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Intel Unveils Project Alloy 'Merged Reality' Wireless Headset (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: Intel CEO Bryan Krzanich took to the stage at the Moscone Center in San Francisco today to kick off this year's Intel Developers Forum. Kyrzanich unveiled a number of new projects and products including a product code-named "Project Alloy." The device is an un-tethered, merged reality Head Mounted Device (HMD) that combines compute, graphics, multiple RealSense modules, various sensors, and batteries into a self-contained headset that offers a full six degrees of freedom. Unlike the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, Project Alloy does not need to be wired to a PC or other device and it does not require externally mounted sensors to define a virtual space. Instead, it uses RealSense cameras to map the actual physical world you're in while wearing the HMD. The RealSense cameras also allow the device to bring real-world objects into the virtual world, or vice versa. The cameras and sensors used in Project Alloy offer full depth sensing, so obstacles can be mapped, and people and objects within camera range -- like your hand, for example -- can be brought into the virtual world and accurately tracked. During a live, on-stage demo performed by Intel's Craig Raymond, Craig's hand was tracked and all five digits, complete with accurate bones and joint locations, were brought into the the VR/AR experience. Project Alloy will be supported by Microsoft's Windows Holographics Shell framework.
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Way to drop the ball, AMD.
A study conducted on Slashdot indicates that the lack of punctuation makes it more difficult to understand what a headline means
lucm, indeed.
This device does realworld object mapping and tracking already. It's just a few tweaks away from mapping a stereographic camera feed over each eye (digitally corrected for angle) with AR elements superimpsed. That's basically what the HUD in modt FPS games have these days. Having vector computation for something like a handgun's pointed direction for assisted targeting is getting much closer to reality.
I dont see ordinary people using these, but i could see physicians using it with backscatter and terrahertz imaging sources, and i can see the military using it.
Microsoft's Windows 10 record shows they can't be trusted to protect our privacy. Why is Intel so intent on forcing Microsoft's shit down our throats?
When I tried ot VR and found myself clumsily going over the cords I knew I had to wait for something like this. Also inserting reality should ne done wilth cameras and not via clear lenses like Google Glass. Maybe it is clearer in the article, but the summary does not make clear which this implements. Also, I don't know how Microsoft implements HoloLens.
Sorry for sounding like boasting about my ignorance and laziness, but it might be a waste of time to look futher until it really matters. After all, isn't that the reason Slashdotters are in the habit of not reading the articles? But I digress.
Getting rid of the room mounted sensors is also a must. A viable system must pick up cues from the preexisting environment and let me maneuver anywhere there is space. Also, the system should be able to adjust to my vision prescription. It should be able to not only take the place of my glasses but ensure the best possible clarity.
But don't you just love ot VR? So much better than just plain ordinary VR!
Wait... I am on my phone and the limited space tricked me into mistaking an earlier post of mine for the summary, which apparently my brain skimmed without telling me. Physician, heal thyself!
The Demo looks like it's behind state-of the art tech quite a bit. Their hand-tracking was abysmal (the years-old LeapMotion seems way more precise and quick), the latency was noticeable even under the presumably perfect conditions, HoloLens does the 3D tracking better it seems, and any Android phone can do better graphics with a cheap VR viewer.
It might be impressive that this unit is all self-contained, but this really doesn't seem state-of-the-art at all!
Wait... I am on my phone and its limited space and the Slashdot mobile site conspired to lead me to believe that an earlier post of mine was the summary, which apparently my brain skimmed without telling me.
Curse you, Slashdot, and your wily ways! you told me I had to wait to post again and between you and my browser ate my original message, so I typed it again, and you actually posted the first version.
Where can I buy this product?
I hope it's not like other 'products' that are only speculative future imaginary development projects. I hope that it is real; it is something that has been honed to perfection and eagerly waiting for my purchasing dollars to lift me to the heights of virtual bliss.
Yes, I hope, but...
...omphaloskepsis often...
Wake me up when there is an HMD available better than Rift or Vive.
Current reality 980ti burning 250 watts can barely run VR at a cringe worthy PPD. Self contained = watered down experience from decades past I have no interest in wasting my time with.
It's already called Augmented Reality. We don't need a new name for it.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
"The RealSense cameras also allow the device to bring real-world objects into the virtual world, or vice versa."
I don't get how that would work. Is it attached to a 3d printer?
Barbra Streisand's lawyer called, he said you can't steal her effect
lucm, indeed.
Hiw am I stealing her effect when the whole point of my pists is puurely an exercise in whimsy. Except maybe a little bit about Slashdot's interface being rotten. About that, I was serious. And despite the composing flaws of the post I was referring to, I think I made a few good points and it wouldn't hurt to read it.
3 stories from intel on front page? $$$ ?
anything that gets us one step closer to Dennou Coil is a big win in my book
the more companies working on AR, the better