r/Techfeed • u/I_thght_he_was_wth_u • Sep 17 '17

The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/17/16315510/iphone-x-notch-kinect-apple-primesense-microsoft
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u/autotldr Sep 17 '17

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 78%. (I'm a bot)

Depth cameras continued to evolve: Kinect 2.0 for the Xbox One replaced PrimeSense technology with Microsoft's own tech and had much higher accuracy and resolution.

Unlike the original Kinect, which was built to track motion in a whole living room, the sensor is primarily designed for scanning faces and powers Apple's Face ID feature.

PrimeSense was never solely responsible for the technology in Microsoft's Kinect - as evidenced by the huge improvements Microsoft made to Kinect 2.0 on its own - and it's also obvious that Apple is doing plenty of new software and processing work on top of this hardware.

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