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Intel and Razer team up to launch a 3D-sensing camera for game streaming and VR
Gaming peripheral maker Razer Inc. is teaming up with Intel Corp. to create a new type of desktop camera that uses Intel’s RealSense 3D technology to create “significantly enhanced game broadcasting and VR gaming capabilities.”
One of the features of the new camera include automatic background removal, which would be a welcome addition for Twitch streamers, many of whom use bluescreens to overlay video of themselves in front of the game screen without showing the room around them. The camera will also be able to use 3D scanning to recognize motions and gestures similar to the way Xbox Kinect works, which Razer says will allow product designers to “bring real-world objects and bodies into virtual spaces easily.”
“Razer is excited to be working with Intel, using Intel RealSense technology to help pioneer work for game broadcasting, as well as with VR, with support from the growing OSVR movement,” Min-Liang Tan, co-founder and CEO of Razer, said in a statement. “Gamers will, we expect, be able to enhance their broadcasting and VR experience in unprecedented ways.”
“This is a great opportunity to make Intel RealSense technology easily accessible to the gaming and VR communities,” added Dr. Achin Bhowmik, general manager of Perceptual Computing at Intel. “We are proud of the beautiful design of Razer’s Intel RealSense Camera peripheral and we look forward to enabling innovation in the gaming world together.”
Razer says that it plans on releasing more features and applications for the device in the future. While there are few details at the moment on what those applications might be, it seems likely that Razer will find a way to incorporate the camera’s functionality into its recently released Android set-top box, Forge TV.
The company is already adding new functionality to Forge TV thanks to its recent acquisition of the rights to Ouya’s operating system and game library, so adding a Kinect-like device does not seem too far out of the realm of possibility for Razer, even though it is currently marketing the camera as a PC gaming peripheral.
The official website for the device does not list a release date, but it lists the product as “coming soon.”
Screenshot via Razer Inc
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