Gesture-based machine control merges HMIs, Consumer Electronics and enables “touchless gestures” for control of smartphones, tablets, TVs and media center PCs running Linux, Android and Windows 7 operating systems (Windows 8 support is planned).

Bryan Hoadley, president of Movea, says GestureBuilder “is currently being deployed to customers as part of our MoveTV Platform, a vertical solution for the pay TV market. Those deployments, and our demonstrations of touchless gestures, have generated an incredible level of interest in Movea’s gesture recognition capabilities. In response to this interest, we wanted to make GestureBuilder more widely available to OEMs and systems integrators.”

Of course, companies like Movea and Microsoft are primarily targeting consumer electronics products. But folks like Bryan Brown know that industrial customers may soon be clamoring for technology as well.

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