Hillcrest Provides Freespace for Smartphones and Tablets
Hillcrest’s new Freespace MotionEngine for Mobile is an embedded software solution that manages and enhances the combined performance of motion sensors commonly found in smartphones and tablets – accelerometers, magnetometers, and gyroscopes – to enable today’s motion-based applications and provide the foundation for next-generation user experiences, says Hillcrest Labs.
It has announced that its natural motion control technology, Freespace, is now available for manufacturers and component suppliers of smartphones and tablets.
Hillcrest quotes information and analytics provider HIS to say that shipments of motion sensors in cell phones and media tablets will rise to 4.2 billion units in 2015, up from 1.5 billion in 2011.
[ Also Read: Are Tablets Really Selling Like Hot Cakes? ]“The smartphone industry is at a key inflection point with motion control,” said Chad Lucien, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Hillcrest Labs.
“Motion sensors are now standard in mobile devices, but today’s motion software implementations impose significant constraints that limit sensor choice, integration flexibility and performance. We aim to change that. Our Freespace MotionEngine for Mobile provides a software solution for Android and Windows 8 smartphones and tablets.”
[ Also Read: Tablets to Usher in a New Tech Era in Schools ]Announced today, March 26, Freespace MotionEngine for Mobile can enable mobile applications, such as Context Awareness, Pedestrian Navigation, Augmented Reality, Health and Fitness, Immersive Gaming, and Gesture Control.
Hillcrest Laboratories (a.k.a. Hillcrest Labs) offers multiplatform motion software and products.
