Kicking off the CES 2016 keynote, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich rode out in what looks like Segway with no handle bars. Krzanich says it's his "self-balancing vehicle." This would be Intel's third year on the CES keynote stage.
"We believe we are entering a new era of consumer technology," he said. "Consumers are choosing experiences over products."
Technologies must enable new experiences to be successful in the future, and they are shaped by three trends. First, the world is becoming smart and connected.
Everything today is defined by technology, but technology is not our focus, Krzanich said. In a demo, he showed that drones can be used to redefine the firework experience, replacing smoke and danger with a show that's filled with creativity and potential, all powered by drones.
The most important thing is that the technologies that Intel will show will be delivered by its partners "in the next few months." This will be "the year of amazing experiences," Krzanich said.
Sports and gaming
Gaming used to be an individual event, but e-sports is radically transforming the category into an immersive, social experience with spectators. According to Krzanich, it's like a sport, and you can feel it, see it, and experience it, and Intel wants to offer a sensory experience, to deliver more performance and more sensation than before.
Intel brought up an all-female team that competes in a Rainbow Six tournament. The demo highlighted technologies like Windows 10, Intel's sixth generation Skylake processor and enhanced graphics power. Intel showed that the Intel RealSense 3D camera will remove her background in an augmented reality setting, so the player can live broadcast the game play with no lag or delay.
Personalized gaming
Intel wants to replace avatars with ultra-personal gaming. In an immersive gaming experience, Intel wants to put you inside the game. Using the RealSense 3D scanner, you can scan yourself, capture your image and insert yourself in the game.
In a demo highlighting Fallout 4, Intel shows that you can scan yourself into the game, rather than see a generic game character.
Action sports
"This is engaging," Krzanich said. "This is e-sports. We want to extend this to all sports."
The vision is to free the spectator to see any angle on the playing field. This vision is now a reality, according to Krzanich.
Partner Replay Technologies is now using this technology to allow you to watch on broadcast, in the stadium or on the PC. You'll be able to view the game from any angle you want, and you'll become the director.
Real-time sports
Utilizing Intel's Curie and its sensor hub, Intel will be able to give athletes real-time feedback as they perform and train. Curie is sampling today, and Intel says will ship this quarter in volume at less than $10 (£6, AU$14).
With BMX bikes, Intel is embedding the Curie chips in the bike to understand what the bikes are doing as riders perform tricks and stunts.
"As the athletes move across the stage, we're able to virtualize the movements and classify the tricks in real-time," Intel said. Curie will provide real-time data and analysis for training and enhancing performances. Audience members will gain insight into the sports and engage viewers.
Intel believes that Curie will change every sport in a big way.
In a partnership with ESPN and the X-Games, Intel will be debuting Curie at the X-Game this year. This will allow television viewers to better understand the movements that the athletes move, ESPN said at the keynote.
Curie will be used to show rotations, G-force and other stats at the Aspen Winter X-Games next month. Another partner will be Red Bull Media House.
Drones
Intel is showing an intelligent consumer drone at CES. "It's ready to fly, with best-in-class features," Krzanich said.
The controller even has a display so you can see what the drone sees in real-time. But what makes this drone unique is the Intel processor and RealSense camera, giving the drone an advance collision-avoidance system that can understand its environment.
In a demo, Intel showed the drone following a biker, navigating between trees in a forest. The drone switches to lead mode, and then the drone can react to real-time obstacles, such as a collapsed tree.
"Any other commercial drone out there would have crashed into the tree," Krzanich said.
Health and wellness
Intel shows intelligent wearables that can help motivate, coach and train athletes. Using voice control, Intel showed that athletes can use voice control to ask for information like pace and other information.
With Oakley's Radar Pace, feedback is given in real-time, so the automated coaching can adapt to your needs to push you harder. The digital coach examines the data and responds to the data in real-time, just like a real coach. Radar Pace will launch later this year.
Another partner is New Balance, which will launch Digital Sport to help athletes improve their training through wearable experiences.
New Balance will also launch a new smartwatch with Intel in the holiday season this year.
Intel is partnering with DAQRI to launch a smart helmet that's powered by a Core M7 processor. The helmet will use augmented reality for business applications, helping field workers repair infrastructure and more. It will even help the worker order replacement parts.
The smart helmet is now shipping.
Creative experiences
Intel is working with composer AR Rahman of Slumdog Millionaire fame to use Intel Curie in creating music. With a movement, tap, flick or wave of an arm, Rahman is generating music, but there is no instruments. Rahman wears arm bands with Curie, which senses gestures, and Curie converts these movements into music, Rahman explained.
It's like playing air guitar!
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