Indians Revolutionizing The World Of Gesture Control Tech
The bunch of start ups founded by Indians is making great inroads into touchless gesture control technology. The technology got popular since Microsoft launched the motion-controlled gaming console Xbox Kinect in 2010.
A San Francisco-based startup Flutter, founded by Mehul Nariyawala and Navneet Dalal, allows users to play and pause music on Spotify and iTunes on Windows or Mac OS X computers with simple wave of the hand. "We actually conducted a survey among thousands of users, and the majority of them raised their flat palm as a gesture to stop playing music," says Mehul. Most music listeners, he says, play music in the background when they are browsing the internet or coding. Mehul worked with Salesforce.com and Like.com before starting Flutter.
A Mumbai-based Gameizon, founded by Balkrishna Heroor has a solution called LivePlay that works with the Xbox Kinect. It enables the watcher to replay on TV the ball that was bowled in a different way to see a better result. Herror, a cricket buff, took the instance of India vs South Africa Super 8 match in the Twenty20 World Cup in Colombo this October to explain it better, "Kallis bowled a poor bouncer at Kohli, which he should have pulled away, but he made a mess of the shot and gave a simple catch to DeVilliers. With LivePlay I could see what Kohli should actually have done," he said.
Bhavesh Dhupar, co-founder of Kinesis, A New Delhi based company, is working with web and mobile developers to build apps that interact with gestures. "Before Kinesis, one had to learn languages like C, C++, and VB.net. But now, you can build gesture applications using HTML and JavaScript framework, which is easier," he said.
