Adinnieken on 10 July 2013
| endimion said: well who knows, but if they are really interested by the tech I agree they could be looking at acquiring occulus riff ... if I recall it's pretty much how Kinect came to existence no ??? didn't they bought out a company working on motion tracking for that ??? |
No.
Microsoft began working on Kinect in 2006. By 2007 they were working on it in earnest, meaning they had greenlighted the project for further development. In fact, they had started with PrimeSense from the beginning. 3DV used a totally difference way to measure depth. Kinect 2 uses the technology they aquired from 3DV, Kinect 1 uses PrimeSense. Prior to that, however Microsoft Research had been working on depth sensing technology. The tabletop device that previously had the Surface name, incorporated this technology.
