Apple Files Patent For Gesture Control Technology, But What Is The Company Going To Do With It?

Apple Inc. AAPL recently filed a patent for new gesture control technology. In the future, this technology could enable Apple products to read and comprehend hand signals from users.

Dan Costa, Editor-in-Chief of PC Magazine, was on CNBC Tuesday to talk about the gesture control technology and its significance for Apple.

"Well, it's actually pretty important and it's a very broad patent," Costa said. "I was actually impressed with how broad it is considering there has already been so much development in this space, but this is the result of Apple buying PrimeSense last November. They are the ones who developed the Kinect system for Microsoft and it basically looks like they're bringing the same technology to Apple and it should really open up a whole new phase in technology evolution for Apple."

He continued, "They are doing very well with touch based devices, they still have a very strong presence in keyboard based devices, but there is a whole new category of devices that don't want to have the device in the room at the time or within contact with it and this will let users interact with those."

Will Apple’s Next Wave Of Products Make Use Of The Gesture Control Technology?

"I'm an optimist, I think it will eventually find its way into the mix," Costa said. "So far it has'’t had a huge response with Kinect, that's a little underwhelming, pretty good for gaming, but not a lot of other usage…but the thing about Apple is that they don't force interfaces where they don't belong… I think it's going to go really well with living room computing."