Acquisition! Oculus to build future human-computer interaction operating system

last week, Facebook 's Oculus VR Company has completed two new acquisitions, a two-year-old Nimble VR Company and a start-up company called 13th Lab .

It is learnt that Nimble sense is a gesture recognition technology company founded in the year, and founder Robert2011 graduated from MIT 's computer department and specializes in gesture recognition. Their product nimble VR was recently landed in Kickstarter;13th Labs focuses on real-time 3D models, Like a mock visit to the Egyptian pyramids or the Colosseum.

for Oculus acquisition of nimble Sense and 13th Lab, He Yi not surprised, in fact, in the gesture (somatosensory) Recognition field,Oculus action is calculated late. Of course, it is also related to the history of Oculus itself, after all, it does not have much time to establish itself.

early in theyear, in the field of gesture recognition, there have been several important industry mergers and acquisitions. For example, Intel 's takeover of Omek , Google 's takeover of Flutter , and Apple's acquisition of Microsoft Kinect at a premium of $3.45 Provide technical support to Israeli companies such as PrimeSense.

gesture recognition has long been a battleground for the future of major giants. Because Giants are increasingly seeing (gesture recognition) a significant change in the traditional way of doing things-using human actions instead of traditional mouse or touchscreen operations to manage computers and other devices. Somatosensory technology not only makes it easier to complete many of the existing daily chores, but also handles tasks such as creating 3D models, viewing clothing pairings, training athletes, and navigating medical images during surgery without touching.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says the acquisition of Oculus is a long-term bet. Oculus is also an important part of Zuckerberg's future ambitions, as Oculus will build the next major computer platform following the mobile platform.

Of course, just Zuckerberg's ambition is not enough, from Facebook Acquisition Oculus now,Oculus 's products have no more breakthroughs, formal products are not yet listed, the reason is not that its existing hardware products are not perfect, but also the lack of more important parts of its products.

We all believe that virtual reality will be the key to the next wave of human-computer interaction revolution, and Oculus in the virtual reality of the performance of everyone, it can be said thatOculus is the best virtual reality display output device, but at the entrance of virtual reality,Oculus still rely on the traditional line control input, lack of cool enough, Technological changes in the forefront. From the input to the output can give users a completely different experience, subversion of the existing human-computer interaction mode is what Zuckerberg expected Oculus to do.

It is the input of the future human-computer interaction, or can also be called the future human-computer interaction operating system.

in existing hardware devices, Microsoft's Kinect, and Leap Motion, previously stir by people,already have some future operating system shadows, so they will be a favorite device for everyone.

from existing opponents to develop a future operating system to solve the direction, which should be Oculus to carry out the acquisition of the driving force. It can be said thatOculus to Nimble 's acquisition represents Oculus fundamentally understand their own problems, the real industry to think clearly.

Next, Oculus will be quicker to enter the role, and constantly improve their ecological chain, to create a suitable Oculus operating system.

He Yi believes that with Oculus to their own continuous thinking and improvement,Oculus officially listed on the day or not in the distant.

Acquisition! Oculus to build future human-computer interaction operating system