Movers and Shakers Bring Rock and Roll to Navigation
Date: Wednesday, April 02 @ 01:18:02 UTC
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 Fresh from their success as Overall Winner at the GSM Association's Mobile Innovations Awards at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Toronto based GestureTek Mobile are showing off their gesture controled EyeMobile Engine this week at the CTIA Wireless 2008 Show, Las Vegas. It utilizes a similar, but more precise, motion-sensing technology to that used in Nintendo's Wii game console.
GestureTek introduced the world’s first application that allows gesture controlled navigation of maps with GPS integration in September 07. The application is currently available on 8 out of 9 DoCoMo phones in Japan. This represents about 7 million phones. They are now hoping to break into a much wider market.
With no hardware add-on required, the EyeMobile Engine utilizes the camera in mobile devices to control movement in navigation. It includes three ways to track movement: shake, rock (no, it doesn't rattle!), and roll. By shaking the device it will determine the amount of motion in the camera image. Rolling determines the motion direction and the scrolling function while rocking it interprets specific gestures (right, left, up, down). Basically you can pan and zoom a map just by... Click here to read more and discuss...
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