Competitor Wiimote and Project Natal Gathers Investment
The new user interface of CanestaVision is nothing more than an analogue with the fan of Microsoft Project Natal announced. Only CanestaVision is cheaper and, in theory, should appear on the market a quarter earlier. This is largely facilitated by investments.
About the management interface gestures from Canesta information "pops up" is not the first time. To start the development of the company used in third-party products . Then, in the summer of this year, Canesta presented its finished product, which, according to the manufacturer (as well as some of the leading players in the market of home appliances, for example, Hitachi) is able to completely replace the remote control . Now, against the background of rush of interest to Project Natal, the competitive development of Canesta interested other experienced manufacturers.
One of the major notebook manufacturers, Quanta, has invested well in the electronic perception technology (Electronic Perseption Technology) and the CanestaVision chip. With $ 16 million from Quanta, the total investment in Canesto was already $ 74 million (Venrock, Carlyle Group and Honda had a “hand”). Investors expect that CanestaVision will become a direct competitor of Project Natal and will be able to “beat” it at the expense of its lower cost, all other things being equal.
CanestaVision is an inexpensive three-dimensional chip based on a CMOS sensor, which, in turn, allows you to create a three-dimensional map of objects in front of the device and identify these objects as obstacles, faces, control gestures, etc. Speaking of competition with Natal, the manufacturer especially notes that chips based on technologies acquired by Microsoft’s 3DV Systems company will cost more than Canesta electronics. Due to the use of gallium arsenide in them.
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It is due to the lower cost of the chip from CanestaVision, even despite the Microsoft marketing machine and the availability of a platform for implementation in the form of Xbox 360, there is a chance to fight for market share. And the fact that the market will be formed does not arise. Yet we are talking about the interface of human interaction with the machine, which is already called revolutionary. It remains to wait for the second half of 2010. It is for this period that the appearance on the market is scheduled, and, CanestaVision and, a little later, Project Natal.
About the management interface gestures from Canesta information "pops up" is not the first time. To start the development of the company used in third-party products . Then, in the summer of this year, Canesta presented its finished product, which, according to the manufacturer (as well as some of the leading players in the market of home appliances, for example, Hitachi) is able to completely replace the remote control . Now, against the background of rush of interest to Project Natal, the competitive development of Canesta interested other experienced manufacturers.
One of the major notebook manufacturers, Quanta, has invested well in the electronic perception technology (Electronic Perseption Technology) and the CanestaVision chip. With $ 16 million from Quanta, the total investment in Canesto was already $ 74 million (Venrock, Carlyle Group and Honda had a “hand”). Investors expect that CanestaVision will become a direct competitor of Project Natal and will be able to “beat” it at the expense of its lower cost, all other things being equal.
CanestaVision is an inexpensive three-dimensional chip based on a CMOS sensor, which, in turn, allows you to create a three-dimensional map of objects in front of the device and identify these objects as obstacles, faces, control gestures, etc. Speaking of competition with Natal, the manufacturer especially notes that chips based on technologies acquired by Microsoft’s 3DV Systems company will cost more than Canesta electronics. Due to the use of gallium arsenide in them.
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It is due to the lower cost of the chip from CanestaVision, even despite the Microsoft marketing machine and the availability of a platform for implementation in the form of Xbox 360, there is a chance to fight for market share. And the fact that the market will be formed does not arise. Yet we are talking about the interface of human interaction with the machine, which is already called revolutionary. It remains to wait for the second half of 2010. It is for this period that the appearance on the market is scheduled, and, CanestaVision and, a little later, Project Natal.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/73102/
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