May 7, 2012 – In 2008, the Walt Disney Company established an R&D unit called Disney Research. This effort was aimed at unlocking innovations and technology advances through an “an informal network of research labs that collaborate closely with academic institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH)”. Three researchers working with Disney Research recently introduced Touché a technology that enables Gesture Recognition by using capacitive sensing.
