PrimeSense was a fabless semiconductor company and provided products in the area of sensory inputs for consumer and commercial markets.

Microsoft had been looking on its own at 3D camera technology applications to its Xbox line of consoles, and engaged with PrimeSense after the conference to help establish the direction the technology needed to go to make it into consumer-grade products, while Microsoft improved on additional software aspects and incorporated machine learning to help with motion detection.

The solution then used a standard off-the-shelf CMOS image sensor to read the coded light back from the scene using various algorithms to triangulate and extract the 3D data.

[7] The light coding infrared patterns were deciphered in order to produce a VGA size depth image of a scene.

[8] PrimeSense developed NiTE middleware which analyzed the data from hardware and modules for OpenNI providing gesture and skeleton tracking.

[1] Including: PrimeSense's original focus was on the gaming and living room markets,[11] but expanded to include: PrimeSense was a founding member of OpenNI, an industry-led, non-profit organization formed to certify and promote the compatibility and interoperability of Natural Interaction (NI) devices, applications and middleware.