Project Soli is a more amazing interactive technology than Apple Watch

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Apple's first smartwatch, Apple Watch, attracted a lot of attention when it was launched, and its revolutionary Force touch pressure-sensitive touch interaction technology played a big role. However, at this year's Google Developer Conference, the Project Soli technology released by Google's ATAP team is more subversive than the interaction method of Apple Watch.

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Compared with Force touch pressure-sensitive touch, Google's new technology is obviously more technologically advanced. It uses micro-radar to capture sub-millimeter finger and hand movements, and uses it to control a variety of devices.

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Project Soli is an interactive system based on radio wave reflection. Radio waves with a wavelength of 5mm are capable of capturing fine movements within a spatial range of 5m. The technical challenge is that the radio wave transmitters currently on the market are too large.

The goal of Project Soli is to put a radio wave transmitter + receiver on a watch, integrating the radio wave transmitting antenna and receiving antenna into a chip the size of a quarter coin - but as of the time of this sharing, this goal has not been achieved. The device used in this demonstration is about the size of half a palm.

ATAP's contributors said they plan to release Project Soli devices within 10 months and to release the project's SDK kit later this year. This cool interactive method has a lot of room for imagination in future application scenarios. Let's take a look at a few demonstration animations first.

Control watch to adjust time & map navigation

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Control the volume of the speaker & switch songs

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Adjust the headphone volume remotely

Official promotional video