Sony ups its motion-detection game with Softkinetic buy

Sony has snapped up Softkinetic Systems, a Belgian developer of distance- and motion-detecting cameras and sensors, it said Thursday.
Softkinetic uses a technique called time-of-flight measurement to determine the distance of an object from a sensor, or different parts of an object from a camera, by bouncing packets of photons off it.
The Kinect sensor for Microsoft's Xbox One console already uses the technique to identify players and recognize gestures to control games.
Sony, on the other hand