Does gesture detection on mobile platforms have a chance?

Gesture interaction is a beautiful dream. Unfortunately, Leap Motion's first attempt to disappoint. The fact shows that the existing multi-ecosystem is immature, the introduction of high-precision gesture detection brought about by the actual experience is completely failed, far less than the traditional mouse keyboard.

PC not, mobile or other platform? So far, all the available gestures tracking products are basically PC-oriented, several technology companies in the direction of moving, miniaturization, Millet also invested in such a company Pebble Interface. But on the mobile platform specifically how to do, we have no one to come up with an example.

Yesterday, Annie, the founder of the bullying, told me that they had made gesture recognition products that worked well on mobile platforms. Ling Sense is a focus on gesture interaction technology company, last year did a similar leap motion PC-side products, product positioning of the B-side, and then began to move direction, now the hardware part of the product is not changed, mainly for mobile platform to do a lot of algorithm optimization. In the implementation of the results, the accuracy has been basically the same as the PC end, but due to the arm platform itself to limit the computational capacity, the consumption of mobile-end processor resources accounted for higher than the PC end.

The reason for moving to the mobile end is that they are bullish on the smart-TV market, hoping to provide a better way to interact with the field. Their current product is a long strip of equipment, connected to the mobile phone via a USB cable, and when you sit on the couch, you can use a separate gesture to manipulate the TV.

I have not personally experienced, but according to the past experience of leap motion, this interaction has two drawbacks, one is tired, arm hovering more than imagined tired, and second, the use of precision is not too controllable. However, compared to the existing only TV interactive mode, the method of the Ling feeling has many advantages. The most important point, gesture interaction is very intuitive, similar to the introduction of smart phone touch interaction, the current smart TV with remote control input feeling, with the traditional mobile phone keyboard input similar, completely unsuitable for intelligent TV display interface. For example, the display interface of Intelligent TV has reached the level of iOS, the interactive means still stay in the nine Sudoku keyboard stage, the Ling feel want to achieve is touch screen interaction.

In addition to the Intelligent TV terminal, the technology can also be used in the Intelligent Home control field, a wave to turn off the air-conditioning or turn on the table lamp, think is also pretty cool.

Gesture interaction may indeed not be appropriate for the current PC platform, but in the emerging computing platform, such as Smart television, virtual reality, there may be a promising future, because the interactive means on these platforms in a serious vacancy status, who can grab the first advantage, may be the next mouse keyboard.