The Gest controller has four soft, rubbery half-rings that clip onto your fingers, and a pad that straps onto the back of your hand. Each device contains 15 inexpensive sensors that measure motion with gyroscopes and accelerometers, much like those found in mobile phones. Thumb movements are inferred using data from the other sensors.
“The keyboard and mouse don’t make sense for things like augmented reality and virtual reality,” Gest cofounder Mike Pfister says. “It’s not going to succeed unless there is a really intuitive, fundamentally new input method.”
When I met Pfister in a San Francisco coffee shop, he slipped a prototype Gest controller onto each hand and began tapping on the table as if it were a keyboard. As his fingers drummed, potential words popped up on the screen. He tapped and swiped his hand to scroll through and select the correct word. “Hello, welcome to the future of interaction,” he wrote.
Gest doesn’t need you to set up an exact location that corresponds to each key. Instead the device uses the relative motion of your fingers to understand what the user is trying to do. It can also adapt to a person’s individual typing style over time based on the suggested words he or she selects.
The first version of Gest was focused on typing and built at a hackathon, after another of the company’s four cofounders, Sid Srikumar, read about a similar idea in the science fiction novel Accelerando, by British author Charles Stross. They raised some investment funding and participated in the Capital Factory startup incubator, in Austin, Texas.
Gest has since shifted to developing its devices as a way to use natural hand gestures to interact with virtual 3-D objects. Pfister says it could help creatives working with 3-D models or drawings. He believes it could also be a powerful interaction mechanism for the Oculus Rift, heading to market next year, or other virtual reality headsets. During the coffee shop demo, he made a fist and turned his hand to grab and rotate a model of a monkey head on the screen.
Research has shown that being able to interact with a virtual world seen through a headset like the Oculus Rift helps provide a strong sense that the virtual world is real. However, the mechanism to provide that interactivity is unclear.
This non-functional design prototype shows how the final device should look when it is released next year.Gest plans to ship its first devices, and launch tools for software developers to integrate them into software, before the end of 2016. The company predicts a price of $200.
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