By Dean Takahashi

SoftKinetic is one of many sensor companies promoting 3D cameras in the wake of Microsoft’s success with the Kinect motion sensors for the Xbox 360. But while Microsoft has already sold 18 million Kinect system, Michel Tombroff, chief executive of SoftKinetic, says motion-sensing technology is just getting off the ground.

Tombroff says the company’s “time-of-flight” technology is more responsive than the PrimeSense technology used in the Kinect system and that makes applications using SoftKinetic more accurate. With time-of-flight, the camera sends out a signal into a room and waits for it to bounce off of an object. When the signal returns, the SoftKinetic software calculates how far away the object is and then draws a 3D map of the space in front of the camera.

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