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Intel's Depth Camera Will Eventually Land in Smartphones

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Shut up about the 3D printing. Spending thousands to make cheap plastic objects is completely ridiculous when you consider the fact that those same thousands could buy you a CNC milling machine. Why limit yourself to plastic when you can work with wood and metals just as easily? The marketers did a bang up job convincing the pseudo techies that 3D printing is the future. What a joke. Milling is superior in every practical way to 3D printing and the technology has be around for decades.
 
not all people have the space for a metal/wood workshop in their apartment or house...noise...maintenance...danger for children/pets and so on and so on, use your head before commenting plz
 


Obviously you don't read anything before posting. Plastic 3D printing was new about 4-5 years ago at least, now you can print metals, wood, etc they have different plugins. Go get some reading glasses and a case of beer to chill your anger defending oldschool milling technology that is way slower than 3D printing! http://www.3dsystems.com/3d-printers/production/spro-125-direct-metal#.UiSUcpK21yI and http://www.wired.com/design/2012/11/3d-printer-wood-filament/
 
not all people have the space for a metal/wood workshop in their apartment or house...noise...maintenance...danger for children/pets and so on and so on, use your head before commenting plz
 


Intel's SSD's did give the industry a much needed kick in the rear. So in a way it did succeed, but in taking the painfully slow improvements in technology and turning it into a performance, and later cost, race, which greatly benefited consumers and Intel, since SSD's could drive the much larger OEM market.
 
Hopefully when it comes to laptops it'll have 5MP or more so finally full HD webcams will be standard. Can you believe that some new laptops still just have 1.3MP webcams?
 
Intel's G2 SSDs were awesome and I still use it today in my laptop. Can handle 100s of Terabytes of writes. It's not that fast but high endurance for MLC.
I do wish Intel would bring out a consumer SSD that would be faster than Sandforce, Marvell or Indilinx.
 
"For instance, eye tracking will be able to monitor children as they read, and determine if they became stuck on a word, how much they actually read, and if they need help with specific words." Really? nah, noboby will use the tech in this

"bring new levels of interactivity to 3D games", This is where you can actually make money.

The article did not mention about spying... The dark and hidden application!
 
Even the new metal 3D printing isn't the answer to everything. The big OEMs are using additive and subtractive manufacturing methods in complementary fashion, so that a part might start out 3D printed, then turned on a lathe for tight runouts or bearing seats, and then milled. However, the article's comment about "scan this with our camera and then print it out" isn't going to fly for long, the copyright/patent system will have its say and render it largely useless.

Still, it's worth noting that I can order parts made of plastic, metal, sandstone, ceramic, gold, silver, all online and 3d printed on demand. The prices are still too high for anything very large, but it is going to prove a great alternative to expensive molding processes.
 

Your post proves you really have no clue whatsoever about cnc milling (or 3d-printing for that matter). You can't even cnc a simple object like a nut and bolt (for that you need a lathe), yet those can be trivially 3d-printed. Complex objects such as, for example, an Eiffel Tower model can not CNCed at all, but again can be 3d-printed in minutes. They are complementary technologies - one is NOT superior to the other - they have very different uses and limitations.

 
Wait a second here, considering the limited screen size in smartphones wouldn't this camera be of little use?
Seriously don't see the viability of this product on small screen devices, now if desktop computers and smart TVs were targeted that would make sense.

"When I read about the camera sensing which words a child gets stuck on, I couldn't help but think how they will also be watching which ads people are looking at."
@bigpink.... think executives at Google and MS might be salivating over this tech and the possibility of getting more ad-revenue...


 
We'll see how Intel's ideas pan out. For text entry, I just don't see a viable alternative to a keyboard...yet. WHEN someone thinks up a better way, it'll catch on like wildfire. Until then, the entire business space is going to want a keyboard of some sort (touchscreen or the real thing). As for gaming and such, I think that this opens up some neat possibilities. The "hardcore" gamer crowd and RTS folks won't go for it, but casual gamers and maybe even fans of stuff like Skyrim could have a lot of fun though.

I'm not sure where the additive vs reductive forming process argument came from. Trying to argue that 3D printers are a useless gimmick is asinine though. I happen to HAVE a 3-axis mill, 36" lathe, various welders, etc in my garage and I can assure you that while they are still extremely useful, a 3D printer opens up new possibilities that are just not practical (or realizable) with traditional reductive processes like milling. I think that they are all complimentary in the end. 3D printing has simplified mold making for my DIY aluminum casting setup BIG TIME. Model the thing, scale it up by +3-6%, print, make a sand mold. I don't own a 3D printer, so I farm the jobs out to fab houses since I cannot yet justify the cost of the equipment currently available, mainly since it is all FDM type stuff which makes relatively weak parts (I am waiting for the patent on the SLS process to expire next year at which point there should be all sorts of more DIY-accessible stuff coming about). 3D prints also allow me to prototype stuff quickly and cheaply; stuff that I build on the lathe or mill, but that would cost too much time and material to try to iterate in metal.
 
We'll see how Intel's ideas pan out. For text entry, I just don't see a viable alternative to a keyboard...yet. WHEN someone thinks up a better way, it'll catch on like wildfire. Until then, the entire business space is going to want a keyboard of some sort (touchscreen or the real thing). As for gaming and such, I think that this opens up some neat possibilities. The "hardcore" gamer crowd and RTS folks won't go for it, but casual gamers and maybe even fans of stuff like Skyrim could have a lot of fun though.

I'm not sure where the additive vs reductive forming process argument came from. Trying to argue that 3D printers are a useless gimmick is asinine though. I happen to HAVE a 3-axis mill, 36" lathe, various welders, etc in my garage and I can assure you that while they are still extremely useful, a 3D printer opens up new possibilities that are just not practical (or realizable) with traditional reductive processes like milling. I think that they are all complimentary in the end. 3D printing has simplified mold making for my DIY aluminum casting setup BIG TIME. Model the thing, scale it up by +3-6%, print, make a sand mold. I don't own a 3D printer, so I farm the jobs out to fab houses since I cannot yet justify the cost of the equipment currently available, mainly since it is all FDM type stuff which makes relatively weak parts (I am waiting for the patent on the SLS process to expire next year at which point there should be all sorts of more DIY-accessible stuff coming about). 3D prints also allow me to prototype stuff quickly and cheaply; stuff that I build on the lathe or mill, but that would cost too much time and material to try to iterate in metal.
 


You mean the same SSDs that have some of the best reliability? And from what I have seen they are still thriving as they keep releasing new models.

What about network interfaces? Intel stamped out 10Gbe and a board with a Intel NIC is better than one with a cheaper Realtek/Broadcom.

Intel influences a lot. USB, TB, PCIe etc.

I think Intel does fine considering they are still the largest semiconductor manufacture.
 
It looks like he is holding some plastic reject that left off a milling machine. I should get one of the off cuts out of the rubbish bin and tell everyone it is a depth sensing camera. I will call my company B.S Tel.

I hate to tell you this. If you want depth sensing, you need at least two cameras and most systems use 3. As usual Intel is over reaching again.
 
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