*A big news week for them. IEEE Spectrum and Technology Review, not too shabby.
*Another step toward the visionary notion of augmenting reality by snapping your fingers at it.
http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/38568/
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"Autonomy's new augmented reality technology, called Aurasma, goes a step further: it recognizes a user's hand gestures. This means a person using the app can reach out in front of the device to interact with the virtual content. Previously, interacting with augmented reality content involved tapping the screen. One demonstration released by Autonomy creates a virtual air hockey game on top of an empty tabletop—users play by waving their hands.
"Autonomy's core technology lets businesses index and search data that conventional, text-based search engines struggle with. Examples are audio recordings of sales calls, or video from surveillance cameras. "We use the same core technology in Aurasma to identify images or scenes and retrieve the relevant content to put on top," says Aurasma director Matt Mills, who presented the app at the DEMO technology conference in Santa Clara, California, this week.
"Autonomy quietly launched Aurasma in May, and GQ magazine has already used it to make some of its pages interactive. But the company announced only recently that Aurasma can track and respond to gestures to make virtual objects interactive. "We've now added finger recognition," says Mills, "so you get an experience a bit like using the Kinect. You reach out your hand and the content responds...."
