PiPort's Double Delight: Intel's Perceptual Computing Challenge Finalists.

Perceptual computing is reshaping the way we interact with our devices, making it more natural, intuitive and immersible. Devices will be able to perceive our actions through new capabilities including hand gestures, finger articulation, speech recognition, face tracking, augmented reality experiences, and more. Perceptual Computing is fundamentally changing human–computer interaction.

Intel® recently introduced the The Intel® Perceptual Computing Challenge encouraging developers to use the Perceptual Computing SDK to create innovative applications. The Intel Perceptual Computing SDK allows developers to add perceptual computing usages to applications for 2nd 3rd and 4th generation Intel® Core™ processor-based Ultrabook™ devices, laptops, and desktop systems. The current SDK supports close range (~6” to 36”) perceptual computing usage modes including speech recognition, face analysis and tracking, hand, finger and gesture tracking, and 2D/ 3D object tracking. Intel has the resources and R+D support. They are looking for the most innovative and unique uses of Perceptual Computing. A grand-prize of $100,000 and thousands of dollars more in prizes are announced. Wasting no time, PiPort submitted two of its innovative ideas, which were reviewed in PiPort's previous blog postings and also available at following links: www.teleportek.com/demo and http://thinair.piport.net/demo.

Having little doubt that PiPort's ThinAir™ and Teleporter Pi™ technologies have the potential to revolutionize the perceptual computing industry, Intel's decision to select both of these projects as contest finalists came as no surprise. Nevertheless, the double draw from the first phase of the Intel Challenge was indeed very gratifying. Pleased with the decision, PiPort feels very confident of its knowledge base, skills, and the capabilities to turn these innovations into the game changers of the rapidly evolving multi-billion dollar perceptual computing industry. 

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