# Telepointer

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{{Short description|Gesture-based wearable computer system}}
thumb|Mann wearing the Telepointer<ref name="IEEE"/>

'''Telepointer''' is a neck-worn [gestural interface](/source/Gesture_recognition) system developed by [MIT Media Lab](/source/MIT_Media_Lab) student [Steve Mann](/source/Steve_Mann_(inventor)) in 1998.<ref name="IEEE" /> Mann originally referred to the device as "'''Synthetic Synesthesia of the Sixth Sense'''".<ref name="cyborg"/> In the 1990s and early 2000s, Mann used this project as a teaching example at the [University of Toronto](/source/University_of_Toronto).<ref name="IIP"/>

==Aremac projector==
thumb|Closeup of dome pendant showing the "aremac" projector
thumb|Early breadboard prototype of the aremac

Mann developed a laser-based infinite depth-of-focus projector, called an "aremac", to project onto any [3D](/source/Three-dimensional_space) surface without focus adjustment<ref name="IIP"/> The projector originally displayed [vector graphics](/source/vector_graphics) rather than raster graphics.<ref name="IIP"/> A [raster graphics](/source/raster_graphics) version based on a miniature wearable micromirror projector was developed in 2001, which could project onto the wearer's hands, other objects, or the floor or ground, allowing it to work with both hand or foot gestures.

==See also==
* [SixthSense](/source/SixthSense), a similar, later, device

==References==
<references>

<ref name="IEEE" >"[http://www.eyetap.org/papers/docs/telepointer.pdf Telepointer: Hands-Free Completely Self Contained Wearable Visual Augmented Reality without Headwear and without any Infrastructural Reliance]", IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computing (ISWC00), pp. 177, 2000, Los Alamitos, CA, USA</ref>
<ref name="cyborg" >"Cyborg: Digital Destiny and Human Possibility in the Age of the Wearable Computer", Steve Mann with Hal Niedzviecki, {{ISBN|0-385-65825-7}} (Hardcover), Random House Inc, 304 pages, 2001.</ref>
<ref name="IIP">Intelligent Image Processing, John Wiley and Sons, 2001</ref>

</references>

==External links==
* {{official|http://wearcam.org/telepointer.htm}}

Category:Virtual reality
Category:Gesture recognition

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