ISSUE 2 | WINTER 2013

Perceptual Computing Transforms the Human-Computer Interaction

Wind River and Revolutionize Embedded Computing

Multi-touch Technology Deepens Gaming Experiences on the Battlefield and Beyond

Augmented Reality is Here and Now On Tablets and ™ Devices Letter from the editor

riven by the ferocious In this second issue of Intel® the current realities of security and our pace of innovation Adrenaline we get up- mobile lifestyles. in both hardware close and personal with touch. We I hope you find the stories as and software explore how the mobile lifestyle and interesting to read as they were for us to applications, our Ultrabook™ device are affecting the write. I’m eager to hear your feedback relationship with world of software and how touch and suggestions for future issues. Please technology—and control is fast becoming ubiquitous. send me a note at [email protected] how we interact We preview what’s to come with Intel® and stay in “touch.” In the meantime, with it—is always growing. Today, processor-based phones, explore touch enjoy the read! Dthis relationship is moving into one in PC gaming, and view the wider of the most significant evolutions in world of perceptual computing and computing history. Mobile device and user-interface revolutions happening computer users have been shackled now that will become tomorrow’s to keyboards and mice for decades norm. This issue also takes an inspiring while promises of machines controlled look at the #CreatorsLive Project, by thought alone languished in the which invites the public to interact pages of science fiction. But in recent with live art using all their senses. years, touch control has crept slowly You’ll also read about Telmap and the into the framework, permeating the fascinating future of location-based digital world to a point where it’s hard services, take an immersive journey ABOVE Photograph by to imagine a day without it. But touch into the world of augmented reality, Bryan Derballa. isn’t done yet—there’s more to come. and enjoy a thoughtful discussion on Tonya Degance New Touch and Ultrabook™ Designs for 2013

There is a confluence of both new computing designs and software experiences, thanks to the Ultrabook™ device revolution and the introduction of ’s new , Windows* 8. This year you’ll have more choice in feature, size, and shape than at any time since the PC was invented. Manufacturers around the world are designing a range of new devices that are more stylish, significantly thinner and lighter, last longer between charges, turn instantly on, and have built-in security features.

See the new Ultrabook™ models on pages 2 and 3. For details on the Ultrabook device, go to: www.intel.com/ content/www/us/en/ sponsors-of-tomorrow /ultrabook.html

What’s specifically new this year for the Ultrabook device?

The full Windows 8 experience. Intel-inspired and tablets deliver Computers can now transform from clamshell to tablet mode via swivels, a full range of new, amazing experiences with all your existing apps and flips, Ferris wheel-like turns, slides, and more. devices because Intel® architecture uniquely runs the full version of Windows 8. You’ll have access to the new user interface, start screen, live tiles, and apps Thinner and lighter. The newest crop of Ultrabook devices are as slim as in the Windows Store. And—because it’s running on Intel—you can use the one-half inch and as light as 875 grams. applications you already own in the familiar desktop, such as your favorite Microsoft Office* tool and applications for music, photos, and work. Better battery life. With the combination of 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processors and Windows 8 power management features, the latest Touch. Some of the latest Ultrabooks have touch-screens, and when Ultrabook devices provide stellar performance and great battery life–many combined with a touch-friendly redesign of Windows, you get more fingertip systems lasting 8+ hours. With features like App Suspension, minimized options. Our research shows people will find it faster, easier, intuitive, and applications will be suspended, preserving the device’s most recent charge. fun. Touch transforms the computing experience from work to play. Instant on. When living life on-the-go, it’s essential to have a device that is 2-in-1 devices that convert from PC to tablet. Thanks to touch ready at a moment’s notice. The latest Ultrabook devices are equipped with capabilities, device makers have gotten very creative in their designs. Why Intel® Rapid Start Technology so your computer wakes from hibernation in not have a full computing experience when you need to be productive less than seven seconds. and creative, and convert to a tablet when you want to watch a movie?

Intel® Software Adrenaline 1 Intel-inspired ultrabook™ devices

ASUS Taichi* Ultrabook With two screens that can operate independently and can be used simultaneously, it’s the ultimate taskmaster in a lightweight, sleek design.

Dell XPS Duo* 12 With the innovative flip-hinge design, this sleek device transitions from an Ultrabook device to tablet mode without compromising performance or style.

Lenovo IdeaPad* Yoga* This flexible device features a 360-degree flip- and-fold design so that it can be used in either a laptop position or as a tablet.

Toshiba Satellite* U920T/U925T This new touch-enabled device transforms from laptop to tablet mode with ease and features Gorilla* Glass for a richer visual experience.

Intel® Software Adrenaline 2 Panasonic AX2* A rugged 11.6-inch notebook beautifully designed for the touchscreen-era, it easily converts to a tablet with a single fold.

Lenovo Thinkpad* Twist This convertible has a twisting screen and can be used in four modes for easy collaboration, sharing, and everyday hard work.

Sony VAIO* T Series Ultrabook— Touch and Go The 13-inch touch-screen option combines ultra-portability with the convenience of touch, wrapped in a beautiful brushed-aluminum design.

