Nowhere have they ever claimed that it was all their work, and I'm struggling to see what else they could do when forking an OSS project to meet your criteria. Other companies with their roots in Israel are ICQ, Kinect inventors PrimeSense, web community-based GPS system Waze, Comverse, Amdocs, Mellanox and face recognition API Face.com, recently purchased by Facebook. Israeli entrepreneurs always look for the next big thingwhy wont you join them Additional sources: Israel Startup MapAhh, WebKit, you mean KHTML that Apple STOLE from Konqueror and that Google and Opera had to fix with Blink.OpenNI/NITE Installation on Windows May 2014: PrimeSense was bought by Apple at the end of April, and the OpenNI.org website was shut down. Fortunately, several sites have set up archives of the old OpenNI and NITE software, such as Simple-OpenNI and Structure Sensor.The depth information alone can be handy for a robot that may need to avoid an object.

PrimeSense devices allow the new Microsoft Kinect for XBox 360 to understand what is going on in the living room. Essentially, they let machines see you or your general location in 3D, allowing the machines to learn the context of a situation. PrimeSense is the best of the 3D sensor companies we found.

This is Apple's choice of course, but it makes it difficult for investors and curious journalists to get a sense of where the ship is headed. 'Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose, or plans,' Kristin Huguet, a communications manager told Reuters. What was recently the size of a guitar case and the cost of a Smart Car will soon be about the size of a stick of gum and about the price of a jumbo pack sold from those Walmart shelves.Speaking of intent, Apple, as usual, isn't saying much about why it is making the acquisition.

Divorcing PrimeSense from Microsoft would be bad for customers and bad for Apple's newly acquired asset.The only caution I feel about this deal is based on Apple's acquisition history. There is some speculation that Apple bought PrimeSense as a defensive move because of Kinect's potential to become the Contextual Age's household management platform. PrimeSense technology can be an obvious asset in security, the battle for the living room and so much more. PrimeSense can bring Apple to the retail shelf, where it has not been a player. PrimeSense could also greatly enhance the capability of an iWatch that outsiders really don't know much about. But the implications go far beyond.

Now the voice of Siri can acquire the eyes of PrimeSense, and that in itself could be a very big deal. So far, mobile phones have come to understand voice command in a clumsy sort of way, and to talk back in a slightly better fashion. The company then seemingly invested more into a glitzy ad campaign than in evolving the technology-which has since been passed by rivalBut PrimeSense can bring back Siri. The brilliant natural voice recognition technology was purchased from Stanford Research Institute back in 2010.

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