Apple reportedly bids for firm behind Kinect sensor

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Apple has reportedly made an offer of $280 million to acquire fabless semiconductor company PrimeSense, the Israeli firm that provided the tech behind the original Kinect.

According to local newspaper Calcalist (via Verge), the iPhone maker tabled the bid for the 3D sensing and machine vision technologies specialist following discussions over the embedding of its tech in Apple products.

PrimSense, which was founded in 2005, claims its technology powers more than 20 million devices.

In April, Apple posted its first quarterly drop in profits in ten years. The company made a net profit of $9.5 billion (£6.2b) for its fiscal 2013 second quarter, down from $11.6 billion (£7.6b) a year earlier, while generating record March quarter revenue of $43.6 billion (£28.6b) following jumps in iPhone and iPad sales.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said at the time: "Our teams are hard at work on some amazing new hardware, software, and services and we are very excited about the products in our pipeline."

In May, Apple said iOS App Store downloads had topped 50 billion. And earlier this month, the company revealed the all-time best selling iPhone and iPad apps.

Posted: Jul 16, 2013 9:52 am
Related Forum: Mobile Devices

Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/419301/apple-reportedly-bids-for-firm-behind-kinect-sensor/

Comments

Aruss94Posted: Wed. Jul 17, 2013

seriously kinect will continue to be stupid. the only way to have controller-less? gaming is when u have goggles on and it feels like your're actually there. other than that kinect is just a money gag. theres no fun in it

-YukiPosted: Wed. Jul 17, 2013

JayM325 As Steve Jobs once quoted picasso, "Good artists copy, great artists steal."
Steve jobs built apple using others products.
Bill Gates built Microsoft using apples products.
And now it circles around again.

Yep, as I believe Bill Gates said about Apple/Steve Jobs, "If you didn't want me to use it you should of copyrighted it", or something like that. I think it pretty ironic though.

JayM325Posted: Wed. Jul 17, 2013

As Steve Jobs once quoted picasso, "Good artists copy, great artists steal."
Steve jobs built apple using others products.
Bill Gates built Microsoft using apples products.
And now it circles around again.

TTG_Semper-FiPosted: Tue. Jul 16, 2013

Katsumi
Deathsbugsy
Katsumi
-Wub The Kinect sucks!

How would you possibly know that the Xbox One Kinect sucks? Don't judge a product that has not been released yet.

"The Kinect" Could be referring to the original kinect.. Which did suck... :l

Well i honestly can't deny that the Xbox 360 Kinect Sucked. The Mic was almost as unusable and the motion controls.

The only thing bad about the original Kinect was the Mic everything else was amazing. It blew everyone away that you no longer needed a controller to play games.

DiffucultPosted: Tue. Jul 16, 2013

Yeah , I wouldn't buy this Because i dont play with that what so ever..

KatsumiPosted: Tue. Jul 16, 2013

-Mark Kinect has yet to impress many people. But I do see a lot of potential in Kinect.

With updated technology the possibilities for it seem endless.

I see a lot of potential with the Xbox One Kinect. If they can make it Accurate and blend seamlessly in with the console experience then i am excited in what they will try and do with it

KatsumiPosted: Tue. Jul 16, 2013

Deathsbugsy
Katsumi
-Wub The Kinect sucks!

How would you possibly know that the Xbox One Kinect sucks? Don't judge a product that has not been released yet.

"The Kinect" Could be referring to the original kinect.. Which did suck... :l

Well i honestly can't deny that the Xbox 360 Kinect Sucked. The Mic was almost as unusable and the motion controls.

MaggardoPosted: Tue. Jul 16, 2013

280$ Million! Whoa, wish I had that in my piggy bank! O.O

DawPosted: Tue. Jul 16, 2013

Wow Apple. I'm dissapointed :/

SCOPosted: Tue. Jul 16, 2013

-Mark Kinect has yet to impress many people. But I do see a lot of potential in Kinect.

With updated technology the possibilities for it seem endless.

I see kinect's target market as families and kids. Im 15 and i really could be botherd to use it doing movements to play games.. i prefer just to use a controller.

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