Does the future of tv lie in gesture based control? Orange Vallée is working on it…

“Gesture recognition is one of the most exciting new technologies at the International Consumer Electronics Show this week” says Venture Beat after the closing of the 2008 CES. Some prestigiuous CE companies are working on it: Panasonic, Hitachi, … and from a different industry perspective, Orange Vallée. OV is a peculiar initiative  of Orange (110 m mobile subscribers and 7,5 ADSL customers of which 1,5 m use IPTV) which has dedicated a specific subsidiary to innovation in short lead times.
Take a minute to discover the impressive demo of the Orange Vallée service, which will remind you of Tom Cruise gesture in the the Minority Report movie: future can be so close…

Gesture based remote control by Orange Vallée

Future of TV remote control