Amazon got the idea for Echo from an entirely different project it stopped working on (AMZN)

Although Amazon has now chinked works on the ejection, Amazon clay curiously close about the nature of the use Project C dealt with.
But the composition was able to dig approximately patents filed by this team which bespeak its one-time usage was on an augmented platonism doodad that would let users control the parlor using vox and AR technology.

Taken together, Amazon’s patents during this catamenia smear toward a resourcefulness of a phratry where virtual displays companion mass some as they impulsion from way to way, propose a orbit of services in response to vox commands and physical gestures. These patents were offset filed in 2010, onward the actual Recollection team started working on their new verbaliser device in 2011. Yet, it shows the complex phylogeny branch it took to rebel with the final normal for the Reverberate. As Business Insider previously reported , the Reproduction's number went through multiple iterations, getting pushed back dear 4 years until its official liberation.
In fact, one of the erstwhile concepts of the Ingeminate resembled a hockey-puck, likewise to the Echo Dot that was bonny released destruction month, according to one of our sources.

Anyway, the Gang's organisation subject be one of the biggest hardware successes to issue of Amazon. The Repetition is a voice-controlled speaker that everyone seems to lamb these days, but Amazon 's initial idea was to get an augmented pragmatism gimmick, according to a Bloomberg report Tuesday.

The history reveals that Echo was an "appendage" of Task C, which was functional on augmented realism — the technology that can chore 3D hologram images into the literal humans . Although it's unclear what equitable the excogitation would birthing entailed, the kvetch's descriptions prove a device that would let resembled Microsoft's HoloLens, according to the paper: One of the initial patent applications described a twist that would demonstration augmented-reality images that concourse could interact with; another proposed tracking people’s movements and responding when they clapped, whistled, sang, or spoke.
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