Soon you will be able to video chat in 360° with just a wave of your hand.
Have you ever been in a video conference at work or video chatting with friends and family and wished you could maneuver the camera to see more of their surroundings? Rimo is designed to do just that. Rimo is a spherical mount for your smartphone that allows the video caller on the other end to remotely control your phone’s movement with hand gestures; giving them the power to change and move the smartphone camera for a 360° video experience. Unlike Facebook Portal, Rimo works with any video chat application.
Rimo was inspired by technology seen in Sci-Fi movies like Minority Report and Iron Man. It achieves this by using sensors and a decoder that translates hand gestures into motor movement. There is no Bluetooth pairing or custom codes required to operate the device. You can start controlling Rimo as soon as your video chat begins.
In addition to the video chat application, Rimo also allows you to record a video while tracking your face. The unique built in face-tracking feature makes staying in frame much easier. You can record tutorials or vlogs. The possibilities are endless. Team leader Danny Lin, a PhD graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles, and now Intel employee, invites you to come up with new ways to use the device. “There are many potential applications for Rimo. It depends only on the limits of your imagination”.
Rimo will be launched on Indiegogo on October 15. The Indiegogo page is at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/rimo-your-360-home-video-chat-device.
The early bird price is 45% off the retail price. Subscribe to the mail list on www.myrimo.com to get the launch VIP discount.
For more information please go to www.myrimo.com. You can also follow their project on Twitter (@getrimo) or Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/getrimo/).