Intel® Software Adrenaline 3 table of contents | issue 2

5 Touch-enabled PCs Fuel Talent 29 Game Developers Get in Touch on with Ultrabook™ Devices

8 The Intel® Processor-based Phone 35 Touch Technology Rocks the Computing Continuum

10 From Outer Space to Your Space 41 Now See This

15 Where the Action Is! 46 Mapping La Vida Local

18 Mobile Security: Seeking a Safe Harbor in the Dangerous Seas of 49 Pro Gamers Laud Ultrabook™ Device the Mobile Web Connectivity Strengths

22 Powering Creative, Social, 53 Houston, We Have Cleared and Emotional Experiences The Tower with Intel® Technology

57 Comic Director 26 Perceptual Computing and the Future of UI

59 Resources

Intel® Software Adrenaline 4 Touch-enabled PCs Fuel Talent on Project Runway Star designers and Anya Ayoung Chee talk tech and creativity

sk someone outside device. And of course technology is Ayoung Chee, both of whom have By Dominic the industry to indispensable to the other aspects of the experienced success and won the hearts Milano AND describe what a job—building and managing a brand of TV viewers by appearing on Project Geoff Arnold designer and nurturing direct relationships with Runway, the reality show on Lifetime looks like, and you customers and fans. Television hosted by . might hear about Though their tools for creating their For the past four seasons of Project a stylishly dressed designs may be changing, one thing Runway, HP and Intel technology have young man or isn’t. Like the best up-and-coming artists helped enable the designers’ creativity, woman hunched over a sketchbook, in any medium, the most accomplished innovation, and passion, which are ABOVE Anya Ayoung Chee Apencil or charcoal stick in hand. But this young designers are imbued with reflected in their pattern design and and Mondo Guerra joined image is more dated than last year’s energy, passion, and innovation that are . The technology is now an Nina Garcia, Tim Gunn, fashions. Designers today are just as apparent both in the styles they dream integral component of the show, and the and Heidi Klum as judges likely to be creating on computers, into existence and in their exuberant HP+Intel Design Challenge is one of the for the Project Runway be they all-in-one touch-enabled PCs personalities. Two prime examples: most anticipated of the show’s challenges. HP+Intel Design Challenge. or a sleek Intel-inspired Ultrabook™ designers Mondo Guerra and Anya

Intel® Software Adrenaline 5 “As creative people we can get stuck in our own ways and processes. It’s important to evolve, and this new technology gives us the opportunity to explore.”

— Mondo Guerra, fashion designer

Mondo Guerra: Exploring the Creative Process

ondo Guerra gained During Season 8, the HP+Intel Design told us, “so I designed a pattern that was worldwide attention in Challenge was to create unique fabric about breaking away. As much as we are 2010 when he appeared on patterns using HP TouchSmart* PCs connected to our families, values, ideals, Project Runway Season 8. and HP TouchSmart tm2* notebooks and traditions, at some point we must M ® ™ He returned to the show in 2012 for powered by processors, follow our dreams and do what’s best for and won the while gathering inspiration from family us as individuals.” Guerra’s design was a largest prize in the show’s history, which photos and personal stories. It was the hounds-tooth abstract that he described included a designer’s boutique in select first time Guerra used a computer in as “going in its own direction.” Neiman Marcus stores and online. His his craft, but the experience had an How does his design relate to artists bold, innovative designs belie his humble immense impact on his creative process. embracing powerful new technologies? roots as a self-taught artist who came “I’m not very tech-savvy,” Guerra “It’s about trying something new,” he up through the ranks as a milliner’s admitted, “but I enjoy the process of said. “As creative people we can get stuck in apprentice, a designer at a junior-wear exploring technology and discovering our own ways and processes. It’s important company in New York, and a costume what works for me. Some artists find to evolve, and this new technology gives us designer in his hometown of . technology intimidating because they’re the opportunity to explore.” Like many designers, Guerra finds used to working with traditional tools— Guerra is building his own brand inspiration in the world around him. “I paper, pencil, tape measure, fabric, and business in Denver. Intel and HP can be inspired by anything,” he said, sewing machines.” technology are powering his design “I’m currently finding inspiration in HP TouchSmart PCs and HP process and helping him communicate the creative process, looking at how I TouchSmart tm2 notebooks equipped directly with his customers, fans, and come up with ideas and apply them to with Intel® processors gave Guerra clients. “I’m always on the computer a collection.” more than enough computing power and having virtual meetings. Without Guerra hopes to expose his creative to manipulate photographs, draw, technology, I couldn’t accomplish process to customers in creative ways, and create patterns on the touch- what I do in a day without traveling to and technology is helping him achieve enabled computers using a stylus or his New York or LA. It has made me more that goal. “I create databases—digital fingertips, an incredibly smooth and productive.” mood boards—filled with information intuitive process that encouraged him and pictures that inspire my work,” to embrace the technology. For details on Mondo Guerra’s fashion Guerra said. “I’m a print-based For Project Runway Season 10, HP and line, see www.mondoguerra.com. ABOVE designer,” he continued, “so I develop a Intel asked Guerra to design a pattern Mondo Guerra with lot of prints using software that’s similar for the Ultrabook device bag. “That an HP TouchSmart* PC. to what we used on Project Runway.” season’s theme was ‘Heritage,’” Guerra

