Jasonified.

There’s been some great stories of people hacking X-Box Kinect to create really cool apps and services around recognising and positioning people in 3D space.

Here’s one for someone. A system which can automatically adapt the sound coming from speakers on a laptop, desktop, TV sound system based on a persons position in a room.

In other words, I’m sitting in a space where my right speaker is closer to my computer than the left so the “system” knows a) where the speakers are (proximity chip) and where I am (camera, kinect, proximity chip) so adjusts the cross-fade accordingly.

Yes of course if there’s multiple people in a room it’s more of a challenge (read: impossible) but it could still compromise on the “best” sound position to allow everyone to get a better experience.

Cool Kinect hacks :-

http://kinecthacks.net/

http://bit.ly/ifP0Sm

In a recent tweet I mentioned how I believed that location based services are going to be very “last year” and the new next big thing will be proxmity/vicinity services. In other words location puts you in a place and proximity puts you in a room, on a floor, outside a shop, next to a device etc.

(btw I’m not saying location itself is dead it’s just the first part of a process to enhance the offering - you need proximity for the detail)

Just now my Boxcar push notifications for twitter (which should work on my iPad and iPhone) were only coming through on the iPad and it got me wondering….

…wouldn’t it be neat to have a proxmity preference setting that said “I’d like to get push notifications but this is my preferred device (or my preferred device is the one I’m using/looking at) and if another device is nearby and has the same push settings, only display them here”

So, I can have my push notifications set on BOTH my iPad and iPhone but my (soon to be invented and make me millions of pennies) proximity system would ONLY notify me on my preferred device so I wouldn’t get multiple “pings”

One step further is to use my soon to be not invented or patented “proximity chip” (which would be fitted to a watch, ring, embedded under the skin etc) to detect *which* device I’m closest to and ONLY show the notification on that one!

Going further what if we ditch the ship and use a device with a camera that is kinect/3D/face aware which could throw it’s two pennies worth in, telling other devices that IT is the closest thing to me because I’m looking straight at it and so popup the message there.

Now that’s a future I can live in.