Intel RealSense Cameras Could Make Twitch Broadcasting Easy!

Today at IDF 2015 it was clear that Intel RealSense cameras are going to be a pretty big deal for Intel and it appears that the developer community is already embracing the new technology. This morning we got to see Intel CEO Brian Krzanich demonstrated how the motion-sensing Intel RealSense-powered cameras could easily do 3D scans to ‘put’ people and objects into games as well as gesture recognition, but seeing a camera understand gestures at this point in time is far from exciting. What really got us fired up is when we saw the demo showing Rocket League with the gamer in front of the camera superimposed in the corner without a green screen and looking great. The software was able to do a really good job at removing the background to isolate just the person!

Thanks to the Intel RealSense camera, gamers will now be able to easily capture video of their face in real-time and steam it on services like Twitch! We were able to see this technology on display this afternoon on a crowded showroom floor and it looked great. It focused on the person directly in front of the Intel RealSense powered camera and that person was instantly in the right corner of the TV. The technology even worked with a person turned to the side (as seen above) and still managed to keep most of the background out of the image without the need of a green screen!

The Intel RealSense cameras are stationary though, so if you move out of the cameras field of view you’ll either be cut off or not displayed. In the future we’ll likely see cameras that are able to lock onto your upper torso and actually follow your movements to ensure that you are always in frame as long as you are in range.

Creative and Razer will both be releasing products with Intel RealSense camera technology in the months ahead. Intel RealSense works on Windows and Android devices as well as Mac OS X, ROS, Linux, Scratch, Unity, XSplit, OBS, Structure SDK, OSVR, Unreal Engine 4 and Google’s Project Tango. Gamers will be happy to see support for XSplit Gamecaster and OBS as those are two streaming solutions for Twitch users. Once Intel RealSense products hit the market and the streaming services support it, we’ll likely see more people becoming Twitch broadcasters! No wonder Intel also announced today that they coughed up enough money to become the lead sponsor for the TwitchCon 2015 in September.