Intel® Software Adrenaline 6 Anya Ayoung Chee: Redefining Caribbean Fashion

ith a diverse background as Ayoung Chee found that using the “Social media and online networking are a designer, stylist, model, HP TouchSmart PC and TouchSmart tm2 fantastic ways to connect directly with and television host, Anya notebook was intuitive. HP and Intel customers,” she said. “Social media such WAyoung Chee launched her worked with software developers to as Facebook*, YouTube*, and Twitter* own women’s clothing line in 2009. create a customized software program can be used to eliminate many steps— She is a graduate of the prestigious for the series. “The software let us tradeshows and in-person meetings—to Parsons School of Design, spent a year create basic shapes or draw directly on show your work. To work at a major working as a designer in , the touch-screen using a pen and a fashion house, you still need to climb competed in the Miss Universe pageant brush. It takes a swatch of what we the ladder in traditional ways. But many in 2008, and won Project Runway created and multiplies it, so you can new brands have become massively Season 9 in 2011. print it onto fabric.” successful because they were able to Her distinctive style reflects a diverse Because a lot of creative work takes market themselves with social media.” range of cultural influences. “I grew up place outside of her design studio, she Ayoung Chee has hosted several in Trinidad, but traveled to Europe and hopes one day to use technology to Web-based fashion events and live Asia with my parents. I am naturally capture images with her smartphone shows, including her own fashion drawn to cultures and the way they and immediately transfer them into a program, Make It Yours. “I’m working dress,” Ayoung Chee said. Her creative pattern-making program. “I’ve spoken on a YouTube channel to talk about process usually starts with online research with Intel and HP engineers about style and techniques. It’s a new way followed by drawing with pen and paper. this. I travel a lot and find inspiration of marketing,” she said. “There are so She relies on her computer for creating everywhere I go, so having technology many new avenues available through patterns. “I love clean lines,” she said. “I that could do this would be very good.” technology, so many opportunities— mostly use Adobe Illustrator* and some Ayoung Chee sees technology there’s nothing stopping you.” Photoshop*, but the program we used giving designers the means to reach for the HP+Intel Design Challenge during new audiences and to perhaps shorten Follow Anya Ayoung Chee’s fashion Season 9 was fantastic. It allowed me to the long path of apprenticeships and business at www.anyaayoungchee.com create patterns very easily. If I had that menial jobs that are prerequisites for BELOW Anya Ayoung Chee technology, I’d use it a lot.” those launching careers in fashion. with Anthony designing on the HP TouchSmart* PC.

“There are so many new avenues available through technology, so many opportunities— there’s nothing stopping you.”

– Anya Ayoung Chee, model and fashion designer here’s a special ISA: It’s amazing to see what ® dynamic at work your team has accomplished in The Intel when two great just one year. How did success things combine. Like come so quickly? a world-class surfer Gaglione: We established a forward- on an ocean wave, thinking path that led us through the Processor- a perfectly balanced initial setup: define the process, hire the synergy exists people, lay down the strategy, and get between Intel and Motorola Mobility. things going. During the past year-and- TBut that partnership is just the most a-half, we accelerated and honed our based Phone recent development. Intel’s Mobile focus on the Android operating system and Communications Group (MCG) and created very competitive products. proved it was serious about entering The team’s pace and development Insights from Philippe Gaglione the smartphone race in 2008 when process have evolved tremendously. it recruited 20-year wireless industry What began as, “We don’t know what veteran Philippe Gaglione to take on the we need to do to get to where we definition, integration, and testing of want to be,” is now, “We know exactly By Edward J. Correia their system software. Gaglione inherited where we are and what we want to MCG’s software organization and is now do.” We made it happen. directing their overall software execution for Intel processor-based Android* ISA: Did you have to break any smartphone and tablet platforms. rules to get there? When Mike Bell joined Intel in 2010, Gaglione: As a matter of fact, we Gaglione and Bell wasted no time had to build everything. My team building a phone team. In about one built the software solution, and we year’s time, they had a design based completely changed the methodology on the Intel™ ® processor Z2460, and streamlined our development and has since earned phone wins with processes. Deciding to focus on only Lava (India), Lenovo (People’s Republic one target was extremely important, of ), Motorola Mobility (Europe and it was initially quite difficult to and Latin America), Orange (France implement a year ago. There were and United Kingdom), ZTE (Europe), multiple targets, multiple products, and and Megaphone (Russia). With Intel’s different operating systems being used. resources and process technology savvy, To complement our team, we brought the single-core processor in industry experts to help us achieve with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology that single-target focus. is just the beginning. MCG’s first choice of operating ISA: What changes were made to systems was Android, which runs the development process specifically well on the Intel Atom processor and to help you move more quickly? for which Intel offers great software Gaglione: We first decided to build the development tools, including the overall software solutions top-down Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution as opposed to bottom-up. Instead Manager, Intel® Graphics Performance of taking the route, “…we have an Analyzers for Android, and Intel® integrated circuit—a system on a chip VTune™ Analyzer. To get an inside look (SoC)—and we need to put software on at MCG, Intel® Software Adrenaline top of it,” we approached the problem magazine sat down with Gaglione to differently. To serve customers with talk about the goals of MCG and how certain expectations on device usage, he has achieved them. we needed to define use cases and then find the best way to implement them in Intel Software Adrenaline (ISA): our solution. Describe your current role at Intel. ABOVE Philippe Gaglione. Philippe Gaglione: I drive a large ISA: What were some of those organization with a global footprint. use cases? RIGHT AND FAR RIGHT We build solutions for mobile phones Gaglione: Obviously making a call [is Motorola RAZR™ i. and tablets using various semiconductor one], but also browsing the Internet and vendors. Our emphasis is on developing using the camera. It’s everything that the Android experience for all Intel® people do with their phones throughout architecture solutions. the day. We took a top-down approach to streamline the execution and created

