You can also add an optional 2.4GHz gyroscopic remote control and a PrimeSense motion sensor just for giggles.
PrimeSense developed the sensors in Microsoft Kinnect, the ones that sees and responds to dancing, jumping or kicking.
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Of all the sensor-based exhibits Scoble showed me, PrimeSense, showed me the greatest promise for an imminent contextual age.
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PrimeSense set up a large suite in the Renaissance Hotel where it showed off diverse applications being created by partners.
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Angle adds, the whole freight train that has moved robotics forward has come from gaming and includes the sensors from Primesense.
Unlike the Kinect, however, PrimeSense doesn't think gestures will play a significant role in how we use Capri to interact with our gadgets.
Unlike Microsoft, PrimeSense will be actively encouraging other developers to create new applications based on its gesture technology in a couple of ways.
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An operator even miles away in front of the PrimeSense sensor could move his body and his arms naturally, while the robot reproduced exactly the same movements.
Shopperception uses PrimeSense technology to provide brick-and-mortar retailers with an amazingly advanced system for understanding precisely and in real-time just what shoppers do in front of a retail shelf.
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Studio9732 believes the technical progress will bring more efficient solutions to the robotics field in the future and sensors, like those from Primesense, will help push the industry forward with sight.
At some point early on in the development cycle, Microsoft split from its partnership with PrimeSense, the company that provided the IP for the first Kinect, in order to go it alone.
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In many respects, PrimeSense appears to be taking the same strategy Google does with Glass: get developers excited about the tech in the hopes they'll come up with clever uses for it.
From Tel Aviv unknown to Xbox gaming wunderkind, PrimeSense has already had quite a run, but the camera-control tech that powers Kinect is destined for new applications before long.
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As for the robot itself, it's currently designed to work with an 11-inch MacBook Air that conveniently doubles as its torso, and it relies on a PrimeSense motion sensor to monitor its surroundings.
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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.
"Robots will be practically everywhere in the near future: assisting the elderly, in home care, as personal and security service providers, and they will circulate within a networked environment of communicating devices in the home and work place, " said Ohad Shvueli, Vice President, Commercial markets, Primesense.
PrimeSense, the Israel-based company that provided some of the technology behind Kinect, has partnered with ASUS and is demoing the WAVI Xtion, a pair of boxes that wirelessly link your PC and TV together, and allow you to access content on both through the controller-free PrimeSense 3D system.
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You may not see Capri embedded on the PCB of your portable gadget anytime soon -- at least, not until PrimeSense winds up wooing the pants off a lucky OEM or two -- so in the meantime, the company has connected the sensor board to the Nexus 10 via micro-USB.
Like Kinect, these solutions will have a pair of 640 x 480 camera sensors to measure user position in 3D space, but don't expect them to have motorized tilt functionality or voice recognition -- PrimeSense said it won't be able to make those available for manufacturers, as they're all Microsoft ideas.
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