"In any place, if any equipment needs eyes, it needs to perceive the world. To understand the people, things and environment around us, it has something to do with our department, which is the main thing that our department does." Tang Zhenyu explained.
Tang Zhenyu is the China Director of Intel Corporation's Perceptual Computing Division. He is responsible for RealSense's technology in China, including VR, AR and MR (merged reality), robots, drones, and smart homes. Intel's perceptual computing is RealSense, and it can be understood to add eye to any device. "Let all the devices that are used to darkness get used to the light."
Between AR, VR, and MR, Tang Zhenyu thinks that what AR does now can be simply understood as casting some digital graphics into the real world after scanning; when you see the real output, your virtual things are superimposed. Above, you may feel an enhancement.
"But we don't think these have solved what people really need now."
What people really need is a fusion, and you want the real virtuality to be merged. “This is what our RealSense can offer, or what we can do.†Project Alloy is an all-in-one machine. When you look at it, you don't know which one is real and which one is virtual.
What is the meaning of RealSense RealSense technology?"You and I have a mobile phone in your hand, or your computer, or your mobile phone has a camera. This camera is a 2D camera. After a photo is taken, it will be Turning into a 2D picture is actually throwing away the 3D information and turning it into a two-dimensional one. You are a flat image, he has no concept of size, no concept of distance, no concept of length and length. The camera depth camera actually restores the third dimension to you. The Z (XYZ triaxial) of the depth information is returned to you in the third dimension of Z. I can reproduce the three-dimensional world."
So Project Alloy, which is related to VR, has acquired 6 DOF tracking capabilities through real-world technology. "The real world is a one-to-one coordinate relationship with the virtual world. I am walking in the real world, moving, and in the virtual world. This gives one of the most critical technologies of VR, because of this. You can really map your real world and virtual world."
Through real-world technology, Alloy can also achieve tracking of hand manipulation. Let the real and virtual things blend together seamlessly, and you can't tell the difference between the virtual and the virtual – this is the vision of Intel Project Alloy.
Not only VR/AR equipment, but also real-world technology can be applied to PC, tablet, mobile phone, robot, drone and 3D automatic obstacle avoidance. Real-world technology is a basic necessary technology.
After the announcement of the Project Alloy program in the US market, Intel first responded to questions about Alloy in the Chinese market. Prior to this, Intel did not publicly explain VR, AR, MR technology, and Alloy helmets in public in the Chinese market.
Q: Intel has acquired a company called Movidius some time ago. What combination of visual processor and Intel's sensing technology will be in the future?
A: Intel intends to acquire the company Movidius. It has not completely ended in legal affairs. We are also interested in acquiring them. If all goes well, he will be with our department, because we have a very clear concept from the perspective of our CEO, or from the perspective of the entire Intel layout, we provide visual, Sensor, 3D camera. Movidius can help us fill in the special processor features of computer vision. It is a chip specifically for computer vision, so it is a very good fusion with us.
On some portable devices, mobile devices, Movidius will also be a very good match with us. If the merger is successful, from the low-power, and professional-grade computer vision chip, the layout of our entire industry is very good.
Q: The reference design of Alloy, is there any cooperation between manufacturers that can launch real consumer-grade terminal products?
A: There are some manufacturers working together. But because Intel is used to waiting for our partners to announce their products, we will announce. We provide some technology, this is also included in IDF, our CEO announced cooperation with Microsoft - Microsoft's next-generation operating system, cooperation on the VR operating system.
Q: Will the work of the camera be affected when the light is complicated? Intel RealSense's current camera tracking technology has solved similar problems in terms of light accuracy, gesture interaction and delay technology. Is there any breakthrough?
A: RealSense is like human vision. He mainly solves this problem in a visual way. The human vision is actually the same. Man is already the most ideal creature created by God. Our eyes, adaptability is very strong, but suddenly I will blindly hit a strong light, so the vision must have the effect of light, this is inevitable. If I use a visual solution, it must have a limit and conditions.
Our next generation of products will solve this problem better, which is the camera of the Intel RealSense 400. It can solve most problems in the case of a lot of light, but you can find a common case, a strange configuration, I think there will be, because you have to measure under the limit, it will definitely exceed This limit.
Q: We learned about Magic Leap in Silicon Valley. He told us all of China's VR and AR investments in Silicon Valley. We found that the bubble in this industry in the United States has to be drained. So why is Intel still spending so much energy on VR, AR, and MR? Magic Leap has been doing this for a long time now, his products have not been made yet, when will our product really land?
A: Magic Leap is an independent company, not a subsidiary of Intel or our company, so we have no way to comment on his products. As you said, he may need some time to launch his products. We are also paying attention to this. problem.
Why Intel is still doing VR, AR, and even the concept of MR in this direction, because we think it is a trend. Just like the era of PC PCs, no one believes that a PC is needed. At that time, many organizations reported that there would be no more than one hundred and one thousand people in the world who need a PC. But now it's hundreds of millions, and millions of PCs are running around the world because people need a computing device to accompany you. Later, the mobile phone is also the same, we call perceived compuTIng, ubiquitous computing. Your computing power should be omnipresent. Just like the current movie, we never thought about where the electricity came from, the lights were bright, the screen was bright, and there was electricity. If we think that all places have computing power, including your floor, etc., will have computing power, it will help you deal with some things.
Why Intel invests here, because this is a common demand for people, you can use it to better integrate with this real world and the virtual world. But the key question now is that the technology has not reached that point. For example, the six-degree-of-freedom problem cannot be solved perfectly. But we believe that through the basic technology, or the breakthrough of fundamental technology, will bring a huge outbreak. We hope to lay out well before the outbreak.
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