With FCC permission and Facebook stepping aside, Google is now allowed to develop more powerful radar tech for gesture-detecting wearables.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just gave Google permission to continue developing Project Soli, the company’s radar-based sensors that let people control gadgets without touching them.
Project Soli began in 2015, when the tech giant made claims about the tech that sounded like interfaces from “Minority Report,” which would turn up music volume when someone rotated their wrist, or zoom in on a picture when they separated two fingers from each other.
Now the project has cleared a major regulatory hurdle, according to The Verge, paving the way, potentially, for next-gen gesture interfaces.
The actual technology, as it was built back in 2015 onward, left a lot to be desired, missing or failing to respond to many gestures.
