Even Intel in the “race to the virtual reality” will have its viewer – The Republic

INTEL could build its viewer for virtual reality and take a step up to a more augmented reality. The rumor comes from the Wall Street Journal , which emphasizes that the house of Santa Clara has “purchased at least five companies that work on augmented reality technology and invested in others.” As Recon Instruments, manufacturer of smart devices for sports activities, including the Recon Jet, glasses with the screen on which are displayed information, the distance kept pace, but after the stop of Google Glass attention focuses on wearable devices like Oculus Rift, the viewer designed by Facebook, he did declare to Mark Zuckerberg : “One day we will speak only in chat”. With his goggles on his head, maybe. Or those of other industry giants, including Intel is now.

The Oculus Rift is known that it will cost about $ 600 and will be put into circulation in spring. Lives Htc costs about $ 900 and took 15 thousand bookings in ten minutes. News on the release date and on the Sony Playstation Vr price could come from the World Conference of videogames developers in San Francisco. Samsung Gear costs much less, around $ 200, Hololens Microsoft is going to come out of the laboratories and now Intel. Which could also have a trump card: it is the technology of RealSense 3D camera, which the company showed at CES in Las Vegas in January 2016. The set of sensors developed by Intel already allows you to scan objects and environments in three dimensions, providing to the system that mounts them a mapping with a depth of what a normal camera sees as a flat image.

Apple and Google, meanwhile, are still not back. The first bought Metaio, a German company that produces software for combining images from the real world with added graphics digitally, usually for the production of videos, while the Mountain View giant is focusing on augmented reality applications. There was the game “Ingress”, available on the Google Play Store and developed by a subsidiary, the Niantic Labs, and now there is the version of “consumer” of viewers that surpasses the competition in terms of price: it is Google Cardboard the viewer for the cheapest virtual reality that there is (less than ten dollars cardboard, about 30 plastic) in which you have to enter your smartphone, and is already for sale on Google Play.

The most important companies in the world are pouring into this market their investments because the future promises a turnover of 150 billion dollars. According to the ‘ Augmented / Virtual Reality Report 2015 drafted by Digi-Capital, so will amount to the turnover in 2020. A tremendous growth, whereas the forecast for 2016 does not exceed 10 billion. However Achin Bhowmik, who oversees RealSense as vice president and general manager of the group, declined to comment on the WSJ indiscretions.

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