Flutter, the company focused on developing a hand gesture interface, says that it has been acquired by Google. Company CEO Naveet Dalal says that the team will be continuing its research at the search engine company.
If you’re not familiar with the Flutter brand, you’re probably aware of its service — it has a popular iOS application and describes itself as “Kinect for OS X” whereby it uses hand gestures to detect movement using the built-in webcam in devices to help control music and movies.
Granted that the technology is predominantly for Apple software, could we be seeing Google adding Flutter’s capabilities to its native apps or perhaps adapting it for Android? If so, perhaps leveraging it for the company’s wearable devices such as Google Glass could be in the realm of possibilities.
We’ve reached out to Google for comment and will update this if we hear back.
Here’s the acquisition announcement:
When we started three years ago, our dream to build a ubiquitous and power-efficient gesture recognition technology was considered by many as just “a dream”, not a real possibility. Since then, we have strived to build the best machine vision algorithms and a delightful user experience.
Even after we launched our first app, we didn’t stop our research; your enthusiasm and support pushed us to continue to do better. We’re inspired everyday when we hear, for example, that Flutter makes you feel like a superhero — because any sufficiently advanced technology should be indistinguishable from magic, right?
Today, we are thrilled to announce that we will be continuing our research at Google. We share Google’s passion for 10x thinking, and we’re excited to add their rocket fuel to our journey.
We’d like to extend a special thank you to all of our users; your feedback and evangelism inspire us every day. Flutter users will be able to continue to use the app, and stay tuned for future updates.
More to follow. Please refresh for updates.
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