Facebook-owned Oculus has acquired Israel-based Pebbles Interfaces, a computer vision and gesture recognition startup that could help the company to incorporate hand movements in virtual reality.

Gesture control is a neat, but largely inessential perk for laptops and desktops, but for virtual reality? Well, it’s the difference between viewing VR apps and games and really experiencing them. And ...

Oculus has bought an Israeli gesture recognition firm, potentially bringing the ability to interact with the worlds shown in its Rift virtual reality headset. The company, Pebbles, makes kit so that ...