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July 16, 2013 05:26 pm GMT
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Gesture In The Picture, As Intel Picks Up Omek But PrimeSense Dismisses Apple Acquisition Rumors
Yet more exits for Israeli startups, with the latest two developments a throwback to the hardware and engineering muscle that raised the tech profile of the region in the first place, before the Waze's of the world got us thinking about Israel as a hotbed of consumer internet companies. Today, reports leaked out that Intel has acquired Omek Interactive, a company it had already invested in that makes technology for gesture-based interfaces. At the same time, Israel publication the Calcalist is reporting that Apple is circling around PrimeSense, another developer of gesture-based technology that has been used in Microsoft's Kinect.Together, the moves could be a sign that gesture-based controls such as those in Microsoft's Kinect may become even more prevalent.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/JZEBFuiwc_k/
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