Kinect Could Have Been On Mac Instead Of Xbox 360

Surprising? The magic technology behind Kinect is PrimeSense.

Inon Beracha, CEO of PrimeSense has said in an interview that their first choice was Apple and not Microsoft.

“It was the most natural place for the technology,” he tells Cult of Mac. Indeed, PrimeSense had already help several meetings with Apple executives, and Apple went so far as to bring some contracts and deals to the table.

That, however, is when it all went wrong.

“Apple is a pain in the ass,” Beracha says.

Apple’s notoriously controlling team was asking Beracha to “sign a stack of crippling legal agreements and NDAs”, which almost instantly had PrimeSense walking away. Why deal with Apple and all those restrictions when they could sell it to someone who could pay just as much, but be easier to work with?

source Cult of Mac (via Kotaku)

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