Posted on 07/16/2015 1:48:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Oculus, the virtual-reality headset maker that Facebook bought last year, said Pebbles “will be joining the hardware engineering and computer vision teams at Oculus to help advance virtual reality, tracking, and human-computer interactions,” the company said on its blog. It didn’t disclose a price tag, but one person familiar with the matter said it was around $60 million.
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Pebbles has recently integrated its technology into the virtual-reality headset developed by Facebook’s Oculus VR, enabling users to interact with the device via hand and finger gestures. Unlike competing gesture-identification technologies, Pebbles’ enables users to see images of their own arms and hands in their virtual-reality display. In some other technologies, users can’t “see” their bodies, or only see generic digitally-generated versions. Pebbles’ technology can show unique features like clothing, scars or items held in one’s hand.
The Israeli company, based in Kfar-Saba, some 14 miles northeast of Tel-Aviv, employs 50 people
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I don't want to hear more about that. It may not even be legal.
This might have been a one time to go with "company" or "business," rather than "firm."
And "Oculus"?
Is that a product, a company spokesman or a horror movie?
Yeah ... sooo .. it is like we ....
OK and, like ... soooo ... does that mean ... ?
Oh yes ... soooo ... I am a geek.
Cool!
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