Forget the Remote: Control TV By Waving Your Hand

[Herer]

Forget the Remote: Control TV By Waving Your Hand

 

Touchscreens are so yesterday. Remote controls? So last century.

 

The future is controlling your devices with a simple wave of the hand.

 

A wiggle of the fingers will change television channels or turn the volume up or down. In video games, your movements will control your onscreen digital avatar.

 

It's called 3-D gesture recognition and while it may not be in stores this Christmas a number of technology companies are promising that it will be by next year.

 

Softkinetic, a Brussels-based software company, is one of the leaders in the gesture-control field and has teamed up with US semiconductor giant Texas Instruments and others to make this touchless vision of the future a reality.

 

Besides TI, Softkinetic has forged partnerships with France's Orange Vallee for interactive TV, another Belgian firm, Optrima, a maker of 3-D cameras and sensors, and with Connecting Technology, a French home automation company.

 

"On the consumer side you have three markets -- television, video games and personal computers," Softkinetic chief executive Michel Tombroff told AFP in a telephone interview.

 

"The objective is to be on the consumer market at the end of next year, by Christmas, so people can buy these things," he said.

 

"In the same way that the Nintendo Wii completely changed the way that people play video games this 3-D camera technology will allow us to completely transform the way people interact with television," Tombroff said.

 

http://news.discovery.com/tech/television-remote-gesture-recognition.html

[MAXIMUS POWERS]

2000s was an amazing decade for technology. 2010 will be even more impressive. fingers crossed.

[5]

This is so cool.

 

Though TV still sucks.

[Herer]

truly magnificent achievement.

[5]

Now they just have to create content that'd make it truly worthwhile.

[Herer]

yep

[Nin-Yaaban]

I could see this being a problem.....ur waving wifey over to bring you something to eat, and ur TV thinks ur telling it to shut down or change channels in the middle of a good soccer game. ****** thing.

[5]

Nin Yaaban, you crack me up.

 

Even in the era of technology, you live in the stone age. Get your own food!

[Cabdow]

Originally posted by Nin-Yaaban:

I could see this being a problem.....ur waving wifey over to bring you something to eat, and ur TV thinks ur telling it to shut down or change channels in the middle of a good soccer game. ****** thing.

You have a good point duqa!

[Jacaylbaro]

Exactly my point ,,,, this is radiculous. Imagine you are sitting in front of the TV and trying not to move at all ?? ,,, come on