Whisper Deck prototype
The “Whisper Deck” is an experimental voice-controlled augmented reality data visualization interface (wow, that’s a mouthful!) The system allows you to don a pair head-mounted goggles and speak commands into a small microphone. These commands are then recognized by a speech-to-text parser and executed in augmented reality in near real-time. Think of it like a simplistic, very awkward non-tangible holodeck 
As of today the system can help to visualize search volume using a tie in to Google Trends. Simply speak the command “compare” followed by a series of keywords and the Whisper Deck will do the rest! Here’s a quick video that shows the prototype in action.
Now that I have a working prototype I hope to expand the systems functionality to do a number of things, including:
- Access to additional APIs (Wikipedia, Google Images, Facebook, etc.)
- New commands that provide visual, 3D search capabilities
- Export options for Twitter and Facebook (say “tweet this” and a snapshot of your page + a brief spoken caption are uploaded to a twitter feed)
Tags: Augmented Reality, flash, google trends, Papervision, whisper deck