Intel® Software Adrenaline 8 the best experience—across both power ISA: While pitching Intel ISA: What can you tell readers and performance—associated with architecture-based smartphones to about what they might expect from each of those experiences. You build device makers and carriers, did you Intel’s Mobile and Communications the solution based on something the meet any resistance? Group this year? user will contemplate as opposed to Gaglione: Of course there were Gaglione: We’ve shown the industry building a solution that’s simply a layer questions and lots of discussion. that Intel is capable and has the right of software on top of an SoC. That was However, reviews on the RAZR™ i technology and the right people to the revolution. (the phone we built with Motorola) compete in the mobile space. In early show better power numbers than the 2013, we want to show what’s coming ISA: Intel received some impressive competitors’ phones because we put next, that we can do it better, and that design wins in a year and made forth a huge engineering effort and we intend to become a strong player in carrier contracts throughout spent a lot of time in optimization to that space. the world. Was the top-down ensure our solution was solid. For many approach to interface design a big years—on both the SoC side and the ISA: What are the main ideas that selling point? software side—we spent an enormous you’d like readers to take away Gaglione: Without this approach we amount of time developing this very from this article? wouldn’t be in business. I wouldn’t say competitive solution. The complexity Gaglione: The big change is that we’re that this has been the differentiator or is was putting that solution into a phone, developing software solutions from what made us successful, but this was a and then comparing our solution a system perspective. To approach minimum requirement for success. to competitors’ phones using real vertically integrated markets, such measurements. as phones or tablets, you must bring ISA: This was necessary just to be in a system approach and implement the game? ISA: Turning back to the RAZR i, solutions top-down, starting with Gaglione: When I took over the how important was the Motorola use-case definitions. You must then software organization, engineers were design win for the overall success integrate the use cases and test them. using multiple software builds. We of the project? By deploying this approach, we can streamlined that completely so there’s Gaglione: This is a very important get products to market faster, focus on now just one main line of software relationship. Working with Motorola customer differentiation, and create an that everybody references across the demonstrates that Intel can work improved experience for consumers. organization. This was development together with solid phone OEM It is a new frontier for Intel, an SoC methodology 101 for systems. However, brands, develop innovative solutions, and silicon-centric company. We have Intel was not really building a system and contribute to their hardware and moved to systems and are learning to back then, it was focused on building software to bring a competitive product master the method of putting those SoCs. That was the big change we to market. This is a positive message systems together. But I think we have instituted: Intel is now building systems. for both the industry and its customers. caught up and we’re now level with the Motorola and Intel worked together to competition. The next step is to become ISA: Even though some Intel® build a phone that is at least as good, even more efficient in our software and architecture-based phones use an if not better, than the rest—and in a system development processes. Intel-developed Android overlay, it record time to market. It is a very strong seems that the main thrust of your message to other OEMs. Get the latest information on the RAZR i work has been to enable apps and at: newsroom.intel.com/docs/DOC-2993 overlays of third-parties to run well ISA: What are Intel’s plans for a on Intel architecture. Is that right? device in the United States and Gaglione: Yes, that is true. Some other markets? customers have their own application Gaglione: We initially focused our About the Author layer or customization that they put on smartphone plans on a number of Edward J. Correia has been a part of the top of Android. With other customers, high-growth markets outside of the computer industry since 1980, when he however, we provide the overall solution. United States. Motorola is planning began selling (and occasionally hacking) As Intel positions Our team built and optimized some activities in other markets, and they’re computers from Atari and Commodore. itself to compete additions to what the Android framework working on solutions for China. Most In addition to writing for RH+M3, Correia in the smartphone is proposing on top of the Android UI. U.S. operators ask for LTE solutions, currently serves as managing editor at market and battle and we are hard at work on a solution. the CRN Test Center, a computer and with the iconic ISA: Will developers targeting this Our goal with LTE is to deliver a networking test lab that he helped establish iPhone*, it has platform have to worry about which comprehensive low power, global in 1995. During a 10-year hiatus from been forging solid overlay is on the device? modem solution that works across CRN’s parent company, United Business alliances. Perhaps Gaglione: Not at all. Our goal for multiple bands, modes, and regions. Media, Correia was editor of Software Test none is more the solutions is that all applications After validation is finished, we will have & Performance magazine and executive strategic than that developed today can run on our multiple variants of LTE in the market editor of SD Times. with Motorola platform. In today’s Android market, in 2013, beginning with data, followed Mobility, the mobile when you find an application, it’s likely by multi-mode data and voice. arm of Google*. to run well on our platform.

Intel® Software Adrenaline 9 From Outer Space to Your Space Wind River and Intel power innovation everywhere you go

By Dominic Milano

illions of connected devices—in of embedded and mobile software. architecture, that make it possible to cars and aircraft, consumer Now a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel, consolidate, integrate, and manage electronics, industrial process Wind River operates as part of Intel’s complexity while mitigating risk. Bsystems, medical devices, next- Software and Services Group. Its mission Together with Intel, Wind River generation network technology, and is to deliver software and expertise supplies governments and businesses beyond—are revolutionizing embedded that enable the rapid innovation and with the essential software and hardware and mobile computing. These intelligent deployment of highly safe, secure, and building blocks that are driving innovation systems give consumers and businesses reliable intelligent systems. in computing that manages mission- the power to access information from Wind River began as a consultancy critical systems on spacecraft, tele-robotic nearly any device at any time, opening a 30 years ago. The company’s founders surgical systems, and commercial avionics, world of incredible possibilities. Software saw a niche for systems that needed as well as in smartphones, in-vehicle developers need new techniques and determinism and developed VxWorks*, infotainment (IVI) systems, cloud- technologies to manage their migration the first successful real-time operating connected wireless solutions, next- to these next-generation platforms. To system (RTOS), now the de facto generation networks, and more. ABOVE Photo Credit: that end, Intel (in 2009) demonstrated standard in embedded development. “We have customers that do NASA, ESA, and the its commitment to aggressively expand Today, Wind River offers both incredibly cool things and customers Hubble Heritage Team outside its traditional footprint—into proprietary and open-source standards- that do critically important things,” (STScI/AURA). embedded and mobility markets—by based development and runtime said Jim Douglas, Wind River senior acquiring Wind River, a leading provider platforms, all optimized for Intel® vice president. “For some, the cost of

