Intel RealSense on track to change the way we talk to computers

Expect to see more apps straight out of sci-fi movies as Intel RealSense technology gets incorporated into more computing devices. 

An Intel representative demonstrates gesture recognition with RealSense at the 2014 Intel Solutions Summit in Singapore this April.

The technology supports advanced hand and finger tracking - '10-finger gestures' - to allow users to control devices more precisely, and natural language voice recognition plus accurate facial recognition to enable new ways of interaction. 

One such application is more secure facial recognition. While conventional 2D cameras can recognise faces, they do not capture depth, leading to photos being mistaken for the physical person. A 3D RealSense camera would immediately recognise a photograph as one. 

The Intel RealSense 3D camera is smaller than a teaspoon.

Other applications could be augmented reality and gaming, both of which can can make use of RealSense's 3D object tracking and gesture recognition to allow the user to become more immersed in the environment.

Laura Crone, VP, PC Client Group, and GM, Channel, Central Marketing and Operations, Intel, showed media at the Intel Solutions Summit in Singapore in April a sample of a RealSense camera (above), calling it the world's smallest 3D and 2D camera. "It's small enough to integrate into the bezel of a device," she said. "You can expect to see systems by end-year."

RealSense will be next on show at Computex in Taipei this June.

Source: Intel Facebook page.