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Apple Officializes Purchase of Motion-Sensor Firm PrimeSense
The reports that Apple was to buy Israeli 3-D sensor maker PrimeSense have turned out to be correct; the BBC reports that Apple has confirmed the purchase, though it is mum both about the price it paid and about where 3D sensors are likely to show up first in the Apple lineup. Also at the Register and Apple Insider, among others.
I don't know what form the next wave of UI will take, but I do hope it doesn't involve me carrying around miniature semaphore flags.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Good thing clippy never got ahold of that stuff... I can see it now: Screen real estate and click blocking modal screen that says "Hello! You appear to be masturbating! Would you like me to a) order you a lube refill from amazon.com, b) give you a list of porn sites based on Alexa ratings, c) turn on your webcam, or d) enact your FREE TRIAL to e-harmony..."
Just for once...
I'd like to hear about Apple doubling down on their internal quality control (which barely exists anymore) and spending some money on solidifying their existing products and IP. Get rid of that fucking yearly release schedule that forces their teams to work on "new" half baked features for the next release (rather then fixing all the bugs in the current release), and actually start releasing STABLE platforms that people can rely on again. Make sure that any feature you do include in a new release is actually well thought out (tags in 10.9 aren't, and of course they removed the perfectly valid file highlighting to make way for that) and include 99% of the features that anything you're replacing had.
I could frankly care less about this PrimeSense bullshit, and I dread whatever product Apple is trying to stuff it into next. I just want them to fix the stuff they already have, and start releasing hardware and software that I can stop worrying about ("is the next upgrade going to break all my software again?"... "what features that I rely on today are they going to remove tomorrow?"... "what horrible design decisions are they going to force on me next month?"...).
Really?
where 3D sensors are likely to show up first in the Apple lineup
My bet is on the iPod shuffle. Adjusting the pounding base depending upon muscle constriction in the surrounding environment.
Calling PrimeSense technology a "Motion-sensor" is like calling an iPhone a music player. Technically true; It can do that, but it doesn't really describe the product very well.
Are you serious?
It will keep the greasy fingers off.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Heheh, stupid goyim. Soon, their digital tracking devices will be able to detect their positions in 3D space, transmitting reconstructed 3D models of their immediate surroundings directly to our data centers. Our world hegemony is almost complete!
Still holding on to Clippy jokes, are we?
I didn't think it was possible for little Timmy to get any worse but this officializes it.
Some things just never get old.
Your stereotype of Clippy is less helpful than the Clippy I remember.
Any proper Clippy should offer to improve on technique because he was all about maximizing productivity of the task you are focused on.
Priest: "Universe from nothing, no laws of physics, sped up time"+ huge discrepancies. Creationism? No. Big Bang Theory
This will certainly leave a lot of robots blind with so many robotics research labs and companies relying on their sensors.
At least he got modded. Sweet.
Newspaper Clippy went mad on this article, putting two and two two-gather came up with a rather lippy clippy, moreso than Tzivy Lipnys warrant evasion!
IRSrealli companies proportionate to "others" seem to get the bulk of the sweetest of sweet contracts, M&M`s, M&A`s, as well as their illegal nuclear weapons program, and their weaponisation of space (Mars Barr, anyone?)
One might well get *clipped round the ears*(youtube.com/watch?v=BOdEAaoIs_U) for seconding this, but the biggest thing that stux out of Clippy`s clipping was the "israeli Insider Trading" and the utter-lack-of-proportionality(ratio of israeli contractors vs others)-when considering AKAMAI,AMDOCS,ONAVO, and on and on and on and, "WHAMPOAH! yu get slapped with a gefulte fish!"
israeli-linked-insider-trading allegations are just the tip of the icelandic banking crisis, like the natural-gas-fields-of-Gaza, the israelis got the rigs marketed, and markets rigged.
"a diamond a day keeps Congo in hospital"- Yamaha Zuma
"gday mite, whats up?" "aw, uranium and gold" -Rupert Murdereroch to Janet Yellin
Back to you, MadMax!
This is the company that have developed the Kinect for Microsoft. What do you think is the future of the Kinect? Is it in the Microsoft's hands, now?
My guess is the courtroom.
You remember a 'helpful' Clippy? I mostly remember "it seems you are type, would you like a tutorial on that?".
In other words, completely useless and quite the opposite of 'helpful'.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
You know Microsoft has full access to all of PrimeSense's patents right? They made this thing called Kinect with the technology.
Yeah, that might have been an issue back in 2008 when your link was from, but time heals all wounds - and repairs many electronic defects.
Here in modern times we have LED displays that do not have that issue.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Officializes?
No, thanks.
order you a lube refill from amazon.com
That seems more like what it might do for Ubuntu users.
You made up another new word.
You forgot chatroulette