Comments on: Hands On With Softkinetic’s Hands-Controlled TV

By: What the Wii Hath Wrought: The Gesture-Control Space Heats Up

What the Wii Hath Wrought: The Gesture-Control Space Heats Up — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:01:43 +0000

[...] a Wii-mote or a Loop? Removing all handheld accoutrement is exactly what companies like GestureTek, Softkinetic and Canesta are working on. Raising your hands and orchestrating a series of pre-defined gestures [...]

By: Patti Jordan

Patti Jordan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:54:30 +0000

For GestureTek it is great to see the growing interest and recognition of video gesture control as the next natural step in user interface for gaming and display interactivity. GestureTek has been inventing, patenting, and pioneering gesture control technology for over 20 years and has had 3D depth sensing and stereo control software and patents in place for over 8 years. You may be interested to know that GestureTek has already commercially deployed a package that makes available all the 3D tracking and control features you mention, plus far more. Our software has always worked with any available 3D depth camera. Although we have developed some interesting unique gesture control commands, our 3D depth sensing technology has always offered the ability for users to control the system using virtually any hand gesture, such as grabbing, swiping, waving or pointing. Besides the work we are doing with major telecom companies for their set top boxes and electronics manufacturers for their next generation of TV’s and other consumer devices, GestureTek has deployed many public interactive displays utlizing our 3D depth sensing system. More details are available at http://www.gesturetek.com/3ddepth/introduction.php

By: Reinventing the remote control « Fideocam - The Blog

Reinventing the remote control « Fideocam - The Blog — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:46:55 +0000

[...] I have always been a fan of innovative user interface work so I wanted to post this clip I saw on the NewTeeVee blog. The cool thing is they say the gesture-based controls could be in mass market devices by [...]

By: timekeeper

timekeeper — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:20:30 +0000

Very cool but good luck in embedding video cameras into an internet connected set top box. Talk about big brother watching. Someone is going to hack the box so they can see you.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:20:02 +0000

If a room full of Italian soccer fans disagrees with the ref, will they end up changing the channel three times?