“Apple has reportedly bought PrimeSense, the Israeli company behind Microsoft’s Kinect motion-sensor technology,” Trevor Mogg writes for Digital Trends.
“The news comes via Israeli financial publication Calcalist (via Reuters), which reported on Sunday that the acquisition cost the tech giant $345 million. The deal appears to be the culmination of long-running negotiations, with the same publication reporting as far back as July that Apple and PrimeSense were in talks over a possibly buyout,” Mogg writes. “PrimeSense’s technology works using sensors and cameras to interpret movement and gestures, allowing users to play video games or control a TV without the need for a physical controller. Yes, that’s correct – TV.”
Mogg writes, “A Bloomberg report in October quoting Japanese analyst Masahiko Ishino claimed the Cupertino company was developing 55-inch and 65-inch Ultra HD/4K TV models for launch before the end of 2014, priced between $1,500 and $2,500.”
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Hmm, not sure. But I do find myself smiling at such a possibility.
Could also be using it for air gestures….
I’ve been using air gestures since kindergarten.
It was the third grade before I knew what they meant.
I find it hard to believe they would make a TV but gesture control for Apple TV would be cool
They just want Gene Munster to make up more stuff.
Or just a certain gesture towards MS?
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Stop copy-pasting this crap. It is not original, not funny, and not clever. YouTube is already flooded with this BS.
You’re just jealous little man.
I think it’s funny, and just a little clever, too. 😉
Adam has been bitching since Eve ate the apple and blamed it on the snake.
I could be wrong, but I don’t imagine Apple marketing a 4K device of any size until there is significant 4K content and bandwidth for consumers to access it.
But then, who woulda thunk we needed 64 bit cellphones.
Presumably Apple would announce 4k iTunes content when they announced 4k TVs. Netflix is already testing 4k streaming and planning to make it available within 2 years.
Come on. There’s already 4K video content on YouTube. We can just watch that all day long 🙂
Halo’d??
this tech is awesome for virtual reality games if nothing else. I think it points deeper gaming tech soon for Apple TV
just open the Apple TV now the way it is to developers and game controllers and then “poof”
That would be Halo’d or maybe KO’d
I still don’t get the need for a full screen Apple TV?? Who cares how good the enclosure looks? It’s already so thin. I can already go buy a 4K TV.
So what am I missing? I have a large thin non samscum flat screen. Even if they made one. And I have multiples of all the hardware. I wouldn’t want it even if it had hand jestures?
The only way Apple would offer a 4K TV is if it also had some breakthrough for content delivery. Current high-speed internet really can’t handle the data for 4K content. The only viable content delivery would be Blu-Ray, and I don’t know how keen movie studios are going to be about pressing 4K discs when most people just switched to Blu-Ray and HDTV over the past couple of years.
Apple already has patents for gesture control, so this is more about gaining engineering experts than specific hardware.
Oh they would love to press 4k disks so that they can get us to pay yet again for the same content (BETA, VHS, DVD, Blue-Ray and now Super Blue-Ray) in some cases all they did was put the same content on the new medium no rescanning or any quality upgrades.
And they said you weren’t paying attention!
I’m thinking Minority Report style gestures….?
Try Minority Report style sounds. The sound that the iPhone makes when you plug it in the charger is the same as the sound sliding doors make in that movie.
So does Apple’s acquisition of this company’s technology means MS has to pay Apple a royalty to continue to use it in their products?
Stroke out that check MS…
A TV? No. A 4K Cinema Display Cinema display at 65 inches which could play TV content or display a computer’s signal? Yeah
Silly Siri duplicated my text
When they mature the hand gesture control technology, they will likely put it to work in tablets and computers, obsoleting touch screen OSes. It would obsolete many input devices too. Let’s hope the technology means moving your fingers and not waving your arms.