Thursday, September 16, 2010

TI and XTR team up on touchless gesturing system for mobile devices

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/15/ti-and-xtr-team-up-on-touchless-gesturing-system-for-mobile-devi/

We've seen a few examples of touchless, gesture-based interfaces for mobile devices, but it looks like Texas Instruments might be closer than most to making it a reality -- it's just announced a partnership with Extreme Reality (also known as XTR) on a new gesture engine and framework specifically designed for its OMAP 4 platform. The two companies actually showed off such a system back at MWC earlier this year (check out a demo of ti after the break), but they've only just now made the partnership official, and they're promising plenty more advancements to come -- including the ability to not only recognize simple gestures, but even things like whole body movements and two-handed gestures. Head on past the break for the complete press release.

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