope Google glasses credited him if it's due

[@_____________3660]

It is a great invention . But why we are not using his discoveries in our everyday life? It's already 2023! That would be great if microsoft or apple products have such future to use them.

[@deekshithshetty1484]

12 years back, those of the technology was insane. I can't believe it. I'll thinking where we are today in technology comparatively 12 years back. Iam amazed with the video he's showing. Anyways thank you for the video. I have mistakenly touched this video, now i would changed my perspective about seeing technology.

[@kasia4549]

Uploaded in 2009? Why we haven´t heard of this???

[@premspal2496]

Kasia K bcz no one want to talk about India

[@hemaldhandhukia2156]

I am from India and standard 11th. In English subject this is 2nd chapter.

[@AyushGupta-yj8jz]

@@hemaldhandhukia2156 which chapter are you talking about

[@RohinWeather]

Because smartphones do most of this now

[@georgechristou7982]

cause its pretty useless. nothing in there that a smartphone can't do better and faster

[@drdas007]

FANTASTIC... This benrvolence happens only in INDIA JAI HIND PRANAV

[@macdeep8523]

ghanta , he sold out to samsung , nothing has happened in last 10 yrs ,

[@mridhulml9238]

Only? Yea you're delusional.. I m proud as well, but not delusional

[@santosnaosantos]

Esse cara é um genio!

[@paragbharadia2895]

glad I watched this video!!! even 13 years from now I havent use anything like that in my life other than google lens

[@jarabe28]

Fantastic ideas thanks you!!

[@viveknanda6696]

mind blowing.........imagination is only the limit for technology

[@harris8948]

Actually he is the real Iron man in this sense. I am just blown away, i mean literally he was ahead of his time.

[@jacobopstad5483]

What an elegant idea! Though that projector can really only be used in dark places.

[@rrsk88_farming]

India is proud of u🙏💗🇮🇳 Keep up the great work What I like is no fake accent..so natural

[@pinkysah22]

Waaaw... What a amazing personality.

[@samuelhodges6471]

I am very impressed. Keep up the excellent work!

[@EthnoKuchToByMohanish]

like Varaha Mihir created meru prastaar (pascal triangle as we know), aryabhatta found distance of saturn and its moons (gave zero to the world), sreenivasa ramanujan gave so much advancement in mathematics..this indian man has given this technology to the world..i hope his name will be etched atleast in every indian..lets not remember meru prastaar for pascal or trikonomiti for trignometry or Samsung or sponsor companies for Pranav Mistry!

[@abulfaizahmed9917]

This was invented in 1994 by Steve Mann. Pranav is not the inventor of SixthSense. To claim so is a fraud. SixthSense - Wikipedia

[@nikhilprasad3947]

I'd suggest Pranav to meet Manoj Bhargaw

[@nikhilprasad2692]

He better work for/with Manoj Bhargaw.... check Manoj on KZbin

[@Nish26]

who is manoj bhargaw?

[@hemaldhandhukia2156]

@@@nikhilprasad2692 who is manoj bhargav?

[@dipankar-kumar-singh]

an inspiration for me! and for all Indians and for all Students! thanks,... best TED TALK EVER!

[@gopal-fh4eo]

very much proud of u bro "if people like you teach our next generation in classrooms the technology will be also take a bow before them "

[@santasrikoley27]

a masterpiece... a great dreamer...love it

[@GanjaBro99]

It is too impressive and it was uploaded on 2009!

[@verano21]

13 years later and we have “humane” developing exactly this because modern technology became exactly what he feared at the end of his talk - kind of ironic :D

[@skrao565]

This is the mark of a genius. Especially that he is giving all his knowledge free!! Open source?! Are you kidding - he could be making millions with that "IP"! This clearly shows that he has real stuff in him! He is not worried about "losing" what he has built so far. This is the courage. I am sure there is much more where it comes from. And what a great heart he has - he wants to make this for the masses! Hats off to him and all the very best! By far the best TED speech I have heard!

[@notes2thyself]

Wow! It is 2018 and we are nowhere close to using what this guy invented around 10 years back. Genius!

[@leojacobson1274]

These help me with falling asleep at night.

[@nwhuckin7761]

i could only think that the reason that this technology is not so widespread that i see it everday is that large corporations have isolated this technology to keep us from enough information for us to stay dumbed down as a whole. We should not be able to quickly get enough information to make these kinds of influenced decisions that may be as damaging to the corporate world as they are to controlling the masses. I love it though

[@abulfaizahmed9917]

This was invented in 1994 by Steve Mann. Pranav is not the inventor of SixthSense. To claim so is a fraud. SixthSense - Wikipedia

[@jerryldavis1823]

Came here after watching the Humane AI pin. Humane ai pin is definitely inspired from the sixth sense technology. Amazing to see that an old concept from mr Pranav mistry has got its use now in the form of AI pin

[@thunder440v3]

Woah, that's one of the best Ted talks ever ! God bless u Pranav !

[@amit_anand_jha]

भारतीय है बस ।

[@Rahulkumar-dg5pu]

Amit Anand Jha महान भारतीय है।

[@sainttanadithana2191]

अमित आनंद झा 7

[@harshnsanghvi]

i came back here after watching humane AI pin launch

[@williamroach7839]

I remembered this video and when I saw the Ai pin I was questioning if it was the same guy.

[@PhantomKThief]

His vision is great

[@dahal.bibek99]

Who is here in 2024? Back in those days on new MacBook i downloaded this video and it was surprising to me and still it is...Newly Emerged VR technology was already invented here....Nostalgic

[@samuelmanickavasagam3704]

yeah..greatsir ...i really admired you sir.....hats of to you sir

[@pixeladitya632]

mindblowing.........when i watch this i m shocked to see this...is amazing....wonderful i am a engineer so i will try to make this more better in future i want to meet u as an engineer not like a fan.........!!

[@maryclaudiapitman]

While watching this I thought 2 things, Minority Report (Tom Cruise) and Back to the future (Michael J fox). The future is here