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By Improper Staff | Photo Credit: Callow Lens | Aug. 5, 2016
Kevin Clark
Kevin Clark is on the move. The 25-year-old Berklee alum is the mind behind Point Motion, a motion-controlled device that translates movement into sound and effects. He created the prototype in the one-bedroom apartment he shared with two roommates; now the product is in the hands of early adopters and ready for release this fall. “Guitar players won’t need to worry about effect pedals, and dancers can orchestrate entire pieces of music with their body,” Clark explains. “We already have DJs in Switzerland using this to control lights and sounds in their live performances, and dancers at Boston Conservatory dancing the music, rather than dancing to it.” He’s also been working with medical institutions to use Point Motion to help people with autism and Alzheimer’s, donating $40,000 worth of Point Motion products to schools, clinics and hospitals across the country. Work to incorporate sign language technology for use at retail checkout stations is ongoing, but Clark says this is just the beginning: “By mid-2017, we will have integrated facial recognition and hand-tracking to have established the most universal and intuitive motion-control system in history.”
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