It offers a fascinating glimpse back to the origins of the PC and tech revolution.
"It is a bit of a reach for Nvidia as it does not typically involve itself much with the end-user, " said Josh Walrath from the PC Perspective tech site.
That lets the Meta 1 track your gestures, individual fingers and walls or other physical surfaces, all of which are processed in the PC with motion tracking tech to give the illusion of virtual objects anchored to the real world.
Ten years ago, PCs were king of tech and the PC sector was dominated by desktop models.
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As tablets eat into the PC market, and the tech market in general, competition will ramp up.
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The case has been complicated by two other factors, reported French tech news site PC Inpact.
Tech research outfit Gartner expects to see PC shipments record their first year-over-year decline since the recession in the aftermath of the tech bubble bursting 12 years ago.
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While Western Digital does sell more than just disk drives, almost all of its products are PC related, linking it to depressed tech giants Intel ( INTC) and Microsoft ( MSFT) in many minds.
While companies like Apple are selling record numbers of iPhones, iPads, and other units, tech giant Microsoft did warn that slowing PC demand would impact the industry going forward.
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When Mr. Dell informed directors about the potential of taking Dell private last summer, people familiar with the matter said Mr. Mandl was among the board members skeptical about the idea amid the company's tough attempted transition from PC and server maker to a broader corporate software and tech services provider.
Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) downgraded Microsoft (MSFT) on the PC slowdown, so that put some early pressure on mega cap tech.
Tech tracker Gartner reported earlier this month that fourth-quarter PC shipments fell 1.4% from the year-ago quarter.
Manufacturers backing Android could potentially miss out on the two tech giants' massive advertising budgets, which have aided customers in the PC industry.
Kinahan, chief derivatives strategist for TD Ameritrade, expressed some concern about tech earnings in a conversation earlier Thursday, noting that a lot of PC-makers had foreshadowed some challenges on the revenue side in September.
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For answers to questions about upgrading to Windows XP without buying a new computer, Microsoft's MP3 audio quality and running PC programs on an emulator, check out my Mossberg's Mailbox column in Tech Center.
In a report last week tech tracker iSuppli found that rising sales of tablet computers are hurting notebook PC sales, resulting in a decline in sales of traditional hard disk drives which rely on spinning magnetic disks.
The ability to integrate computing and communications functions will be vital as the PC industry stagnates and the market for smartphones and tablets is turning into a battle royale that has sucked in everyone from PC software titan Microsoft and online bookseller Amazon to search advertising titan Google, Korean tech conglomerate Samsung, and, of course, Apple.
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"Apple, you could argue, sets the standard for a lot of aspects of PC design, quite frankly, " says Crawford Del Prete, vice president of research at tech market tracker IDC.
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