Sony's big bet on sensors that can see the world

Designed for smartphones and AR devices, these could be mass produced next year

Thu, Oct 26, 2017 - 5:50 AM

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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...

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