Primesense

PrimeSense was an Israeli fabless semiconductor and 3D-sensing company, best known for co-developing the depth-sensing technology behind Microsoft's Kinect and for sponsoring the open-source OpenNI (Open Natural Interaction) framework and its NiTE middleware for skeleton tracking and gesture recognition. The company shipped the PrimeSensor reference design and PS1080 system-on-chip for structured-light depth cameras. Apple acquired PrimeSense in November 2013 for roughly $360M; the OpenNI project and openni.org were subsequently wound down (openni.org now redirects to apple.com) and the company's developer program, website, and API/docs hosts are no longer online. Only legacy Apache-2.0 source repositories (the OpenNI sensor driver and NiTE controls) remain public on GitHub. There is no live web/REST API surface for PrimeSense.

Primesense is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, 3D Sensing, Depth Camera, Computer Vision, and Middleware.

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Company3D SensingDepth CameraComputer VisionMiddlewareSemiconductorAcquiredDefunct

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  developer program, website, and API/docs hosts are no longer online. Only legacy Apache-2.0 source repositories (the OpenNI
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