Intel's Project Alloy: the evolution of VR
At the Intel Development Forum 2016, Intel announced its new Project Alloy, a VR headset that I believe represents the next step in the evolution of VR. A couple of weeks ago, Intel engineer Dmitri Diakopoulos tweeted an image of a modified HTC Vive headset that had a "unicorn" attachment to it. The tweet was later deleted but not before the press picked up on it. Today, Intel revealed what it was really about. Project Alloy is a VR headset that is totally wireless, has full positional tracking, and doesn't require any external sensors. Moreover, it can track your hands and fingers, allowing you to interact with VR objects as you would with the real-world. Intel calls it "merged reality," and it's made possible by two sets of Intel's RealSense depth-sensing cameras. You can see from the press release that the prototype Project Alloy headset has two sets of vertically-oriented realsense cameras, just like the headset tweeted by ...