{"id":290566,"date":"2019-01-02T14:21:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T12:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=290566"},"modified":"2019-01-02T14:22:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T12:22:57","slug":"google-gets-approval-for-radar-based-hand-motion-sensor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/290566-google-gets-approval-for-radar-based-hand-motion-sensor.html","title":{"rendered":"Google gets approval for radar-based hand motion sensor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has won approval for a &#8220;radar-based motion sensing device&#8221; called <a href=\"https:\/\/atap.google.com\/soli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Project Soli<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Reuters\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-deutsche-telekom-auction\/deutsche-telekom-sues-german-government-over-5g-auction-welt-idUSKCN1OV1ND\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>reported<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The FCC granted Google the approval to operate the device at power levels &#8220;higher than currently allowed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Project Soli can also be operated on aeroplanes, it added.<\/p>\n<p>The device is intended to recognise\u00a0hand gestures which can then be used to issue commands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re creating a ubiquitous gesture interaction language that will allow people to control devices with a simple, universal set of gestures,&#8221; states the device&#8217;s product page.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the FCC approval process was that\u00a0Facebook raised concerns about the device &#8220;operating in the spectrum band at higher power levels&#8221;, said\u00a0Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has since retracted its concerns, following Google lowering the power levels from their original highs.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/290542-big-crackdown-on-chinas-online-lenders.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Big crackdown on China\u2019s online lenders<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has won approval for a &#8220;radar-based motion sensing device&#8221; called Project Soli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":290568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[167,56426,33016],"class_list":["post-290566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-hand-sensor","tag-radar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290570,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290566\/revisions\/290570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}