Robots have toiled for years in manufacturing, medical applications and the military but beyond a few exceptions like iRobot’s Roomba, few have stepped into our daily lives yet. To become consumer products, robots need to operate in the messy world of human beings and not the sterile and structured environment of the factory floor. PrimeSense 3D sensors give…
An exoskeleton helps a paraplegic to walk again. A pint-sized device moves plants around a nursery. A personal car co-pilot improves your driving skills. Robots are on their way into our daily lives, but you may not recognize them when they get here. Our robot future will look very different than the movies. The vast majority of robots…
Last night was awesome! We were invited to demonstrate some real live mobile 3D sensing applications with a few of our OpenNI Partners at the official Google I/O After Hours party. We brought along our Capri sensor and demonstrated applications using the Nexus 10 tablet from Google and Android’s operating system. Yup, the Nexus 10. We also had…
When Tel Aviv, Israel-based PrimeSense came out with its first depth-sensitive, near-infrared camera-on-a-chip in 2010, nobody could have predicted how many uses hardware makers would dream up for the technology within a few short years. The first and most famous was Microsoft’s Kinect sensor, which lets gamers move their bodies to interact with video games. But now PrimeSense chips are…
Take the 3D sensor inside the Microsoft Kinect, shrink it down to a tenth of its original size and add a bunch of mobile capabilities, and you have yourself PrimeSense’s latest conquest, better known as Capri. The company, which is the brains behind the Kinect, has been openly working on bringing a tiny-yet-advanced 3D experience to tablets, televisions…
PrimeSense hosts OpenNI partners at official Google I/O After Hours party TEL AVIV and SAN FRANCISCO (May 15, 2013 at 7:05 p.m. Pacific Time) – PrimeSense™ (http://www.primesense.com/), the leader in Natural Interaction and 3D sensing, is showcasing the latest developments in mobile applications that take advantage of PrimeSense 3D depth sensing technology using Nexus 10 devices and Android’s…
How many times have you been walking and texting (or biking and texting, heaven forbid) and walked right into something – a bench, a trashcan, off the sidewalk and into a person? Maybe a few more times than you care to admit. And even though there seems to be an app for just about everything these days, how…
At PrimeSense, our talented software and middleware engineers on the research and development teams work very hard to create interesting applications and software with our 3D sensors. They are always producing an array of applications, sensor utilities and computer vision algorithms to find the best practice and useful tools for the developer community. Sometimes these creations find their…
The 20 Hottest Startups From The World’s 2nd-Biggest Startup Factory – Israel Israel calls itself the “startup nation.” Israelis say that technology is the country’s No. 1 export. By some counts, Israel is home to 4,800 startups today. It’s also home to least two dozen accelerator/incubator programs in the Tel Aviv area, alone, including some run by Microsoft and Google. There…
Quad-core smart TVs? Move over, Samsung and Haier, because another company’s now joining the party. At a press event in Beijing yesterday, Chinese video content provider LeTV announced its first TV series dubbed “Super TV.” Despite the cheesy name, there are a handful of big names behind it: Kai-Fu Lee’s Innovation Works, Qualcomm, Foxconn and Sharp. The last…