Apple's PrimeSense Patent Allows Hand Gestures to Control Macs
Utilizing Microsoft Kinect tech.
Apple acquired Microsoft’s Kinect sensor back in 2013 and today, they have been granted a patent using hand gestures to control Macs with the tech. PrimeSense, the company that developed the Kinect sensor, also helped develop Face ID, and this hand gesture tech uses the same TrueDepth feature as that.
That patent describes the use of a focus gesture as:
A method, including receiving, by a computer executing a non-tactile three dimensional (3D) user interface, a set of multiple 3D coordinates representing a gesture by a hand positioned within a field of view of a sensing device coupled to the computer, the gesture including a first motion in a first direction along a selected axis in space, followed by a second motion in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, along the selected axis. Upon detecting completion of the gesture, the non-tactile 3D user interface is transitioned from a first state to a second state.
Additional gestures are set to appear for the Mac which focus on pushing, waving, and lifting hands. A separate report suggests that the Face ID tech may even make its way to a future HomePod. Leave your thoughts below on how do you feel about a gesture controlled Mac.
