eyeSight Technologies has demonstrated its motion-control-without-a-controller software in a newly published YouTube video. The demo shows a user navigating and controlling the Google Earth app using eyeSight software and a standard laptop equipped with a built-in webcam.
In the video above you can see a person rotating and zooming using gestures in 3D space. The technology isn’t going to be made available just for PCs though. In its press release the company says it already has products “across mass-market consumer devices such as PCs, Mobile phones, Tablets and TVs”. On the main eyeSight website you can see examples of many different devices using the software. Also logos for Windows, Mac, Android and Linux are shown. Other uses of its software solution are suggested to be in digital signage, set-top-boxes and in-car entertainment systems.
“For eyeSight it's all about delivering fresh and exciting user experiences,” eyeSight's CEO Gideon Shmuel said. “We want to enable users to interact with their devices using natural gestures, and we believe adding such capabilities to our offering, create a new layer of intuitiveness that users want.”
You may conclude that the software is limited to recognising only broad hand gestures, but eyeSight says finger gestures are also usable. The company reveals it has “recently launched a single camera-based fingertip tracking solution, enabling highly detailed touch-free control of devices”.
AMD Richland
If you wondered about how the AMD Richland software experience implemented motion control - it is thanks to this software. eyeSight says that its software has “received excellent market traction, being featured in several high-profile devices including the Lenovo Yoga Ultrabooks, AMD APUs, among others”.
If the degree of motion control demonstrated in the video is all that you want or need then perhaps this software solution would be a better choice for you than a dedicated controller and software combination. Hopefully it is priced competitively and there will be a demo/trial version made available for user testing.
