Extreme Reality (XTR) has partnered with Texas Instruments (TI) to deliver a touchless gesturing engine and gesturing application framework for mobile devices.
The company said that its camera-based, touchless gesturing technology will enable mobile devices to track and recognise human body gestures, in order to command and control different applications on mobile devices.
Using single- or multiple-finger gesturing, users can point, click, drag, scroll, zoom and rotate – all with simple hand movements that never even touch the screen.
XTR said that this touchless gesturing will enable applications such as: controlling a handheld device while walking; controlling a mobile phone while driving; as well as controlling a remotely placed mobile device.
XTR’s joint approach will use a single 2D camera, combined with a real-time motion capture software engine from XTR running on the OMAP platform from TI.
As a result of this collaboration, the companies will deliver a offering for touchless gesturing that is optimised for the OMAP platform, leveraging the hardware resources of the OMAP 4 processor.
The XTR software will be delivered as part of TI’s NUI offering – from Smartphones to tablets to mobile consumer devices – coupled with TI’s image signal processing and power management software.
This software offering will be supported with a set of tools, allowing application developers and OEMs to access the gesturing library, as well as connect gestures to existing or future applications, the company said.
