is a helmet that does not require connection to the PC; using front camera to detect the user’s hands and integrating the digital environment, but without requiring gloves or additional controls
in the 90s, Intel made hand “Intel inside” campaign to let the common user that their technology was inside the computer that he bought (and that, in theory, brought a profit). Today the PC represents more than half of the turnover of technology, but 35 years of the first PC business is stagnant. To make matters worse, Intel train personal mobility was lost and failed to become a player in the field of smartphones, except as a minority supplier of modems. So, as part of the conversion he has been doing in recent years (which included layoffs and effectively exit the competition in chips for smartphones and simple tablets) Intel is trying to bring that concept Intel Inside beyond the PC. Or, seen from another side. Make the PC a very different thing from its original design
Eyeglasses with chips Intel
One of the biggest bets are in virtual reality and, above all, in what Intel calls “merged reality”, something like reality merged. It refers to a unique technology that the company has to mix the real with the digital. So the company presented today at the opening of its annual conference for developers (Intel Developer Forum) virtual reality viewer called Alloy Project, which implements all the technology that the company has been developing in recent times. In addition to including an Intel processor, use RealSense, capture technology and image analysis that developed the company
keys Alloy. All necessary hardware is built into the glasses, ie, does not require be connected to a PC to function; It is able to detect movement in three axes (hence the orientation of the user’s gaze and its displacement); and RealSense uses cameras to alert of a possible collision and, the icing on the cake, integrate the user’s hands in the digital environment. He recognizes the ten fingers, location and movement, and displays them in the digital environment, and allows you to interact with it; other manufacturers using remote controls or special gloves, to achieve something similar. . Hence the fusion of realities
But the company does not aspire to compete directly with HTC or Facebook, but “do what they always did: create a platform for others to design products,” says Reinaldo Affonso, director Intel technology for Latin America.
in fact, Intel Alloy Project published as an open platform in the middle of next year, so that other manufacturers create their virtual reality glasses with their technology. During the presentation, the Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, invited Terry Myerson, head honcho of Windows, the stage, and together announced that next year will be available Windows Holographic, the platform to standardize interaction with virtual reality glasses, and specifications should have computers that use Windows 10 to take advantage of this feature
If it sounds familiar, it’s because Google announced something similar last May, but for Android. Daydream, a platform that defines the minimum hardware to operate the virtual reality in Android.
Internet of Things and image processing
Intel is making a similar bet on the Internet of Things, with chips targeting the same market ARM chips: very small, very modest, very cheap processors, but that will be the heart of the Internet of Things, where what counts is not so much computing power as linking with sensors and efficient processing, two areas which Intel has been working for some time, both with low-power chip, Curie, as his new platform and Joule-presented today at the conference-Aero, a motherboard designed for drones, which includes all sensor technology company. The company showed, in partnership with GE, a lantern street that has cameras and sensors to detect the presence of pedestrians and increase the intensity of light, knowing when a space is available for parking a car, measure the ambient noise, etc. .
is also using RealSense (a technology for cameras that includes depth sensors) to build a video recording system 360 degrees, says Krzanich, being installed in multiple stages in the United States; uses computational power to combine multiple camera shots and create a system that allows the viewer to change the point of view of the camera that is watching a game; grace is that it can make the change in real time, without breaks between takes another, because a system transforms the entire record in a 3D environment.
The company is also making big bets on artificial intelligence, with the acquisition of several companies in the industry in recent times, and computing centers that give life to the cloud (ie , servers that run the online services we use daily). According to Intel, today the average user generates about 500MB of data per day, which will grow to 1.5 GB (ie, triple) 2020; this all add information generated by autonomous cars, multiple devices connected to the Internet of things, and so on. All this information must be processed, and that Intel will deliver its most powerful processors
For Intel, the challenge is to achieve prove that their technology is better than its competitors. Internet of things, all you must compete with multiple manufacturers of ARM chips (historically, more cheap and and lower power than Intel) and with various companies that develop software for autonomous cars and virtual reality. No less that the company has announced here that you will start making ARM chips for third parties. A whole new era.
Virtual reality, in person, by William Tomoyose
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