Report: Apple discretely acquired mixed-reality startup Spektral for $30M

According to a report from Fortune, Apple discretely acquired Danish visual effects startup Spektral in December 2017. Spektral was once named CloudCutout and focused on a cloud-based solution to masking a subject from the background of an photograph. Now, Spektral specializes in masking technology that uses machine learning to separate a subject in an image from the background in real-time on mobile devices. "Combining deep neural networks and spectral graph theory with the computing power of m...