Interaction

• Developments such as gesture interfaces and 3D mobile phone displays could be common by 2020.
• Consumers who are interacting with the tech around them via voice, gesture and touch will quickly expect their interactions with you to be just as seamless.
• Smarter vending machines [and other machines] could incorporate the convenience of gesture recognition or phone payments based on near field communication (NFC).
• Multi-Touch will become the standard and gesture control may be a further simplification in the relationship between humans and machines.
• The integration with virtual reality and motion-gesture gaming will equally compliment the realism by providing with each game 100% full immersion.
• Natural interaction models will have a profound effect on the relationship between users and technology and hence enterprises and workplaces over the next decade.
• Gesture-based technologies will continue to play a key role because they afford more natural and transparent interactivity.
• Ongoing subvocalized conversations, eye movement interactions, and gestures with something like an AI or Siri-servant will be common.
• Gesture pads or built-in sensors on the steering wheel will soon likely replace distracting central consoles.

Devices

• An increasing number of devices will be controlled by gesture.
• Pieces of electronic jewelry will soon be able to house the electronics.
• Game controllers and gesture-driven artificial intelligence will give way to completely immersive game experiences.
• Ultrasound technology that enables mobiles and tablets to be controlled by gesture could go into production as early as next year.

Work

• Natural interaction models will have a profound effect on the relationship between users and technology and hence enterprises and workplaces over the next decade.
• Presenters could change slides with a simple gesture rather than walking over to their laptops to hit a button.
• Wearable devices on the wrist or Google Glass 2 for enterprise  will be predominant but more sophisticated and easier to wear and use by voice command and gesture.

Gadgets

• Gesture recognition is soon going to become a key differentiator in high-end flagship smartphones.
• Even though Android Wear gadgets that currently run on Google's mobile operating system have been around for a little while now they still require a lot of work to get up to the standards that consumers will really expect.
• Touch-based tablets and gesture-recognition devices could give way to eye gaze interaction that allows for automatic scrolling.

Interfaces

• Visual and haptic technologies ranging from gestures to natural speech to handwriting recognition will all play a key role.
• By 2030 some will have tried brain-computing interfaces.
• People and devices will interact in a natural way via gestures and even via thoughts.
• An article of Jacquard clothing could be trained to recognize any of a hundred specialized body movements or gestures.
• Using gestures without speech could in some cases remove any natural or cognitive advantages that gestures might have over other forms of communication.

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