While Intel is technically a competitor of Google in this particular market – their own human-computer interactive Intel RealSense has been around since 2015 – the corporation announced today at their Intel Developer Conference that they have teamed up with Google to create a technical blueprint for a smartphone complete with 3D cam capabilities. “Imagine how sports will change when it is digitized”, says Krzanich.
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Krzanich unveiled a number of updates to Intel RealSense technology that will bring depth sensing to more devices and applications.
New processors don’t really generate the excitement they once did, but processors based on Intel’s new Skylake architecture are still going to ship in tens of millions of computers before the end of the year. As well as Project Tango, developers will be able to use RealSense with Windows, Android, Mac OS X, and game engines Unity and Unreal amongst others.
He showed off RealSense in a smartphone prototype for developers, a project that Intel and Google collaborated on dubbed “Project Tango”, which allows users to take virtual reality-based photos of room models on their phone; as well as Relay, a robot developed by Savioke that uses visual RealSense for the hospitality space to relay items from staff to guests in hotels.
Most of technologies, as Krzanich reiterated, were being demoed real time or already had limited rollouts in some markets. The new class of memory technology will also power a new line of Intel DIMMs designed for Intel’s next-generation data center platforms. The products will be available in the fourth-quarter of this year.
RealSense will be available on a wide-range of platforms, opening up more opportunities for developers to create new depth-sensing hardware and software.
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Intel’s Enhanced Privacy Identification (EPID) technology will be implemented by leading IoT sensor and microcontroller vendors including Atmel and Microchip to help secure an increasingly smart and connected world.
