Friday, October 4, 2013

Android World Update # Google acquires Flutter, a gesture recognition startup

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Google acquires Flutter, a gesture recognition startup
Oct 4th 2013, 00:25, by David Martin

Google recently purchased the San Francisco based startup, Flutter, a company that helps to pull away from using a keyboard and mouse, allowing us to use gestures in order to manipulate controls on our computer.  The projected price tag that Google paid, $40 million dollars, is just a drop in the bucket to the potential this could have on future technology.

When we started three years ago, our dream to build a ubiquitous and power-efficient gesture recognition technology was considered by many as just “a dream”, not a real possibility. Since then, we have strived to build the best machine vision algorithms and a delightful user experience.

 

-Navneet Dalal, Flutter CEO

Imagine, no more keyboards/mouses/touch just manipulating your device through simple hand motions.  This does seem like a far “reach”, but you never know what Google/Flutter will think of next.

As to how this could find its way into Android is a little unclear; Chrome seems more obvious but we’ll likely find before too long.

Source: Flutter

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