Gesture recognition is hot technology right now.
As it turns out, much of the work in that space is being done by a small research team in Ottawa.
California company GestureTek Technologies, whose tech powers Sony's PlayStation 2 EyeToy among other devices, has a group of 25 employees in Ottawa working on new ways to control our gadgets with the wave of a hand and other gestures.
The Ottawa Citizen's Vito Pilieci has a feature on the company's work in Ottawa which may have been burried by a certain other technology story yesterday.
GestureTek is the pioneer, multiple patent-holder and world-leader in camera-enabled gesture-recognition technology for presentation and... [more]
Robert Janelle
Robert Janelle is a freelance technology journalist living in the National Capital Region. He's spent time covering the Ottawa start-up scene as a columnist and feature writer with his work in National Capital Scan, The Ottawa Citizen, The Ottawa Sun, Kingston Whig-Standard and The Escapist. He also suffers from a mild addiction to video games.
