I can see my hands!
It's hard not to get excited about Oculus Rift, especially with all the moves Oculus VR has been making. The latest play is an agreement to buy Pebblies Interfaces, an Israeli startup that specializes in depth sensing technology and computer vision.
Using various sensors and algorithms, Pebbles Interfaces is able to take real world objects and dump them into the virtual world. That includes body parts, like your hands and fingers, which the company's technology is able to track.
"At Pebbles Interfaces, we’ve been focused on pushing the limits of digital sensing technology to accelerate the future of human-computer interaction. Through micro-optics and computer vision, we hope to improve the information that can be extracted from optical sensors, which will help take virtual reality to the next level," said Nadav Grossinger, CTO of Pebbles Interfaces. "We’ve always believed visual computing will be the next major platform in our lifetime, and we’re excited to join the Oculus team to achieve that vision for the future."
This takes things to a whole new level for Oculus, its headset, and developers who ultimately take advantage of the technology. There's a world of opportunity in being able to see and use your body parts in VR rather than generically rendered bits or controller accessories like the Oculus Touch, which have limited capacity for movement and interaction. Have a look:
Pebbles Interactive will join the hardware engineering and computer vision teams at Oculus. They'll be tasked with advanced VR, tracking, and human-computer interactions.
Oculus Rift is scheduled to launch to consumers in the first quarter of 2016.
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