Facebook's Oculus buys Israel gesture recognition firm Pebbles

[jos]

Facebook's Oculus unit said on Thursday it has agreed to buy Israeli gesture recognition technology developer Pebbles Interfaces for an undisclosed amount.

 

Pebbles' technology detects and tracks hand movement. It is aimed primarily at gamers but also has applications for TV, computers, or smartphone operation while driving.

 

Recently Pebbles integrated its technology with Oculus glasses, which translate finger gestures into virtual movement through a camera mounted on the glass frame, Calcalist said.   

 

Investors in Pebbles include Chinese mobile phone maker Xiaomi, Israeli venture capital fund Giza and U.S. storage firm SanDisk, Calcalist said.

 

 

 

I remember an old sony erricson phone which recognises hand gesture to play games. This remind me of that

 

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/16/us-facebook-pebbles-idUSKCN0PQ1KB20150716

[StareX]

Cool! Proud that my country makes all the cool stuff, but never uses it.

[Maslofski]

Cool! Proud that my country makes all the cool stuff, but never uses it.

 QA uses it, kind of

[spartaman64]

at first i read they bought israel i was like is facebook really that rich