XYZ Interactive - a sensor technology and touchless gesture control company out of Plug and Play accelerator, has partnered with WowWee to create MIP, a robotic toy that reacts, follows, and dances at the wave of your hand. The name is an acronym that stands for Mobile Inverted Pendulum, the toy's stabilizing technology that was created by the UCSD Coordinated Robotics labs.
XYZ Interactive created the sensor technology in MIP's eyes that allows him to 'see' and react. They used the same components that you find in your television remote, but paired with firmware that enables someone to use a series of gestures, such as the waving of your hand in the air, to give commands. While this kind of touchless technology has been around for a while, Michael Kosic, CEO of XYZ Interactive, believes that it was gaming that brought the technology into the living room.
"The Kinect was the first big win on that front. The idea of gesture technology used to be something like the control room in Minority Report. Then the Kinect brought it from Hollywood and Science Fiction into our homes. Now folks that didn't get it a few years ago are now coming back and saying 'can we talk about this again?'" Michael said.
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3 ноя 2013
