A flick of the wrist in the air to change channels. A wiggle of the fingers to turn the volume up or down. Softkinetic, a Brussels-based software company, has teamed up with another Belgian firm, Optrima, a maker of 3D cameras and sensors, and US computer chip giant Texas Instruments to make this vision of the future a reality.
Softkinetic creates software that can run on any 3-D camera to translate people’s movements into commands set-top boxes or television sets can understand. Softkinetic is primarily in the gesture-controlled video game space (think Wii without the Wiimotes), and is working with companies like France Telecom’s Orange to develop applications to control TVs. Softkinetic is similar to Gesturetek, which is the software that handles gesture control for upcoming Hitachi sets.
Source: newteevee
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