Microsoft Talks Up Windows 8 "Sensor Fusion"

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By Paul Thurrott

While most PC users are probably familiar with the concept of hardware peripherals based on technologies such as USB, there’s a new generation of hardware coming to tomorrow’s Windows-based devices that borrows some ideas from the smartphone world. Called sensors, these hardware components will help Windows 8 devices interact in exciting new ways with the outside world, and today Microsoft provided a hint about how Windows 8 combines some sensor data into a cohesive single interface.

 

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Edited April 28, 2014 by AWS