Face ID technology and the sensors that the iPhone X hides on its front remain a mystery, or not. The reality is that we imagine that an existing technology has been miniaturized or squeezed to the maximum, if Apple has known how to do something well for a long time, it is to improve an existing technology to make it something really useful and end up standardizing it in a market that is less and less subject to volatile changes .
However, A close look at the depth sensors and scanners included in the iPhone X quickly reminds us of the famous and increasingly disused Xbox Kinect… How are both systems alike?
At least that is the conclusion reached by Paul Miller, the successful editor of The Verge, which has come to the conclusion that the front sensor of the iPhone X shares a lot of reasons with the Xbox Kinect. It basically reminds us that it essentially uses the same sensor systems as Kinect, a product presented almost a decade ago, more specifically in June 2009. If we take into account the sensors and their function, we realize that in essence, beyond those commonly used in a high-end smart mobile phone, they are almost entirely shared.
Another reason is that PrimeSense was the company that basically created Kinect, the same one that was acquired by Apple in 2013 ... what coincidence? Another more certain reason to finish spinning and finish the roll. However, Apple has probably patented and perfected the system, we have no doubt that this would be much more a Kinect 3.0 than a technology created and designed from scratch in Cupertino. But It will be difficult for us to deny from today that the foundations of Face ID and its functionalities such as Animoji have a place quite far from the Apple officesSpecifically, they were forged in Israel and the main investment company was Microsoft.