Intel's road to perceptual computing will be paved with its own silicon: its microprocessors, graphics chips, and a new line of dedicated silicon for perceptual computing that Intel will create.
Mooly Eden, the president of Intel Israel and its 8,000 employees, relaxes by also directly managing the perceptual computing business at Intel. There, Eden imagines a future where PCs communicate with users in the same way that two friends chat in a cafe: with sight, voice, and gestures all contributing to the conversation.
On Wednesday, Eden demonstrated how the technology worked: Cameras sensed the position of fingers, and spun virtual lightning between them. A user's hands could be used to tickle a virtual child. And in another demo, Eden played the game Portal 2 by waving his hands and orally commanding the computer to drop a Companion Cube. Finally, Eden demonstrated a new version of the Nuance virtual assistant, co-developed by Intel and Nuance and running on top of Intel's Atom and Core silicon.
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