> PrimeSense was never solely responsible for the technology in Microsoft’s Kinect — as evidenced by the huge improvements Microsoft made to Kinect 2.0 on its own — and it’s also obvious that Apple is doing plenty of new software and processing work on top of this hardware. But the basic idea of the Kinect is unchanged. And now it’s in a tiny notch on the front of a $999 iPhone.
The underlying technology was acquired by Apple and is used on iPhones for FaceID, https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/17/16315510/i...
> PrimeSense was never solely responsible for the technology in Microsoft’s Kinect — as evidenced by the huge improvements Microsoft made to Kinect 2.0 on its own — and it’s also obvious that Apple is doing plenty of new software and processing work on top of this hardware. But the basic idea of the Kinect is unchanged. And now it’s in a tiny notch on the front of a $999 iPhone.