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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by cbhl on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:21PM (#15552659)
Wasn't the Kinect technology acquired by Apple? My impression is the top sensor bar in the iPhone X is essentially a miniaturized Kinect, so we should see more Kinect-like applications now that it fits in your pocket.
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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by sorenjan on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @05:06PM (#15554267)
Apple bought Primesense who made the technology behind Kinect 1. That uses structured light just like the iPhone X.

Kinect 2 uses Time of Flight developed, as far as I know, by Microsoft.

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DanielLau/20131127/205820/Th...

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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by ansgri on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:33PM (#15552805)
AFAIR, it was acquired by ASUS. Original Kinect was developed by an Israel company Xtion, which now lives as a trademark of ASUS game accessories: https://www.asus.com/3D-Sensor/All-Series/

The core technology (structured light in iPhone X and Kinect 1, ToF in Kinect 2) is rather straightforward (for a computer vision researcher, that is...), it's hardware (embedded CPU, cheap sensors and lasers) that enabled its mass adoption.

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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by Qworg on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:45PM (#15552939)
Primesense was the source of the structured light technology in the Kinect v1. They were purchased by Apple.

They produced an ASIC that ran the structured light system, as well as a custom grating to produce a very specific light pattern.

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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by eltoozero on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @06:37PM (#15554909)
> acquired by ASUS. Original Kinect was developed by an Israel company Xtion

Xtion was a Primesense ASUS partnership to bring the tracking technology to the PC.

Xtion was not a separate company but rather an ASUS branded Kinect-like sensor.

Primesense made the sensors for both Kinect and the Xtion.[0]

Primesense was later purchased by Apple in 2013.[1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrimeSense

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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by clarkmoody on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:41PM (#15552899)
We got tons of use out of the ASUS version of Kinect (Xtion PRO) in my research lab. It worked very well and had a smaller form-factor than Kinect.
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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by brutus1213 on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:37PM (#15552847)
How does primesense fit into it? I thought primesense was the company acquired by apple?
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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by ansgri on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:41PM (#15552902)
Don't know about primesense, I was answering to "Wasn't the Kinect technology acquired by Apple?".
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