News - Gesture recognition startup Flutter snapped up by Google

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Deal could bring native gesture recognition to Google Glass and Android devices.

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Wow, Google just keeps on getting bigger and bigger. I'm excited to see how they are going to incorporate this into their Android OS.

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What Google will do with this bought-in tech is just speculation right now but Mountain View must have seen promise in the Flutter apps and have intentions to use it somewhere within its portfolio of devices and mobile OSes. It could even become a default feature in Android, rivalling Samsung’s Air Gestures and Air View controls.

Probably makes a lot of sense to slap this into TV's and set top boxes. I probably see a use if someone wanted to do a ChromeOS-based AIO, and there's niche cases where it could be handy on large screen tablets (being able to scroll a recipe on a tablet screen without getting your cake-mix-covered fingers on the screen).

Not convinced that it'd be any more than a gimmick on a smartphone - so far haven't come across anyone that would miss the "Air" features on their Samsung Galaxy devices.