Intel® Software Adrenaline 10 Exploring Intelligence, Security, and Mobility failure is measured not in lost data but typically performed a single task in lost life or property. This imparts a and were powered by 8- and 16-bit Wind River teams, along with Intel, are studying the following key deep sense of responsibility and urgency microcontrollers with memory footprints areas of interest with an eye on innovation: that makes Wind River’s customer that were measured in kilobytes. • Intelligent networks. Tasked with looking at current and next- relationships unique.” The fact that Wind Developing software for them required generation network technology, serving the needs of network River technology can be found in more highly efficient code that ran atop an providers and software developers. than one billion devices on earth—and RTOS such as Wind River VxWorks. • Intelligent devices. Working to identify and define new classes dozens in space—is a testament to the “In most cases, these devices weren’t of devices that are adding connectivity to the cloud and tying company’s commitment to serving the connected,” Douglas said. “If they into more traditional embedded environments. needs of its customers. were, it was by proprietary means and • Safe-and-secure devices. This team works on platforms the software controlling them was for regulated environments such as industrial, defense, and necessarily limited.” Douglas attributes transportation where certification and compliance are essential. ADVANCES IN INTEL® this to the available computing power • Mobility. Although Wind River has had tremendous success PROCESSORS AND OPEN of the time. “The silicon platforms— serving the mobile market, the company is exploring with Intel SOURCE FUEL EMBEDDED from an energy consumption and the exciting new areas of mobility that go beyond traditional INNOVATION price standpoint—didn’t allow you to mobile devices to in-vehicle infotainment systems. Wind River run software that could drive more and Intel envision mobility residing in the network nodes of the It wasn’t long ago that embedded intelligence into the system.” future, which could be anywhere or on anything that moves. devices were relatively simple—they

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The Connected Future

When that intelligence is combined with connectivity into the enterprise and into the cloud, incredible things are possible. “A perfect example is the connected car,” Douglas continued. “Today, IVI systems are able to connect to the cloud, allowing content—music, maps, movies, firmware updates, and so on—to be pushed to a car. The automotive industry wants to build an ecosystem that lets them create and monetize content.” The same holds true for connected devices in the home. For example, cable and telephone companies, Internet service providers, and mobile operators are moving quickly to identify the connected devices that will enable them to deliver high-value, revenue- generating services. “Home gateways, tablet PCs, and hybrid devices such as In the past five years, open- processor family opened a new world the Intel-inspired Ultrabook™ device, source development models and the of possibilities. “We’re seeing greater IPTV set-top boxes, media phones, emergence of * with real-time intelligence—systems can perform more multi-function printers, cameras, smart ABOVE Wind River attributes gave developers the ability to than a single task,” Douglas said. “In a meters, and monitoring systems will Hypervisor is an embedded deploy small-footprint Embedded Linux, lot of cases, they’re performing those contribute to the growth in the digital virtualization platform that which lends itself to embedded Internet tasks autonomously.” living and consumer device market.” facilitates next-generation, devices thanks to its microprocessor In the manufacturing domain, “CTOs multi-core embedded support and scalability. In addition, want to connect their factory processes device development. modern silicon such as multi-core Intel® with their supply chain and leverage Atom™ processors and the Intel® Core™ business intelligence to optimize their

Intel® Software Adrenaline 12 Securing the Connected World

hen intelligent systems are connected to the enterprise or to the “Security is a function that must be addressed in multiple layers for each cloud, there is risk of security being compromised, which means device,” Douglas said. “You have to consider the entirety of each device, you can no longer guarantee safe operation. “That sea change has any intermediate devices, the network, and the ecosystem around them. Wenormous implications to our install base as it exists today, but We’re constantly taking stock of our customer’s needs in every market we when you consider all the new classes of connected devices that are expected serve, looking at both current and future threats, and mapping out the most in the future, the security challenges are huge,” said Jim Douglas, senior vice effective and efficient strategies for dealing with them.” president of marketing at Wind River. “It’s a game changer.” Douglas explained that some security measures are best implemented If you think about a car becoming just another network node, the need for directly in silicon, while others can be left to software, either in the operating security becomes even more pressing. In the short term, in-vehicle infotainment system or further up the solution stack. He explained that truly effective systems are the point of connection to the cloud and they are not linked with device security requires a defense-in-depth approach, creating a chain of trust the control systems in the car. However, in the future there will be a push to consisting of multiple hardware and software security capabilities, and whose consolidate systems in the vehicle to reduce size, weight, and power (SWaP). trust anchor is embedded in the hardware. Wind River runtime technologies “We saw the same trend in military and civilian aircraft design,” Douglas include a wide range of security capabilities and technology. explained. “Once you consolidate safety systems that are now separated (or Wind River works closely with Intel to develop embedded platforms equipped federated) with systems that are connected to the cloud, they are suddenly with virtualization hardware-assist and other features that safeguard devices vulnerable. Now a security intrusion doesn’t only mean potential loss of data, from security threats. For example, 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processor it means someone could potentially compromise critical safety systems. If the architecture supports Intel® Trusted Execution Technology, which offers network node gets breached, people could be seriously injured.” malware protection by validating component behavior at startup, and Intel® For software developers, guarding against these kinds of network breaches Virtualization Technology, which enables applications to run in secure partitions is essential. Wind River and Intel are working together to provide developers that prevent unintended software interactions. Combining these technologies with the tools to create secure networks and to secure the embedded devices creates a secure, virtualized platform that verifies the integrity of a virtual attached to those networks. machine prior to launching an application.

