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Tag: Kinect

Sony PlayStation 4 cumulative sales 2.5 times greater than Microsoft’s Xbox One

Wednesday, May 9, 2018 5:39 pm10 Comments

It’s no secret that the PlayStation 4 has been outselling the Xbox One, but the extent…

Microsoft pulls the plug on Kinect as Apple prepares to launch iPhone X with Face ID

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 3:40 pmWednesday, October 25, 201716 Comments

With days until the launch of the iPhone X and its Face ID camera array, Microsoft’s own motion sensing and facial recognition system…

Sony PS4 trounces Microsoft’s Xbox One over the 2015 holiday season

Thursday, February 4, 2016 9:33 pm12 Comments

2015’s all-important holiday quarter saw Sony continuing to extend its sales lead over the competition…

Sony shames beleaguered Microsoft’s Xbox as juggernaut PlayStation 4 nears 36 million units sold

Tuesday, January 5, 2016 4:14 pmTuesday, January 5, 201618 Comments

Sony’s unstoppable PS4 has chalked up 35.9 million in global sales…

Apple granted major motion control, perhaps gaming-related patent

Tuesday, September 8, 2015 4:26 pmTuesday, September 8, 20154 Comments

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 55 newly granted patents for Apple…

Analyst: Apple working on ‘large, curving piece of glass that can display images’

Thursday, August 13, 2015 5:05 pmThursday, August 13, 201517 Comments

It is likely that Apple is creating a completely new device…

Beleaguered Microsoft’s Xbox One has lost the console war to Sony’s PS4

Wednesday, July 22, 2015 5:28 pmWednesday, July 22, 201537 Comments

The console war is over, and Sony has come out the runaway winner over Microsoft…

Apple wins patent for 3D iPhone UI with motion gestures; reassigns PrimeSense 3D mapping patent

Tuesday, December 9, 2014 1:55 pmTuesday, December 9, 20143 Comments

Kinect-like gestures…

Microsoft’s Xbox One has lost $400 million so far

Monday, August 11, 2014 9:28 amMonday, August 11, 201420 Comments

Microsoft has announced that its latest games console…

Beleaguered Microsoft’s Xbox One is failing

Tuesday, August 5, 2014 5:01 pm39 Comments

During Microsoft’s second quarter, the company sold a total…

Microsoft shortchanges 5 million Xbox One suckers

Monday, May 19, 2014 3:29 pmMonday, May 19, 201421 Comments

Microsoft has a message for you: SUCKERS!

Take a peek at a few key patents that Apple gained with PrimeSense acquisition

Friday, January 24, 2014 3:58 pmFriday, January 24, 20147 Comments

Little did we know at the time that Apple’s Tel Aviv research center…

Forrester: Apple’s PrimeSense acquisition opens up new computing experiences – and enterprise solutions

Friday, November 29, 2013 12:28 pmFriday, November 29, 201312 Comments

Apple has completed an acquisition of the Israeli firm PrimeSense…

Microsoft may regret not buying Apple’s PrimeSense for itself

Tuesday, November 26, 2013 5:31 pmTuesday, November 26, 201312 Comments

Devices are getting too small to fit a keyboard and they are becoming too much a part of our lives…

Kinecting the dots: Why Apple bought PrimeSense

Tuesday, November 26, 2013 1:02 pmTuesday, November 26, 201321 Comments

Apple has made a strategically promising acquisition…

Apple, late to the gesture game, tries to catch up with PrimeSense acquisition

Monday, November 25, 2013 2:29 pmMonday, November 25, 201327 Comments

The gesture-technology plot has thickened…

Analyst: Apple’s PrimeSense acquisition sets stage for future Apple television products

Monday, November 25, 2013 10:28 amMonday, November 25, 20138 Comments

Apple is in early preparation for a television offering…

For what will Apple use PrimeSense’s 3-D motion sensing tech?

Monday, November 25, 2013 9:29 amMonday, November 25, 201317 Comments

Apple finally has acquired PrimeSense…

Apple confirms acquisition of Israel’s PrimeSense, company behind Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect, for $350 million

Monday, November 25, 2013 8:31 amMonday, November 25, 201311 Comments

Apple Inc. agreed to acquire PrimeSense Ltd….

Why is Apple buying the company that invented Microsoft’s Kinect?

Monday, November 18, 2013 3:31 pmMonday, November 18, 201325 Comments

The technology works using sensors and cameras to interpret movement and gestures…

Apple in talks to acquire PrimeSense

Monday, November 18, 2013 8:34 amMonday, November 18, 201312 Comments

Several sources confirm that Apple is in talks to buy PrimeSense…

Apple’s latest patent is a game-changer for iPad

Tuesday, August 20, 2013 9:07 pmTuesday, August 20, 201326 Comments

Users could interact with a touch-sensitive device…

New Xbox One by longtime NSA partner Microsoft to watch users 24/7?

Saturday, June 8, 2013 4:09 pmSaturday, June 8, 201350 Comments

Possible privacy violations by Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox One have come under new scrutiny…

Stumbling Microsoft unveils third Xbox, names it ‘Xbox One’

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 3:39 pm37 Comments

The word ‘living room’ was heard a multitude of times as we learned…

Small USB dongle for your Mac makes Microsoft’s Kinect look like a drunk, stumbling uncle (with video)

Monday, May 21, 2012 12:12 pm41 Comments

Instead of watching you jump around a room, it watches your hands and fingers make tiny movements…

Microsoft destroys beloved Star Wars franchise’s last shred of dignity

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 1:44 pmTuesday, April 3, 201231 Comments

The Special Editions couldn’t do it. The Ewoks coudn’t do it. Even Jar Jar couldn’t do it…

Report: Apple could have obtained Kinect technology before Microsoft

Friday, November 5, 2010 4:10 pmThursday, July 18, 201340 Comments

Apple’s approach to negotiations may have cost it the technology that powers…

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