Reports: Apple To Buy Israeli 3D Sensing Company PrimeSense 81
Several sources, including this report at Forbes, and this one at All Things Digital, say that Apple has bought (or is in the process of buying) Tel-Aviv based PrimeSense, the company behind the 3-D sensing technology in Microsoft's Kinect, for $345 million. The Forbes piece also gives a compact but interesting summary of the possibilities of ubiquitous 3-D hardware, and the sudden, recent drop in price of the components necessary for that to happen. Devices like the Lynx 3-D scanner that I saw at last year's SXSW (targeting the cheap and portable end of the 3-D scanning market) may have a lot of competition in the near future.
Re:Patents (Score:5, Insightful)
Don't you just love how patents are primarily used to ensure technology will never be used and combined in new ways?
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Re:SnapChat fo 4 bil and Prime sense for 345 mil (Score:4, Insightful)