{"id":9239,"date":"2013-12-05T08:08:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T16:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9239"},"modified":"2023-08-25T01:17:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T06:17:13","slug":"could-apples-next-products-have-minority-report-like-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/could-apples-next-products-have-minority-report-like-control","title":{"rendered":"Could Apple\u2019s next products have Minority Report-like control?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-apples-next-products-have-minority-report-like-control.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-contributor\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvice.com\/author\/raymond-wong\">Raymond Wong<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-post-date\">Monday, November 25, 2013<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-post-date\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-post-date\">\n<p>We don\u2019t usually write much about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvice.com\/archives\/2011\/08\/google_buys_mot.php\">buyouts<\/a> here at DVICE. Buyouts usually go something like this: big company pays a crap-ton of money for smaller company and then we never hear from the smaller company again. Whoopty doo.<\/p>\n<p>But Apple\u2019s latest buyout of <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20131124\/apple-confirms-acquisition-of-3d-sensor-startup-primesense\/?mod=atd_homepage_carousel\">PrimeSense<\/a> for $360 million is worth some discussion because the company\u2019s tech could become part of the building blocks for the living room of the future. That, or we could be looking at some serious <em>Minority Report<\/em>-type tablets or Macs.<\/p>\n<p>PrimeSense was the company behind the 3D depth camera tech in the original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvice.com\/tags\/kinect\">Kinect<\/a> (Microsoft has since moved on with its own in-house tech for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvice.com\/2013-9-5\/xbox-one-launch-day-set-november-22\">Xbox One\u2019s<\/a> Kinect). Microsoft talked the big talk in 2010, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvice.com\/2013-3-6\/kinect-fusion-creates-3d-models-scanned-objects\" target=\"_blank\">hacks<\/a> were a nice distraction, but ultimately, Kinect\u2019s primitive technology only managed to make us look like silly fools dancing around to <em>Dance Central<\/em> in front of our TVs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvice.com\/2013-11-25\/could-apples-next-products-have-minority-report-control\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond Wong Monday, November 25, 2013 We don\u2019t usually write much about buyouts here at DVICE. Buyouts usually go something like this: big company pays a crap-ton of money for smaller company and then we never hear from the smaller company again. Whoopty doo. But Apple\u2019s latest buyout of PrimeSense for $360 million is worth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,43,20,37,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-business","category-futurism","category-human-trajectories","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170441,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239\/revisions\/170441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}