Founded in 2005, the Israeli company produces chips used in three-dimensional sensing products. Its technology is used in Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect.
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Microsoft’s Kinect Rome, November 25, 2013
Apple has bought Israel’s PrimeSense, a company specializing in 3D sensors that worked on Kinect, Microsoft’s video game console hands-free.
The news of the purchase, as reported in the online edition of the BBC, has been confirmed in a press PrimeSense but no financial details. The price, according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal, should be around $ 360 million.
Several companies are experimenting with gestural control technologies. In October 2011, reports the BBC, Apple itself has filed a patent for controlling devices without physical contact.
, told the British TV Nitin Bhat, partner of the consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, “is one of the mega trends and industry. From the perspective of Apple seems an attempt to make their gadgets more attractive “. One such technology, he added, could be integrated into a future product line “that includes an Apple TV.”
PrimeSense has also recently launched a 3D scanner that allows you to ‘scan’ an object in your environment and play with a 3D printer.
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