Keyboards and mice are definitely not the mainstream of future interaction. Perhaps one or a combination of voice, neuromuscular electricity, or gesture operations will become the main form of human-computer interaction.
Pebbles Interfaces has nothing to do with the smartwatch Pebble. It is an Israeli technology company whose technology allows a camera equipped with a professional chip to have powerful gesture recognition capabilities, whether near or far, with minimal requirements for external lighting conditions. Such cameras can be built into PCs, phones, or TVs, without needing a dedicated peripheral like Leap Motion, greatly expanding their usability.
We cannot currently see the finished product or the exact results of the technology. According to the company's CEO Alon, they can now turn any object into an interactive interface, whether it’s your hand, head, or even a pen. CTO Nadav claims that current gesture recognition products on the market are difficult for average consumers to master due to each company having its own standards, making them too hard to learn. The strategy of Pebbles Interfaces is to collaborate with hardware manufacturers, providing technical solutions to unify market standards.
Pebbles Interfaces recently secured $11 million in Series B funding, led by Bosch Group's VC and Giza Venture Capital, with strategic investments from Sandisk and Xiaomi. iNetwork, Shunwei Capital, and other venture capital firms also participated.
There are quite a few players in the gesture recognition field, many of which are Israeli companies. For example, Omek, which was previously sought after by Intel, Samsung, and Qualcomm, as well as others such as Softkinetic, Pointgrab, Eyesight, and Gesticon.