Comments on: Google’s Newest Patent Filing, Control Your Device With Motion-Based Gestures

By: Jared Kotoff

Jared Kotoff — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 18:55:00 +0000

tapping the camera, makes sense. its like another button but its free cause it doesn’t take up any more space.

The gestures, sounds cool. I love kinect. but your right, whats the difference of a few inches for me to do the gesture on the screen instead?

By: zhengyou37

zhengyou37 — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:42:00 +0000

http://xvr.in/h9

By: Kiril

Kiril — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:28:00 +0000

Yeah, I get that. But we should still expect Google to be better than Apple, right? I work in an R&D department, and I see this all the time too — “cool” ideas get picked up by large teams and ultimately never get used by consumers, while useful ideas wait around at the prototype stage for years until everyone else starts doing it and the boss asks why we didn’t develop that idea first.

By: Kiril

Kiril — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:24:00 +0000

I know they don’t only do one thing at a time, but they still have limited resources (engineers and time).

By: Gasai Yuno

Gasai Yuno — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:58:00 +0000

“Tap the camera” because we really need more ways to leave smudges and stuff on the lens.

I rarely use my phone in a clean room environment so I don’t think I’d want to spend time cleaning my V-Spec II Nur’s motor oil off the camera lens.

By: Wayne Randall

Wayne Randall — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:33:00 +0000

so is this Kinect for Android? ah, i have a four inch screen, it’s not like i can stand a few feet away to preform these gestures AND actually use the device. unless this feature recognizes eye movement, or “the eyebrow”, or flaring nostrils, i can’t understand how this is useful.

somebody clue me in, por favor

By: Liderc

Liderc — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:24:00 +0000

She had an iphone, of course she did=P

By: CHRIS42060

CHRIS42060 — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:16:00 +0000

It may be gimmicky, but that is what sells phones. How many people ran out and bought the iPhone 4S because Siri was amazing (and probably don’t use it today)? Siri was the ultimate gimmick, but it sells phones (they still saturate the market with Siri ads). Also I doubt Google is holding off any other innovations for development of this feature. This is something attention grabbing for television ads for those consumers (the majority) who are clueless about the specs of a phone or what open source is.

By: KevinC

KevinC — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:48:00 +0000

because a HUGE corporation can’t do more than one thing at a time?

By: Tapionski

Tapionski — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:46:00 +0000

This reminds me of a gmail hoax, let me try to find it…

Found it: gmail.com/motion

Note how when you click “Try Gmail Motion” the silly box at the end says “At least not yet…”

By: cizzlen

cizzlen — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:44:00 +0000

Did she blow you away too afterwards?

By: Liderc

Liderc — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:33:00 +0000

lol agreed. I never use face-unlock, but the other night when I was talking with this girl who had an iphone I used it and she was blown away.

If only they knew it was pointless =P

By: NemaCystX

NemaCystX — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:13:00 +0000

It could in a way be some sort of answer to motion type of gaming too, especially if Google releases games for Google TV. Think Kinect style gaming and or control

By: NemaCystX

NemaCystX — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:11:00 +0000

because some CPU’s have more capabilities than others

By: Elwin2k10

Elwin2k10 — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:08:00 +0000

Whoa… I though Apple had a patent for filing patents first. Google may have infringed on that, they better be careful…

Sounds cool… swipe left to go back on a web page, or a gerture letting the phone know you want to open another app… I would mess with it.