Microsoft buying gesture recognition chipmaker Canesta

Microsoft today bought chip designer Canesta in what's believed to be a strategy to move gesture recognition to the PC. The deal will give access to a processing system, CanestaVision, that can convert the image from a camera's CMOS sensor into 3D data for gestures with depth. Microsoft already uses camera-based motion in the Xbox 360's Kinect system launching just next week, suggesting that it's moving beyond its existing technology....



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