Google grabs gesture startup
The announcement of the acquisition was made at the startup’s website www.flutterapp.com in statement from company CEO Navneet Dalal. "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," Dalal said in the statement.
The Flutter app uses the webcam present on PC and Mac notebook computers to recognize hand gestures that can be used to control certain functions within such applications as iTunes, Spotify, Netflix, Youtube. The gestures can be used to play, pause or skip videos and songs and are said to work best at between one and six feet from the camera.
Bot Square Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.) raised $1.4 million in seed funding in June 2012 from Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, Spring Ventures, Start Fund and individual angel investors and is also backed by Y Combinator, a form of boot-camp and incubator fund for startups.
It is not clear whether Flutter intends to keep on developing features for its stand-alone application or wants to integrate Flutter gesture recognition as a standard part of the Chrome platform. For now the Flutter app continues to be on sale at the App Store and there is a stated intention to add commands for like, volume control and mute.
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