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Re: Intel RealSense Stereo Depth Cameras

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Post by lnsru »

andoma wrote: post #13
sand500 wrote: post #2

Is this going to finally replace all the Xbox Kinects everyone uses?

The final version of the Kinect, called "Azure Kinect" was based around the ADSD3100 time-of-flight sensor from Analog Devices. The Kinect has since been abandoned by Microsoft. However, Analog offers a match-box sized module ADTF3175 integrating the ADSD3100-sensor, optics and VCSEL (940nm laser illuminator) with MIPI 4-lanes output. A devkit [1] also exist and is available from mouser, digikey, et al. [1] https://w…

I got the dev kit and looking for someone to team up for commercialization of the potential of one megapixel time of flight camera. There will be probably nothing better for a long time due to complex pixel analog circuitry design. It’s very interesting sensor at the moment.

Re: Intel RealSense Stereo Depth Cameras

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Post by ein0p »

Uehreka wrote: post #6

Back in 2021 I needed some stereo cameras for an AR experience I was building for the 2020 World’s Fair Expo (yes, it took place in 2021 but was called 2020). We looked into RealSense, and right around when we did there was some news that Intel had either laid off the RealSense team or stopped manufacturing new cameras. Whatever it was, it made us look elsewhere, as it does not seem like Intel is serious about develo…

At that price why not just get a full blown LIDAR from Unitree? I guess that wasn't available in 2020, but nowadays, why not?

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MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #11
Uehreka wrote: post #6

Back in 2021 I needed some stereo cameras for an AR experience I was building for the 2020 World’s Fair Expo (yes, it took place in 2021 but was called 2020). We looked into RealSense, and right around when we did there was some news that Intel had either laid off the RealSense team or stopped manufacturing new cameras. Whatever it was, it made us look elsewhere, as it does not seem like Intel is serious about develo…

> it made us look elsewhere, as it does not seem like Intel is serious about developing/maintaining this product line Everyone has to find out eventually, that unless „product line“ is high-margin CPUs, Intel will cancel it sooner or later. I hope they aren’t stupid enough to do that with their GPUs (again).

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Re: Intel RealSense Stereo Depth Cameras

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Post by baq »

MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #11
Uehreka wrote: post #6

Back in 2021 I needed some stereo cameras for an AR experience I was building for the 2020 World’s Fair Expo (yes, it took place in 2021 but was called 2020). We looked into RealSense, and right around when we did there was some news that Intel had either laid off the RealSense team or stopped manufacturing new cameras. Whatever it was, it made us look elsewhere, as it does not seem like Intel is serious about develo…

> it made us look elsewhere, as it does not seem like Intel is serious about developing/maintaining this product line Everyone has to find out eventually, that unless „product line“ is high-margin CPUs, Intel will cancel it sooner or later. I hope they aren’t stupid enough to do that with their GPUs (again).

Discrete GPUs on add-in cards are the high margin market in computer hardware currently and with nvidia universally hated there's a lot of opportunity in the market. The problem is, as usual, execution.

Re: Intel RealSense Stereo Depth Cameras

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Post by FirmwareBurner »

baq wrote: post #24
MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it made us look elsewhere, as it does not seem like Intel is serious about developing/maintaining this product line Everyone has to find out eventually, that unless „product line“ is high-margin CPUs, Intel will cancel it sooner or later. I hope they aren’t stupid enough to do that with their GPUs (again).

Discrete GPUs on add-in cards are the high margin market in computer hardware currently and with nvidia universally hated there's a lot of opportunity in the market. The problem is, as usual, execution.

>Discrete GPUs on add-in cards are the high margin market in computer hardware currently

For AMD and Nvidia yeah, but Intel is currently bleeding money on their GPUs since they're made on the expensive TSMC nodes instead in their own fabs, and they price them very low to gain market share as sales aren't stellar due to mid performance.

The only reason they haven't cancelled it already is they're playing the long game.

The issue is if the AI bubble bursts by the time they release anything competitive causing margins to tank again.

Re: Intel RealSense Stereo Depth Cameras

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Post by dcanelhas »

ofrzeta wrote: post #10
momoschili wrote: post #3

These have been around since at least 2016 and haven't really made any real waves... it's another technology Intel held out to dry. Stereo is a reliable tech that is relatively simple to implement but for the most part it seems to be have been left behind by other methods that are better suited for compact form factors in consumer like time of flight, or even LIDAR. Intel itself tried its hand at LIDAR, but shuttered…

> Stereo is a reliable tech that is relatively simple to implement why are the cameras so expensive then? I guess their optics aren't particularly high-grade either.

Going to assume you're genuinely interested here:

Intel's RealSense cameras typically also have an active IR illumination component that projects texture onto otherwise featureless surfaces where stereo would not give any measurements.

There is also an onboard vision processor that computes the depth information and sends that to your host system. Compare this with Stereolabs zed cameras that require you to have a separate GPU, supporting CUDA, to compute the depth image stream. Oh, and there is also an inertial measurement unit thrown in, for high frequency inter-frame motion estimation. Useful for things like visual odometey, 3D mapping, etc.

Re: Intel RealSense Stereo Depth Cameras

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Post by perching_aix »

whilenot-dev wrote: post #8
krasin wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

RealSense is a golden standard in Robotics research. ALOHA, which was one of the first swallows of the new AI+Robotics wave, was enabled by RealSense: https://aloha-2.github.io/

I'm confused, didn't Intel wind down the RealSense business 2021?[0] [0]: https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/intel-says-i...

Wow, I could have sworn that was a fake domain banking on r and n being homoglyphs when part of a repetition, but no, CRN is a real publication.
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