Best of IDF15: Intel RealSense to Google’s Project Tango

Intel’s new RealSense technology has become one of the drivers of innovation in the tech giant.

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The Relay robotic butler came on stage to handover over a bottle of soft drink to the CEO. (Source: Nandagopal Rajan)

Intel’s new RealSense technology seems to be in every sense becoming one of the drivers of innovation in the tech giant. While during CES in January CEO Brian Krzanich showcased drones that could make their way through a forest using the technology, at the IDF15 here he highlighted how new updates in technology are putting it at the core of innovation.

For instance, the Relay robotic butler came on stage to handover over a bottle of soft drink to the CEO. “Robots have always been able to see, but RealSense is now giving them a 3D map of the world to navigate with,” he said. While applications of this technology will only grow, there was a good sense of it at show during IDF.

The longest queues were at the stalls where the technology was being plugged to 3D printers to create three-dimensional selfies of participants. But the technology is also going to make its way into everything from gaming rigs to smartphones in the coming months.

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In fact, Krzanich did show a glimpse of the new Google Project Tango phone which will be powered by Intel’s RealSense technology. The phone could 3D map a room in under a minute, underlining the kind of uses new age smartphones will have. The Intel RealSense SDK featuring Google’s Project Tango, which can now handle indoor navigation and area learning, virtual reality and 3-D scanning, will be released to select Android developers by the end of this year.

Google’s Project Tango made an appearance at IDF as well. (Source: Nandagopal Rajan)

Here are the other highlights of IDF 2015

Intel RealSense technology is now available on a wide-range of platforms with Intel adding Mac OS X, ROS, Linux, Scratch, Unity, XSplit, OBS, Structure SDK, OSVR, Unreal Engine 4 and Google’s Project Tango to the existing Windows and Android platforms.

(Source: Nandagopal Rajan)

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Disclaimer: The journalist is attending the IDF conference in San Francisco on the invitation of Intel Corporation

Nandagopal Rajan

Nandagopal Rajan writes on technology, gadgets and everything related. He has worked with the India Today Group and Hindustan Times. He is an alumnus of Calicut University and Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal. ... Read More

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