{"id":19623,"date":"2015-11-26T09:47:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T17:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/apple-confirms-faceshift-acquisition"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:18:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:18:47","slug":"apple-confirms-faceshift-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/apple-confirms-faceshift-acquisition","title":{"rendered":"Apple Confirms Faceshift Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apple-confirms-faceshift-acquisition.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from <a title=\"Apple stock quotes\" href=\"http:\/\/amigobulls.com\/stocks\/AAPL\">Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)<\/a> has confirmed that Apple has acquired face motion capture software developer Faceshift, <em>TechCrunch<\/em> <a title=\"Apple acquires Faceshift\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/11\/24\/apple-faceshift\/\">reports<\/a>. Though Apple hasn\u2019t disclosed its strategic objectives, it seems likely that Faceshift\u2019s technology can enhance several Apple products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans,\u201d was Apple\u2019s stock comment. However, the previously rumored acquisition has been confirmed, and it appears that several Faceshift employees are now working for Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Note: You might be interested in \u2018<a title=\"10 reasons why Apple is underpriced\" href=\"http:\/\/amigobulls.com\/articles\/10-reasons-why-apple-stock-is-under-priced-part-i\">10 reasons why Apple stock is underpriced<\/a>\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amigobulls.com\/articles\/apple-confirms-faceshift-acquisition?ref=fb\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spokesperson from Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has confirmed that Apple has acquired face motion capture software developer Faceshift, TechCrunch reports. Though Apple hasn\u2019t disclosed its strategic objectives, it seems likely that Faceshift\u2019s technology can enhance several Apple products. \u201cApple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69123,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19623\/revisions\/69123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}