{"id":648869,"date":"2013-03-26T08:06:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T12:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=785432"},"modified":"2013-03-26T08:06:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T12:06:12","slug":"camboard-pico-demos-what-kind-of-gesture-control-your-next-computer-could-have-built-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/648869","title":{"rendered":"CamBoard Pico Demos What Kind Of Gesture Control Your Next Computer Could Have Built-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"70\" src=\"http:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/screen-shot-2013-03-26-at-7-55-35-am.png?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-tc-carousel-river-thumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-03-26 at 7.55.35 AM\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 7px 0;\" \/><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='640' height='360' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/piy1dy5-wpE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CamBoard Pico is German firm <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.pmdtec.com\/\">pmdtec&#8217;s<\/a> next-generation gesture input reference device. We <a title=\"The CamBoard Pico Wants To Take On Leap Motion, Offers Full Depth Gesture Control In A Smaller\u00a0Package\" href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/03\/12\/the-camboard-pico-wants-to-take-on-leap-motion-offers-full-depth-gesture-control-in-a-smaller-package\/\">showed you before<\/a> what it could potentially do to change the computer interface, and now there are a couple of new videos from the company showing how it&#8217;s working with middleware makers and what it can truly accomplish in practice in actual shipping products.<\/p>\n<p>The gesture detection in these videos is impressive, and shows a solution that&#8217;s not only small enough to be incorporated into devices like notebooks, but also works at a sufficient distance that it&#8217;s actually usable, accurately, when you&#8217;re up close and working with said devices as you would normally.<\/p>\n<p>Individual finger detection and the ability to use the CamBoard Pico tech to accomplish simple, practical things like switching between open apps. Unlike Kinect, it looks like you can use the CamBoard pico even from your standard typing\u00a0position\u00a0on a notebook computer, just by raising a finger while typing. That&#8217;s much, much more useful than gesture tech that requires a user to adjust themselves back from the screen, or even worse, stand up to interact with a computer, and much more likely to gain wide adoption, rather than acting as a sort of novelty.<\/p>\n<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='640' height='360' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JRU41isG708?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The second demo video, which shows pmdtec working with Metrilus middleware,\u00a0demonstrates\u00a0more the general gesture sort of control we&#8217;ve come to expect from Kinect and\u00a0similar\u00a0technologies, but again, the distance and flexibility are impressive. I&#8217;m excited to see what the forthcoming <a title=\"Leap Motion\u2019s Michael Buckwald Lays Out His Vision For Gesture-Based Computer\u00a0Interaction\" href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/03\/12\/leap-motion-michael-buckwald-demo\/\">Leap Motion controller<\/a> can accomplish when it ships later this year (it seems to offer similar functionality and working distance), but pmdtec&#8217;s goals and sales strategy are very different.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s targeting original design\u00a0manufacturers\u00a0(ODMs), who in term will sell through to OEMs. That means that together with its middleware partners, pmdtec can sell these things directly to computer\u00a0manufacturers, meaning when you buy a future Acer, Asus or Sony laptop, it&#8217;ll come with accurate gesture recognition tech onboard if this product catches on. With these new practical demonstrations of how that might be of use even with current operating systems and interfaces, that&#8217;s a pretty exciting prospect.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tctechcrunch2011.wordpress.com\/785432\/\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=Q_1UUPiIoZI:ZDBA3-LidnI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=Q_1UUPiIoZI:ZDBA3-LidnI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=Q_1UUPiIoZI:ZDBA3-LidnI:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=Q_1UUPiIoZI:ZDBA3-LidnI:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=Q_1UUPiIoZI:ZDBA3-LidnI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CamBoard Pico is German firm pmdtec&#8217;s next-generation gesture input reference device. 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