Living the Miraculous
November 23, 2009
There are many products these days that are truly miraculous. So many inventions and gadgets that really do push the frontiers of imagination, causing us to rethink reality and what is possible.
One of these has been the invention of Wii: a gaming console that uses unique motion-sensing controllers in hand held devices to manage a range of activities defined by the console, such as golf or angling. The console tracks the users hand gestures to decide how the movements fit in with the game. This allows people to interact with virtual reality through physical activity.
On a parallel with this – but extending the interaction between the physical and digital worlds – is an emerging technology called SixthSense. Its inventor, Pranav Mistry, demonstrates its thrilling potential through this short video.
http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html
He has built intuitive gadgets that sense physical motion and can respond by moving information between the physical and digital worlds. Imagine having digital sensors on the ends of your fingers, connected to a wireless device that understands that when you point to a chart in a book you are giving the device the spatial coordinates of the required information, so that you then perhaps redisplay the chart on a wall or send it to your mailing list via email.
Or imagine that your fingers are used as the viewport of a camera, telling the wireless device to take a picture using the coordinates of your fingers to define the area to be captured.
To an onlooker it looks like magic – that you are taking a photo just by using your fingers. And isn’t that the beauty of the miraculous?
Pranav says that the technology can help us be more connected to our physical world. Truly the technology is dancing in the miraculous, yet the technology itself comes from what we know is possible in non-physicality.
Our interactions in the physical, digital, virtual or any other world are only limited by what we believe is possible. People are now more familiar with telepathy and energy sensing, with mobile phones and computers, with Wii technology and outer space exploration – all amazing accomplishments, and now taken for granted. But …
what happens when you take away the mobile phone technology? You have the awareness of global consciousness and telepathy.
what happens when you take away the gaming technology? You have the awareness of interactive virtual reality.
what happens when you take away SixthSense technology? You have the awareness that you can touch virtual reality.
The line between physical and non-physical is a blur of perception. Let’s see what the miraculous is becoming.
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One Response to “Living the Miraculous”
Hmmmmm!!! Boggles the mind which is just where we want it so the seeming miraculous can slip in under the radar of predictability,habit and past limiting beliefs to create a much more exhilarating and adventuresome reality!!!