I was in downtown San Francisco yesterday with Intel developer evangelists Eric Mantion (aka CaptGeek), Bob Duffy and Rick Blacker for an Intel® RealSense™ Technology hands-on hacker lab. About 30 developers experienced software training provided by Eric and Rick covering Facial Landmark identification and tracking as well as Gesture Capture using the software. Those developers then had four hours to code using their own Intel® RealSense™ Developer Kit Camera (3-d peripheral camera) and what they’d learned, to develop and create their own apps and/or ideas. Resulting apps, etc. were then judged on how well they had incorporated modalities and their originality.
The results were amazing. Four short hours of work yielded not just interesting and functional apps. They opened the box of possibilities for everyone in the room. My imagination ran wild – thinking of different features, different combinations and myriad use cases for infinite fields, industries and environments.
The winning app/idea involved tracking facial expressions over time, in real time and won developer Peter Ma a Lenovo Yoga 2.
Until yesterday I just did not know how truly remarkable Intel® RealSense™ technology is – no wonder Intel’s Mooly Eden is over the moon about it. Now I am too!
There is another such hands-on hacker lab in Sacramento in the new year and I will be there. In the meantime there are sessions in December – December 2 in Austin Texas and NYC December 4. Here’s a link to the Intel® Developer Zone Events page: https://software.intel.com/en-us/all-events
You’re so right Eric – Oh the Things We’ll Sense!
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