Thomson Reuters The sign outside the Oculus VR booth is seen at the global Consumer Electronics show (CES) in Las Vegas TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Facebook’s Oculus unit said on Thursday it has agreed to buy Israeli gesture recognition technology developer Pebbles Interfaces for an undisclosed amount. “Over time, technology breakthroughs in sensors will unlock new human interaction methods in VR and revolutionize the way people communicate in virtual worlds”. “Through micro-optics and computer vision, we hope to improve the information that can be extracted from optical sensors, which will help take virtual reality to the next level”. As you’ll see in the video below, the possible applications for this in combination with VR are extraordinary and solve some of the major problems facing the new medium. Pebbles Interfaces recently began developing an interface for Oculus’s technology, so that finger movements will cause movement in the virtual space behind the technology.

At the same time, we’ve seen virtual reality make huge strides, changing the way people interact with one another.

Facebook’s Oculus division has made another acquisition: the company today has confirmed the acquisition of Pebbles Interfaces, a computer vision specialist based out of Israel.

In a company blog post, Oculus said: “Pebbles Interfaces will be joining the hardware engineering and computer vision teams at Oculus to help advance virtual reality, tracking, and human-computer interactions”. Thank you to our partners, employees and investors for your support as we’ve grown. “We’re looking forward to starting our next chapter as we join the team at Oculus!” Chime in here, and we’ll share the results.