Employee Bracers
Multipurpose wearable forearm devices
Wearable forearm units for ME staff. Intended roles include hand and arm tracking for holographic interaction, identity, local agent access, notifications, sensing, and context aware controls.
Why it exists
A volumetric display needs to know where your hands are, and a person moving between workstations needs their identity and their agent to come with them. A forearm is a place both can live without occupying a hand.
What it is meant to be
- Hologram control: hand and arm tracking accurate enough to select and move objects in a display volume
- Carl access from wherever the wearer is, through the same command path every other surface uses
- Identity and authentication, so a shared machine can tell who is standing at it
- Inertial and optical tracking first. Surface electromyography for finer control is a research question, not a plan
- Modular, so different departments can add specialized capabilities
- Calibration at first use and continuous adaptation afterwards, because bodies and wear positions differ
- Accessibility: another input channel for people for whom a keyboard and mouse are not the best fit
Current milestone
Establish whether inertial and optical sensing, and later surface electromyography, can resolve hand and finger intent well enough for holographic interaction, before any device is designed.
- PlannedHand tracking feasibility
Long term direction
A modular wearable that carries identity, agent access and precise input between workstations and shared display volumes.