Sony's big bet on sensors that can see the world
Designed for smartphones and AR devices, these could be mass produced next year
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Tokyo
ONE OF Sony Corp's most promising bets on the future is hiding in plain sight. Inside the electronics maker's Atsugi Technology Center, a research campus located an hour outside Tokyo, engineers and researchers are developing sensors that can detect people and objects by calculating how long it takes for light to reflect off surfaces.
With plans to go into mass production next year, Sony's new class of sensors are designed for smartphones and augmented-reality (AR) devices. Eventually, the new chips could find their way into drones, self-driving automobiles, gaming consoles, industrial equipment, factory and warehouse robots, and many other machines that interact with their environments.
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