Apple Inc agreed to purchase Israel-based PrimeSense Ltd, a developer of chips that enable three-dimensional machine vision, for about $350 million, Bloomberg reported on Sunday citing a source. PrimeSense's sensing technology, which gives digital devices the ability to observe a scene in three dimensions, was used to help power Microsoft's Xbox Kinect.Apple's interest in PrimeSense was first reported in July by the Israel-based Calacist news website."Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans," a company spokeswoman Kristin Huguet told Reuters via email.PrimeSense could not be immediately reached for comment outside regular U.S. business hours.
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