Report: Apple considering $300M purchase of first-gen Microsoft Kinect gesture-sensor provider

According to two reports on an Israeli website, Apple, Sony, and Samsung are among the suitors for 3D gesture-sensing company PrimeSense, which provided the technology for the first version of Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect as well the Xtion by Asus and several other products.

For a number of years, PrimeSense looked like the prime challenger for ushering in a new user interface based on physical gestures, and its hardware and software is currently in tens of millions of home gaming systems. The technology is interesting for PCs and mobile devices, important for gaming, but potentially critical to the whole new array of living room smart systems that are hitting the market — like the new Xbox One.

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