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They were too early to deploy the technology. LiDAR is common on smartphones now. On iPhones you can capture the back of the phone’s LiDaR data .
by zitterbewegung 2y ago
They were too early to deploy the technology. LiDAR is common on smartphones now. On iPhones you can capture the back of the phone’s LiDaR data .
- sleepybrett 2y agoApple bought the company (primesense) that made the kinect 1.
- kridsdale1 2y agoYes I looked for this in the article. “The weird afterlife of Kinect” is that it became FaceID and is on hundreds of millions of beloved devices. By that metric the Kinect is a ridiculous success as a hardware innovation. Strange that it wasn’t mentioned.
- sleepybrett 2y agobecause the 'microsoft kinect' itself was not a success, because microsoft did a poor job of capitalizing on it and let it die on the vine.