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More dev kits to unleash RealSense technology, including a new RealSense camera 400

By Vijay Anand - on 17 Aug 2016, 6:29pm

More dev kits to unleash RealSense technology, including a new RealSense camera 400

In the last two years, we’ve showcased what Intel’s RealSense technology can do for everyday scenarios and personalize computing like never before. With amazing outcomes and driving the robotics and drones scene, Intel has today unleashed more developer kits for creating even more amazing solutions.

Do these bots look familiar to you? Yup, they all use RealSense technology.

Primarily, the new developer kits are aimed at filling voids in the existing RealSense hardware line-up and improve fidelity.
 

Intel RealSense ZR300 Development Kit

This development kit is suitable for long range use and has motion sensing capabilities. It’s slated to be available by the end of the year.
 

Intel Euclid Developer Kit

What if someone needed a neat looking turnkey solution that integrated sense, compute and communication capabilities for quick deployment? That’s exactly what the Intel Euclid developer kit brings to the table by combining the RealSense ZR300 camera with an Intel Atom processor for edge compute and common connectivity options.

The core components of the Intel Euclid development kit.

And here it is in the flesh.


Intel RealSense Camera 400 series

The next generation RealSense camera is thinner, lighter and more importantly can sense further distances and is far more accurate than current generation cameras. It can capture more than double the number of depth point (3D points) per second and thus that quantifies its accuracy (for comparisons, the best current generation RealSense cameras can sense 18 million points per second). Primarily, the on-board image processor on the RealSense 400 has been upgraded and that's what greatly improved the capabilities of this upcoming module. Other components have largely remained similar.

A close-up of the upcoming RealSense 400 camera.

We got a sneak peek at the outcome of using the new RealSense 400 camera and it was shared that the resultant depth map from the color image photo is quite a bit more accurate than what current RealSense cameras can achieve, thus proving that it is both more accurate and can sense further distances.

It is possible that Intel’s Project Alloy head-mounted-display will utilize this RealSense 400 camera when it’s closer to actual implementation, but at the point of writing, the sample unit that’s on show still uses a ZR300 model to enabled merged reality.

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