Apple is planning to spend 2.8-3 billion acquisition of early Kinect Microsoft technical support team - Israeli semiconductor company PrimeSense. Report referred to a delegation of senior executives from the PrimeSense visited in recent days Apple technical department. If the takeover is successful, PrimeSense will activate the Apple family television interactively, Apple TV to achieve somatosensory operation and gesture control is not a dream.
Founded in 2005, natural interaction PrimeSense is an open organization (OpneNI) originally created one of the members. Early use is PrimeSense Kinect development, the first to be called Project Natal technology. However, Microsoft's Project Natal was subsequently developed their own 3D mapping and mobile technology instead.
2011 CES Conference and Expo, PrimeSense also demonstrated developed in cooperation with the ASUS WAVI Xtion box. PrimeSense WAVI Xtion can hope to expand outside of the game such as multimedia playback and web browsing market, but finally could not cause much reaction.
