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Kai, world’s first gesture-based workflow automation device launched from city
Kai, a gesture-based wearable controller that enhances intuitive digital interaction, was recently launched on the crowd funding site Indiegogo.
Chennai
Priced at $129 as an inaugural offer, the Kai harnesses natural body language to provide a digital interaction experience. It enables creative professionals and enthusiasts to interact with their digital environment.
Users can navigate desktops, browse through the web, flick through photos or play games and possibly do everything one does in a normal day – all with the wave of your hand or the flick of your finger.
Abhishek Satish is the Co-Founder & Inventor at Vicara, the company which makes the Kai. Vicara is keen to develop affordable human augmentation technologies like AR Visors, bio-prosthetics, enhanced intelligent wearable and in the long-term, exoskeletons. Vicara hopes to raise $1,00,000 to
bring gesture control to widespread business and consumer market.
Satish explains: “Interaction with the digital environment has been restricted to a mouse and keyboard for over 60 years. With the rise of AR/VR as a new medium of interaction and the severe time constraints in the professional creative market space, the typical medium of interaction does not optimize the productivity of users.
A gesture based interaction device like the Kai can process the power of natural body language to interact with your digital world more intuitively than any product in the market today. We are excited to share it with the Indiegogo community and have them help us nurture this unique technology.”
SPECIFICATIONS
- The device Kai is named after the Tamil word ‘Kai’, which means hand
- The entire technology has been designed to fit on a board smaller than the size of your palm
- The body will be made of high grade Injection moulded ABS enclosed in a premium replaceable soft touch silicone sleeve
- The Kai is designed in Singapore, assembled in Indonesia and manufactured in China On the hardware side, the Kai has a unique inbuilt non-obtrusive finger tracking mechanism
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