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Biometric Compass

Stanleylefty
Stanleylefty
First Post
May 2022
edited May 2022
in Prosthetics, wearables, and haptics

I just recently purchased an Apple watch series 7 and thought of this idea would it be possible to use the hand gesture, haptics and built-in Compass to navigate which direction is north by pointing causing the watch to vibrate when magnetic north is detected

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  1. kuroro86
    kuroro86
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    May 2022

    You means something like this ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hu8MNuvCHE

  2. lucid_living
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    There is one! It's called Sentero by Cyborg Nest

    https://www.cyborgnest.net/

  3. McSTUFF
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    June 2022

    It may be challenging if you want all the processing in the watch because your wrist could swing at changing angles. If you used GPS location data and the watch vibrated or tapped when you walked north, it should work nicely.

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