We know that smart glasses can play podcast and put AI assistant in your ear, but what if they know what you were FeelingThis idea is behind MTech LabSense glasses. They are not yet on the market, but the ultimate goal is a light pair of glasses equipped with the sensor that reads the minute changes in the facial muscles of the users, all with the target of detecting real -time mood shifts to unlocked all the insight into health, eating habits, and more.
Emteq designed to identify, explain, process and/or simulate Emteq “affectionate computing,” is one of the increasing number of companies in the field of technology. For good or sick, the future is likely to be packed with goods.
How do emotion-sensitive glasses work?
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The technique behind the emotion-tracking glasses of the Emteq is sophisticated, but the concept is straight: The sensors in the glasses are intended to monitor the electrical activity of your zygomaticus muscle group (smiling muscles). Emotions you can access on your smart phone.
This is the idea anyway. Whether any machine can accurately interpret what emotions are a complex question for all through facial muscle movement. Research indicates Basic feelings such as happiness, sadness, surprise and hatred are expressed on the face in the same ways in cultures, but the cultural effects and personal differences affect how we display emotions. Some people have poker faces. Some people laugh when they are afraid. And when they are feeling blue, anyone can smile.
Use cases for emotional glasses
I recently talked to Emteq’s CEO Stein Strand and saw a demo. Sense Glass Prototype glasses serve as advertised in a normal looking pair of frames. The final vision for technology spreads everything from virtual meetings to mental health monitoring to diet tracking.
Make virtual meetings more “natural”
“When we are in a conversation, you want to see my face, I want to see you. We can react to each other,” Strand said. “If you want to do this, then you have to know what my face is doing.” The idea is that expression-sensing glass can make avatars and virtual interactions more “real” by putting whatever you are doing on your real face on your real face.
For some types of virtual conversations, it will be amazing, but what will happen if I want No Got bored during a meeting? Either way, the current VR technology can do something similar, but according to the strand, the technique of Emteq provides a better solution. “A lot of existing techniques, especially in VR, are simply more heavy on strength and computing,” Strand said. “We are using these very light, low-power sensors that only see a small part of your face, and we can guess what your whole face is doing.”
Mental health
According to a constant monitoring strand of real -life feelings, mental health may provide an additional clinical tool for professionals. “The standard of gold to diagnose depression right now is a questionnaire,” he said. “Not only this is the underlying bias, it is also a sliver in time. How you feel in a moment, how you feel after an hour, it can be different,” but a continuous record of emotions will, possibly, will have more revelation of someone’s mental state.
For those who have difficulty in knowing what feeling their face is displaying, whether physical conditions like facial paralysis or mental health such as autism, emotion-sensitive glasses can provide a understanding that provides for most of us.
What do you think so far?
Healthy food
Maybe the most concrete application for Sense Glass involves monitoring food habits. These glasses can track chewing patterns, cutting frequency, and food speeds – such metrics that link to weight management and digestive health for research. “You can tell how much you bite that food, how many chews between your chewing and cutting,” Strand said. There are some research Tied food speed for consumption of calories in foodSo in theory, your chewing can help with the goals of losing weight, if it does not make you crazy first.
It may be useful for people struggling with healthy food or who need medical conditions carefully dietary monitoring. But it turns every food into a performance review.
Big questions: privacy and humanity
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With any novel technology, a logical question is “How can it be used to further our daily life?” There is no lack of diastopian hypothetical here, as it is with any kind of affectionate computing. Imagine what the advertisers and abstractions will do with the record of how consumers feel about what they see and experience every day, every day, every day. If they know how bad the algorithm will be Absolutely How did you feel about that tikkok? What if an employer had a real -time readout of which workers are smiling and who are finishing their barks? Imagine how an oppressive government can use this technology against its citizens.
It is probably unfair to pin those large ideas on smart glass monitor techniques, and Strand says Emteq is not pursuing collection and sale of general emotional data. “Now we have philosophy, this is a medical grade personal data that does not share,” Strand said. But promises about data handling are a way of “developed” because companies grow and face financial pressure.
When will Sense Glass be available to the public?
When you will be able to get your own chewing-and-feeling-dancing glasses, the brief answer can be, in the future, in the future. “For some time the next year, you will expect us to do something out,” Strand said. “We are still arguing whether we are going to go directly to the consumer or not. There are lots of ways to go to the market with technology. And so we are still balanced by some of it.”
