V-Enable's Motion Interface Engine turns phones into mice
Okay, so we get the Voice Interface Engine, V-Enable's voice-command software for cellphones. After all, as cellphones offer more features in smaller packages, who wants to spend all their time dealing with fiddly buttons and endless nested menus. However, we're having a harder time figuring out the market for V-Enable's new Motion Interface Engine, which essentially turns any cameraphone into an optical mouse. V-Enable apparently sees this as a great way to interact with cellphone-based games, as well as more mundane applications like scrolling through menus and navigating online data. We can only assume that users will get feedback from their apps via headphones, since it'll be kind of hard to see the phone's screen while you're using it as a pointing device. However, we are eager to see this in action, if only to find out how many people are prepared to wave their phones around in the air as a way to access data (as long as they don't do it while driving, of course).
[Via textually.org]
