Reports: Apple To Buy Israeli 3D Sensing Company PrimeSense

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 17, 2013 @08:00PM from the stereo-vision dept.

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.

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Apple bought Israel? by arcite · 2013-11-17 20:40 · Score: 1, Funny

Now we shall have Peace in our time.
Crystal Ball... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-11-17 20:46 · Score: 0, Funny

It says Apple are about to 'invent' 3D sensing. How innovative of them!