entire operation,” Douglas added. possible to consolidate, integrate, and “Within the next few years, the impact manage complexity while mitigating risk. of connected devices will be felt in “We have customers that do virtually every vertical market.” Along with the incredible The Multi-Core Device incredibly cool things and opportunities offered by connectivity Revolution come significant challenges. For customers that do critically example, factory-automation system Devices are getting more complex— builders need to get to market phones double as cameras, MP3 players, important things. For faster while creating devices that game systems, movie players, GPS-based comply with strict safety codes. For navigation systems, and email clients. some, the cost of failure is car manufacturers, the challenge Intel® multi-core processors are helping is matching the lightning-fast pace enable these capabilities. But while measured not in lost data of development in the consumer multi-core processors are ubiquitous in electronics space while meeting the IT and enterprise space, they’re new but in lost life or property. regulatory requirements. As Douglas to embedded device developers. Key put it, “The key to survival is innovating to growth of multi-core in embedded This imparts a deep faster, and the key to speeding the rate devices is the use of virtualization of innovation is integration.” technology. “Virtualization lets you better sense of responsibility As founding members of the leverage multi-core architectures to isolate GENIVI* Alliance, Wind River and Intel critical safe and secure system partitions, and urgency that makes collaborated with other members to and to build in necessary redundancy,” create a common software architecture Douglas said. “Virtualization also helps Wind River’s customer platform that scales across current and extract the full performance potential of future product lines. The open-source multi-core. But to get the most out of relationships unique.” platform helps automakers deliver multi-core, in addition to virtualization innovations at a faster pace, while technology, you need operating systems —Jim Douglas, Senior Vice President of Marketing, enabling new business models such as that can be configured in different ways, Wind River connected services. for example, SMP, AMP, and so on.” For factory-automation system Wind River Hypervisor lets developers makers, Wind River offers end-to-end tap directly into the virtualization development and runtime platforms technologies built into Intel architecture, based on open standards that make it and provides a virtualization layer that

Intel® Software Adrenaline 13 partitions a single or multi-core chip on Intel architecture platforms and Wind River Technology into multiple partitions with varying includes three powerful Intel software levels of protection and capabilities. development tools: at a Glance The Hypervisor allows developers to consolidate by replacing multiple boards • Intel® C/C++ Compiler boosts Wind River VxWorks*. A real-time operating system that powered or CPUs with a single board or a single performance on Intel architectures. dozens of NASA missions, including the Mars rover Curiosity, as well CPU. They can use multiple operating as Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, and much more. systems (such as a real-time operating • Intel® Integrated Performance Wind River Linux*. A commercial-grade Linux solution for embedded system and a general-purpose operating Primitives provide platform-optimized device development. system) cooperatively to provide algorithms, code samples, and APIs for Wind River Android Technologies. A portfolio of software and innovative device functionality and adopt high-bandwidth applications. testing products to support rapid and high-quality platform and multi-core processors with improved application development and security for devices running the Android scalability and reliability. • Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE delivers operating system. “You also need middleware optimized actionable analysis of code behavior Wind River . A high-performance simulation environment for multi-core and virtualization, such as and performance without having to in which any electronic system—from a single board to complex, a network stack that can take advantage instrument the source code. heterogeneous, multi-board, multi-processor, and multi-core of the offloading that multi-core systems—can be defined, developed, and deployed. provides,” Douglas said. “And finally, All three tools are in a single-build Wind River Test Management. A fully automated software-testing you need tools that allow debugging of system layer, allowing Wind River Linux optimization framework that allows customers to identify high-risk the whole system simultaneously.” users to easily install and use them. areas of production code, prioritize quality assurance activities, and Integration with Wind River Workbench optimize engineering resources. offers enhanced visibility into software at Wind River Hypervisor. A deterministic, event-driven Type 1 Enabling Standardized all stages of development. embedded virtualization solution developed with the demands of real- Connected-Platform Wind River offers software time and safety systems in mind. The hypervisor provides integration Development development platforms for an extensive with Wind River Linux and VxWorks guests, and supports third- range of industries and application party unmodified operating systems. It also leverages virtualization Future systems, such as the federated purposes, including automotive, technologies built into Intel® processors. connected car, will benefit from Intel consumer electronics, networks, Wind River Performance Studio. Enables developers to tap the full and Wind River efforts to standardize industrial devices, medical devices, and power of their Intel® embedded platform of choice, including Intel connected platform development. more. Each platform includes Wind River platforms running the latest embedded Intel® Core™, Intel® ®, or According to Douglas, virtualization Workbench and a rich set of integrated Intel® Atom™ processors. will play a critical role. In other markets runtime technologies, including extensive Wind River Workbench. A collection of tools that accelerates such as networking, Kernel-based networking protocols, security, wireless, time-to-market for developers building devices with VxWorks Virtual Machine (KVM, an open-source mobility, and graphics. and Wind River Linux. It includes visual configuration and analysis component of Linux supported in tools that streamline design, development, debugging, testing, and Intel processors’ silicon through Intel® management. (see graphic below). Virtualization Technology) will be Looking Forward key. “We’re working closely with the Graphical User Wind River Host Shell Interface Developer Network networking group at Intel on strategies Intel and Wind River innovations are for adding real-time capabilities to KVM, helping to reshape the face of Eclipse Framework so it will map directly into the emerging computing. Intel, through its Wind River Analysis System Third-Party Project Editor market for network virtualization,” subsidiary, is committed to offering Data Viewer CM Douglas said. “Real-time requirements off-the-shelf solutions for embedded Source Code Memory Unit and Alternate Build Integration Analyzer Perform Testing Editor in networking will require virtualization and mobile development that can be Coverage Third-Party that’s different and more robust than tailored to meet specific industry needs, Compiler Debugger Diagnostics Trace Tool typically found in data centers.” helping save development time, reduce

Target Agent and On-Chip Such new developments also costs, and decrease risk, all while Debugging Connectivity require new tools, because as Douglas achieving the best possible performance explained, “Ultimately, people are on Intel architecture. VxWorks Simulator Wind River Linux VxWorks custom building their operating environments for these kinds of devices, and they’re building applications on top Wind River JTAG Workbench. An on-chip debugging solution enables of them.” Through close collaboration developers to quickly stabilize and optimize as well as assess the with Intel, Wind River provides a robust ABOUT THE AUTHOR state of operating systems, device drivers, applications, and Unified set of developer tools that span multiple Before signing on as one of the writing Extensible Firmware Interface-compliant BIOS. Supports the latest parts of the product lifecycle. muses for RH+M3, Dominic Milano spent platforms based on Intel Atom, Intel Core, and Intel Xeon processors. For example, Wind River many years in print, online, and event media Wind River Middleware. Technologies tested and integrated with Performance Studio, which plugs into production, working on DV magazine, Wind River operating systems that let developers take a modular Wind River Workbench, an integrated Game Developer magazine and the Game approach to building fundamental technologies so they can better development environment, provides Developer Conference, Keyboard magazine, focus on adding differentiating features to their devices. tools for optimizing performance Guitar Player magazine, and more.

