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MRiot Vision Pro Module

Friendly hardware and software that give entertainment an understanding of people.

Eddie OffermannFull-stack hardware prototyper and xR software architect

Role
Full-stack hardware prototyper and xR software architect
Areas
Computer Vision, Hardware, XR, Tools, AI
A matte black sensor module on a grey background: a rounded front bezel with a violet-tinted camera lens, a dot-perforated housing behind it, and a hinged mounting plate below.

MRiot set out to explore the space between humans and machines: interacting without touching. It's friendly hardware and software working together to bring intelligence to entertainment, built on an understanding of context and movement.

What it does

  • Extends "dumb" software with intelligent computer vision. Existing experiences can respond to bodies, hands and gestures without being rewritten around a sensor.
  • Makes custom computer vision applications simple to build. Experiences can trigger things and sequences from what people do in the space.
  • Lets your body control the world. Wave hello, move the world without touching a thing.

The guiding line: if you've got a human, you're halfway there.

The Vision Pro Module

The Vision Pro Module is MRiot's sensing hardware. It builds on leading depth sensors and neural compute hardware so recognition runs at the edge, next to the experience it drives.

We designed it to look like something you'd want in a room rather than a bare dev kit. An off-the-shelf depth sensor slips into a matte black, 3D-printed shell. A rounded bezel frames the color camera and the depth windows, and the body behind it is covered in a grid of small perforations. The module sits on a flat mounting plate with a hinge and a knob on each side, so it can be tilted to face the space it watches, and the lowercase mriot logo is molded into the base. The compute side gets a matching perforated shell with cutouts for its ports.

Under the hood

A user's own device pairs with an MRiot Concierge, which hands the device the controls it needs. From there a device control loop keeps the two in sync. Shared identity data structures and a set of standard control interface types let any paired device drive any experience the Concierge knows about.

MRiot also explored AR interfaces for the devices around you: see MRiot: Appliance Control. It shares its roots with HoloFlect and our xR ecosystem research: sensors that talk to each other, compute that can be distributed, and development that doesn't start from scratch for every device.

  • The module, rendered on a turntable.
  • The module from the front: a rounded black bezel with a violet lens and a second dark sensor window, above a base with a hinge knob on each side.
    From the front: the camera and sensor windows behind a single bezel.
  • Close front view of the bezel, with the lowercase mriot logo molded into the base below it.
    The mriot logo is molded into the base.
  • Three-quarter view of the module tilted forward on its mounting plate, showing the side hinge knob.
    A side hinge lets the module tilt on its plate.
  • Side view of the module on its flat mounting plate, with the perforated housing and the hinge knob visible.
    The module on its flat mounting plate.
  • Rear three-quarter view of the module, showing the dot-perforated top of the housing and the edge of the mounting plate.
    The perforated housing from behind.
  • A depth camera with a white perforated body and a silver front band lying on a black and white patterned mat.
    The off-the-shelf depth sensor before it goes into the shell.
  • A black dot-perforated printed enclosure standing upright on a patterned mat, with port openings along its top edge.
    A printed shell for the compute side, with openings for its ports.
  • Close-up of the top edge of the black printed shell, showing a USB-C opening, an audio jack and screw holes, sitting on a white base.
    Port cutouts in the printed shell.
  • A rounded black printed bezel ring lying on the patterned mat next to the sensor.
    The front bezel, printed separately.
  • A prototype of the module on a workbench, its black bezel framing two lenses, with the mriot logo on the base.
    An assembled prototype on the bench.

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