SONY has been known to showcase its prototype and proof-of-concept projects at SXSW festival in Austin. This year it presented its wearable device that allows user to manipulate music with dance moves.
The device have sensors and microphones that recognize rotation, acceleration, angle of arm and movement of leg to translate those actions into five preset functions that turn your limbs into instruments and allow you to add and control filters on existing tune along with other manipulation.
It seems like Sony has crafted all of these sounds manually and programmed them for certain demos and presets. When I tried the device, it only let me do a limited set of arm motions to alter a couple of songs and play rudimentary digital instruments, using my wrist and my shoulder movements to manipulate and create sounds. The audio itself was played through a Bluetooth speaker.
And that’s another catch here: the device itself doesn’t produce any sound, as it has only microphones and not speakers. That seems like a big miss because it means the device has to be paired with an app on a tablet or phone, which then streams the audio out of its own speakers or through a paired speaker. The wearable itself is also pretty clunky and uncomfortable.
But with such innovations SONY is sure to be denting the world with some revolutionary wearable that is more then just fitness and calling devices. SONY MOTON SONIC project is surely one for future.