Intel® Software Adrenaline 14 Where the Action Is! GoPro HD Cameras and CineForm Studio* software on Intel® Core™ i7 processors redefine 3D moviemaking

he GoPro HERO* set a HERO cameras side-by-side to shoot bolted onto the end of the camera, By Dominic new standard in wearable, eye-popping stereo 3D footage. The not the other way around; his skills as Milano mountable HD cameras. included GoPro CineForm Studio* a snowboarder are jaw-dropping; and TCapable of producing software—optimized for the Intel® Core™ the edit, which is made up of straight professional quality still-shots and moving i7 processor—makes editing and sharing 3D cuts between forward- and backward- images, this tiny form-factor camera is footage a breeze. facing camera work, captures the spirit light enough to mount on a helmet or of the run perfectly. strap on a wrist, and sturdy enough to Capturing the thrill of a moment and suction-cup to the front of a speeding High-Impact sharing it as quickly and easily as possible locomotive. Its fixed-focus lens and high- 3D Self-filming is what it’s all about for Humphreys. definition output makes it the choice “Spending seconds instead of minutes of professional adrenaline junkies and Pro Snowboarder Tim Humphreys is on the video editing and production action sports enthusiasts the world over. no stranger to GoPro cameras and process gives me more time on my board The GoPro 3D HERO System GoPro CineForm Studio software. He’s and on the mountain,” he said. builds on the original HERO concept, been self-filming his shredding since Shooting with a GoPro 3D HERO giving users the ability to mount two picking up a HERO in 2010. His first system gives Humphreys the ability GoPro footage, which to make high-impact 3D movies, and you can watch at www. because HERO cameras are impossibly youtube.com/watch?v= small, he can mount them to his helmet EaHswmKKW1w, is or snowboard, strap them on a glove, remarkable for a number or wear them across his chest to get of reasons: Throughout incredible point-of-view 3D footage. the run, Humphreys shot handheld, which gives the impression that he’s Accelerated Editing, Playback, and Conversion

LEFT Editing in GoPro Bringing two streams of 720p HD video CineForm Studio. into a computer and editing it, while

Intel® Software Adrenaline 15 Booth 20124, South Hall 1 18 Years ON THE AIR at CES!

Once again broadcasting from CES, Into Tomorrow with Dave Graveline —now in its 18th year— is a three-hour radio program and online video reports called ITTV (Into Tomorrow TV), covering the latest in consumer electronics and technology fb.com/IntoTomorrow available today and into tomorrow. The show airs every weekend on 186 AM and @itRadioShow FM radio stations around the United States, stations in Canada and several other MyITTV.com sources including Mobile Broadcast Network, iTunes, BeOS Radio, Sprint Radio, TiVo, Stitcher, Podzilla and many others. Into Tomorrow is also heard around the world on the Armed Forces Networks. In addition, they stream their audio and video via their website and provide free podcasts of show archives. If you have an iPhone®, iPod®, iPad® or any Android device, you can also listen to the stream via their free app, downloadable from the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, Amazon and the Intel AppUp® center for netbooks and notebooks.

