Apple purchased PrimeSense for mapping instead of motion sensing technology?

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While gesture control would be fun, it would be great if Apple seriously improved its mapping technology, especially outside the U.S.

With PrimeSense, Apple Got Key Mapping Technology

But PrimeSense’s technology is much more strategic for mapping, according to one person familiar with the company. In fact, companies like Matterport, which makes a camera for mapping three-dimensional spaces, use its chips.

We know Apple cares about mapping. The company bought WifiSLAM, an indoor GPS company, to help it map out malls and another indoor spaces in a race against Google, which is doing the same. Sooner rather than later, our phones will pull up scans of real spaces we want to visit or may be approaching. Those two-dimensional maps will seem very obsolete.

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