GestureTek visit

Last Friday, our class of sheridan IMM program had a great visit to GestureTek in Toronto. The president Vincent John Vincent show us around the amazing gesture control systems in which you can do interactivity using hand, body movement instead of mouse, keyboard, joystick or touch pad.

Vincent is also the co-founder of the company. He is a really smart guy who pioneered the idea that video camera with perfect interface computer interaction twenty year's ago, now GestureTek is the world's leader in computer vision technology. Their system can work with any devices: pc, public displays, kiosk, even mobile phones. And it works with any surface: panels, floors, tables, screen, even bar and counter space. Their interactive solutions for controlling computers, interacting with multimedia displays and playing games in a 3D virtual world have won international awards.

During the visit, Vincent showed us some of their systems: Illuminate, GestPoint(holoFrame, holoPoint, AirPoint), GestureXtreme, GestureFX, ScreenXtreme. Illuminate brought "Minority Report Style" interactivity to the real life. And their newest portable air point system makes the setup really easy, it can handle any lighting condition, control any display size from any distance. All you have to do is placing your finger above the control unit and the system will track your finger position.

What I like most is the ScreenXtreme, it creates the 3d virtual world by transporting your real time image to digital display, sign or advertisement, you can see yourself in screen interacting dynamically with on screen characters, your body motion control the program. It's really a powerful entertainment tool.


By the way, the system also works with mobile phone, their patented, award-winning EyeMobile Engine® is the world’s first motion-controlled user interface for mobile gaming and applications. I think it will be the future mobile device user interface.

Overall, I enjoyed the visit a lot, it really is a memorable experience. Those cutting edge innovations are unforgettable. I believe in the near future, you will see more and more of those systems on malls, hotels, hospitals, everywhere.