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Re:How Apple Almost Got Microsoft’s Kinect Game Controller by tgflynn on Thursday January 20, 2011 @06:10PM (#2125714)
I had been under the apparently mistaken impression that Microsoft had developed Kinect in house.

Since Microsoft Research has such a strong computer vision team I'm surprised that they needed to go to an outside company for this technology.

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Re:How Apple Almost Got Microsoft’s Kinect Game Controller by brudgers on Thursday January 20, 2011 @06:38PM (#2125795)
Based on the Wikipedia entry, Microsoft developed the gesture, voice and facial recognition software which drives the Kinect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect#Technology
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Re:How Apple Almost Got Microsoft’s Kinect Game Controller by joeyo on Friday January 21, 2011 @12:41AM (#2126576)
But Primesense developed the depth sensor. http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=h0GvAAAAEBAJ
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