Apple Inc. (AAPL) has quietly acquired SensoMotoric Instruments, a German computer vision company that makes eye-tracking glasses.
Acquiring SensoMotoric should help Apple bolster its efforts in artificial intelligence and virtual reality -- two areas that the tech giant has become increasingly focused on. At Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June, the company unveiled a slew of ways that it plans to bring the two technologies to Macs, iPads and iPhones. Apple spent a lot of time talking about ARKit, its new augmented reality development platform, that will bring AR capabilities to iOS.
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