Game console gesture control tech to get stuffed into smartphones.
The game industry has seen a high level of gesture control technology with the Nintendo Wii and Xbox Kinect, which require users to actively move in order to play and interact with games.
Israel-based mobile tech developer eyeSight bagged $4.2 million from a funding round fronted by investors CEVA and Mitsui & Co.
With touchscreens taking over from physical buttons, gesture control remains quite an untapped area and the funding is set to support eyeSight 's development of mobile gesture control.
eyeSight's touch-free platform requires a device camera to recognise the user's movements and is available for iOS, Android, Windows and Symbian.
Gideon Shmuel, eyeSight's CEO, said: The addition of proven market leaders such as CEVA and Mitsui emphasizes their strong belief in eyeSight's innovative Gesture Recognition Technology and our ability to bring it to the mass market.
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"Our investors realise that our software, which can be easily integrated into devices, chipset, operating systems and applications, provides an easy way to extend the normal user interface into new areas, offering greater interaction and user experience."
CEVA is expected to provide an enhanced reach with a client list, which includes Apple and Samsung, while Mitsui should be able to provide a number of key contacts in native Japan.
Last month we reported a cooking app called My Kitchen Table developed by TigerSpike, which uses gesture control to sift through recipes.
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