| Today's Top Stories | | #1 | Gesture Control Part 1: Google Glass meets Kinect in Ari, a gesture-recognition app for smart glasses (with video) | | | By Nick Mokey, Digital Trends | | | What if Google Glass could read hand gestures like Microsoft's Kinect? Soon, it will. A Portland, Ore., startup called On the Go Platforms is developing a way to control your smartglasses with a form of sign language. More»
Why This Matters: It's Siri in sign-language (necessary in a noisy room if you don't want to shout at inanimate objects). This matters to us because when a gesture becomes ubiquitous (think swipe--or faders) it becomes the native user vocabulary; body language literally affects how users think when they use a product. Gestures have always been better than words as user interface. That will continue to be true as ProAV and personal devices become more and more linked with shared gestures, and as gestures from the consumer world migrate to ProAV products, as happened with touchscreens. -Cynthia Wisehart |
| | #2 | Gesture Control Part 2: Nod gesture control ring is designed for continual wear, starts selling for $149 | | | By Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch | | | Gesture control devices are a big new area of interest among hardware startups, and a Bluetooth-enabled ring that makes it possible to control connected devices with a wave of your hand is nothing new. But the Nod, is different from many of the other solutions out there we've seen, in that it's already in the advanced prototype phase, has serious high-profile VC backing, and in that I've actually seen it work as advertised with my own two eyes. More»
Why This Matters: As the article says, tackling gestures isn't as easy as just building support for sweeping hand movements into displays; the real test is making sure gestures work on a repeated basis in everyday settings for everyday users. This is a lesson that has been hard for companies playing in this space to learn thus far. –Cynthia Wisehart |
| | #3 | Media Vision launches microphone buyback program | | | via SVCOnline | | | For a limited time, until July 15th 2014, Media Vision is offering $50 per microphone to customers trading in their obsolete or inadequate technology for a new TAIDEN conferencing microphone system. The program is supported by Media Vision's nine offices across North America and Europe. More»
Why This Matters: This is an effort to help companies update to conferencing mics—any mic of any kind is eligible for the trade-in.–Cynthia Wisehart |
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