Intel RealSense to transform authentication, gaming, 3D modelling

We won't need passwords as we traditionally think of them if we become our passwords, said Leighton Philips, Director, Product Marketing and Pricing, Asia Pacific and Japan, Intel at a Computex Taipei update in Singapore recently.

Source: Intel.

The technology is imminent with the impending launch of the Intel RealSense 3D camera, Phillips said. The key is facial recognition with a camera that has depth perception, he explained.

While current cameras can recognise faces, they cannot distinguish between a photograph of that face and the face itself, unlike cameras with depth perception. RealSense will also allow different backgrounds to be swopped in behind a video-conferencing image, he said.

There will be three Realsense camera versions, the Intel RealSense F200 front camera for displays and laptops, which works in real time; the R200 rear camera for tablets, 2 in 1s and smartphones, which also works in real-time; and the R100 Snapshot rear camera, for entry level mobile devices and which only performs post-processing, creating pictures with bokeh for example.

With a front camera, you can put yourself into games. With the rear camera you can build 3D models," said Phillips.

At Computex Taipei, a major industry event held in Taiwan in early June every year, Intel revealed that a 2014 software development kit for RealSense would be available to developers in Q3. The company will organise the US$1 million Intel RealSense App Challenge 2014, with the ideation phase to begin the same quarter.
   A picture of a RealSense camera against a teaspoon can be seen in a May blog post here.