The iPhone 6 on release date will show off a much-improved map and navigating applications made possible by the recent acquisition of the Kinect-like technology from PrimeSense.

Initially, the purchase was linked to Apple's gaming plans for its iOS devices like the iPhones and iPads or cool new features for the rumoured Apple TV. Tech blogger Jessica Lessin thinks otherwise.

The grand plan for the PrimeSense buy, involves enhancements for Apple's in-house map application. "PrimeSense's technology is much more strategic for mapping, according to one person familiar with the company," Lessin reported.

The 3D-sensing technology that Apple bought with PrimeSense, a firm from Israel that made its mark to the tech world as provider of Kinect controller for the Xbox 360, would be useful for the tech giant to design indoor and outdoor mapping capabilities for its upcoming iOS devices, chief among them is the iPhone 6.

Soon enough, phones "phones will pull up scans of real spaces we want to visit or may be approaching," Lessin wrote on her blog, adding that the 2D maps that mobile device owners are using will soon exit from the scene.

Indoor mapping for the iPhone 6 is highly likely thanks to Apple's recent annexing of WiFiSLAM, which Lessin said specialises in GPS-guided 3D-mapping of sprawling establishments like shopping malls.

The plan makes sense, according to CNET, as Apple has a score to settle with Google. Back in late 2012, the tech giant surprisingly ditched Google Maps for is iPhone 5 launch. The move proved a huge setback as Apple's alternative Map application came out erratic, which disappointed many iPhone users.

In the immediate aftermath, Apple was forced to re-offer Google Map as alternative then axed senior executives, including long-time Apple employee Scott Forstall for the debacle.

Now, the tech titan is raring to prove that it can do a lot better with some outside help.

But gesture control coming from PrimeSense cannot be entirely written off as Apple's way of intruding further into the gaming industry. If anything, what 3D sensor will do is simply upgrade the company's already significant gaming presence, Lessin wrote.

She pointed to the millions of iPhones and iPads in circulation that currently are indispensable gaming tools for casual gamers. But with gesture or motion, gaming the Apple way is jumping into another level.

That should happen immediately after the rumoured iPhone 6 release date, which according to analysts falls on the second half of 2014 or June in the same year as the earliest possible ETA.