Monday, January 6, 2014

OnTheGo raises $700k seed round to work on gestures for smart glasses

TechCruch reports:

OnTheGo Platforms believes the current smart glasses experience on devices like Google Glass is fundamentally broken. Users shouldn’t have to use a touchpad to interact with the device. Instead, OnTheGo’s vision, as it’s CEO Ryan Fink explained today, is to use the glasses’ front-facing camera to recognize gestures so people can “interact naturally with smart glasses.”


Introducing OnTheGo Platforms from OnTheGo Platforms on Vimeo.

The video from the article shows some nice demos using Google Glass. While using camera for gesture recognition is not a new idea, usually the camera us facing the user. The camera embedded in the glass gives a different perspective and allows to introduce a whole different set of gestures.


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