Go Mobile with a Touch Free Cell Phone

June 14, 2011

Operating through a simple webcam, XTR Motion Capture is able to construct a virtual skeleton of fingers, palms, and even half the body, so it can “read” gestures programmed into it. A wave of the hand could tell your iPhone to jump to the next contact. This isn't some far-off dream: XTR software is expected to start arriving in the mobile market by the end of this year. And if you want to feel like the king of your TV, another version soon to launch will let you change channels or banish bad shows and boring commercials with just a flick of the wrist.

“What we do is three-dimension human motion capture utilizing a basic webcam on a laptop or on your cell phone and use that input to extract a 3D position of the skeleton in real time,” says XTR CTO Ofer Sadka. “What differentiates us from any other company in the world is that we operate from a single standard webcam.”

The essential service will give users control over devices without having to touch them, and without any accessories. The software can track finger movements or scale up to process body language, depending on how far it calculates the user to be from the camera. According to Sadka, the system can recognize programmed gestures not just from the main user but also from more than one person at a time, at a range of up to eight yards. That's an idea worth a thumb's up.

For more information: +972-72-214-5760, [email protected], www.xtr3d.com

Source: Karin Kloosterman, www.israel21c.org

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