Covering Consumer Tech / www.IntoTomorrow.com Intel® Software Adrenaline 16 getting smooth full frame-rate playback, into more full-featured video-editing requires a lot of processing muscle. GoPro applications, such as Adobe Premiere cameras come with CineForm Studio, Pro*, Apple Final Cut Pro*, Avid Media Tim Humphreys— easy-to-use video editing software that Composer*, Sony Vegas*, and more. can handle 2D and 3D footage. The The Intel Core i7 processor with Intel Pro Snowboarder software is compatible with Microsoft Quick Sync Video also lets Humphreys Windows* and Mac OS*, and CineForm quickly work with 3D images in the fter turning pro in 2007, Tim Humphreys has finished recommends an Intel Core i7 processor to GoPro CineForm Studio software. “I in the top 10 of 13 international events, including three give it the power to tackle the processor- have a wide range of 3D convergence Winter X Games. For his best performance, he earned top intensive demands of 3D footage. settings to work with,” Humphreys said, Ahonors in the Air & Style Games in . At press time, Humphreys has used both Windows- “And I have the option to choose from he had just picked up a new GoPro HERO* 3—the newest GoPro based notebooks and a MacBook* Pro, multiple types of 3D views for different that’s capable of shooting 120 frames per second 720p HD video all equipped with Intel Core i7 processors viewing platforms. For me it’s all about as well as Ultra HD—4K-resolution HD video that was formerly the to power CineForm Studio while he’s producing eye-popping 3D effects.” exclusive purview of digital cinema cameras such as the RED ONE*, still on the slopes. CineForm Studio Watching Humphreys’ GoPro which costs 50 times more than a HERO 3. in conjunction with the Intel Core i7 footage, the stabilization is immediately processor give Humphreys all he needs evident—the movement is smooth, even to work on his footage whenever and though Humphreys is doing some crazy wherever he wants. shredding, going airborne, spinning, and GoPro engineers tuned and optimized otherwise ripping up the slopes on his CineForm Studio for Intel Core i7 board, all while holding his HERO camera. processors using the Intel® Media helped GoPro Software Development Kit (Intel® CineForm Studio enhance visual quality Media SDK), which let them tap into by capturing images at 60 frames-per- Intel® Quick Sync Video on-chip media second, while eliminating camera shake. processing and conversion. Intel Quick “The software gives me more frames to Sync Video greatly accelerates H.264 work with,” Humphrey said. “I can slow encoding and conversion, which means it down to 30 frames-per-second, which that Humphreys’ 3D footage loads faster, allows me to capture all the action in a converts to editing-friendly CineForm crisp, up-close and personal way. It makes AVI or MOV files in a wink, and plays my wildest ideas possible.” back smoothly during editing. “Intel Quick Sync Video offloads all the video ® transcoding with the GoPro software, Power to Spare, More Time “Intel Quick Sync Video offloads freeing up my processor to do multiple to Shred tasks at once, allowing me to make all the video transcoding with the better use of my time,” Humphreys said. Nothing disrupts the creative flow like a Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology dead battery in the middle of nowhere GoPro software, freeing up my further boosts performance on or on the slopes. “I spend a lot of time Humphreys’ computers by enabling on the mountains where I can’t recharge processor to do multiple tasks at each processor thread to handle my notebook,” Humphreys said. “I need a different task. This in turn lets a powerful notebook that has a long once, allowing me to make better CineForm Studio perform at its best, battery life.” Luckily, his computers’ delivering faster transfer, load, and Intel Core i7 processors take advantage use of my time.” import speeds while other programs of integrated Power Aware Interrupt are running. “I can choose my settings Routing for increased power savings, — Tim Humphreys, pro snowboarder and quickly convert the clips I want resulting in lower idle power output to work with,” said Humphreys. “The that saves energy for more demanding GoPro CineForm Studio software lets applications—or for editing 3D video on a you batch process everything with an mountainside in the snow. intuitive step-by-step process.” “I spend a lot of time chasing the such as YouTube and GoPro.com. And GoPro CineForm Studio lets you make snow, with an average day being at least because the software takes advantage simple adjustments—such as trimming a twelve-hour mission,” Humphreys said. of media processing capabilities of clips or creating slow-motion effects—or “Every minute I can shave off transcoding Intel Quick Sync Video on Intel Core perform more advanced tasks such as and rendering video in my timelines i7 processors, the export process takes color correction. It also gives you the allows me to focus on my riding.” seconds, giving Humphreys more time ability to preview and monitor 3D clips GoPro CineForm Studio gives him to do what he loves—hitting the slopes. on a 3D-enabled monitor or TV. If you the ability to share completed video want to dive into more advanced editing, clips with friends, colleagues, and the For details on CineForm Studio see: CineForm Studio can export CineForm world by exporting MP4/H.264 files that gopro.com/3d-cineform-studio-how- 422-format clips that can be imported can be uploaded to social media sites it-works/

Intel® Software Adrenaline 17 Mobile Security: Seeking a Safe Harbor in the Dangerous Seas of the Mobile Web

When the Web goes mobile, today’s “digital omnivores” aren’t the only ones with an appetite

By John Tyrrell

Intel® Software Adrenaline 18 nly a brave never been seen before. According to laggard would comScore, as of June 2011, 16 percent claim that the (nearly 37 million) of all U.S. mobile world of mobile phone users were accessing online communication financial services, including banking isn’t undergoing and credit card services, using their a paradigm smartphones. The use of mobile devices shift. While by U.S. consumers for online shopping marketers and grew by 87 percent from 2010 to 2011, researchers reaching 28.5 million people, a trend that are rushing to stay abreast of how shows no sign of abating. Oconsumers are using portable Internet- enabled devices to perform a growing range of tasks, large global communities Precautionary Security of developers and users are already driving and living these changes every But behind the big numbers and bold day. The convenience of a widely buzzwords, something else is going on available broadband Internet connection that merits the attention of every mobile combined with powerful portable Internet user and which the security devices has led to explosions in both the experts at McAfee are deeply concerned quantity and variety of online activities about. So far, the dark underbelly consumers engage in using their mobile of illegal Internet activity—ID theft, phones, tablets, and laptops. phishing, hacking, and other nefarious Digital research company comScore deeds—has been primarily associated has branded this current generation with the more classic face of computing: of technology consumers “digital desktop PCs and laptops. However, omnivores,” those who leap effortlessly times are changing. Only a few years ago between devices to satiate their endless the under-the-hood processing power appetite for the fruits of the Internet. and capabilities of the average mobile Ultrabook™ devices are taking powerful phone could just about manage to send PC performance mobile in a big way. a multimedia message. Today, for the And the meteoric rise of tablet and majority of those using mainly apps and smartphone penetration in global browsers, there’s almost no noticeable markets from the United States and performance difference between a Mexico to South America and Africa current generation smartphone, tablet, or is bringing previously unconnected Ultrabook device and many considerably markets into the Internet ecosystem bulkier laptops and desktops, plus there in huge numbers. According to Tata is often even greater connectivity. This Communications, Africa has added is leading to the use of portable devices a colossal 316 million new mobile for increasingly complex—and private— phone subscribers since 2000, a trend tasks, which in turn puts them in the which, along with a blossoming mobile cross-hairs for criminals. broadband infrastructure, is contributing “When people think about their to an explosion of Internet connectivity smartphone, they think of it more in the region. Meanwhile, smartphone as a phone than as a fully capable penetration exceeded 50 percent of the computer with four ways of accessing total U.S. mobile market for the first that device wirelessly,” said Gary Davis, time in 2012. vice president of Global Consumer Consumers are using an ever wider Marketing at McAfee. “The reality is variety of hardware, with single activities that those devices are equally at risk, being performed across multiple devices. if not more at risk, because of the way In August 2012, a Google study1 found people use them.” that 90 percent of consumers are using The inherent dangers in using multiple screens sequentially during multiple devices to perform activities browsing, with 67 percent doing so for such as banking and e-commerce are shopping. Consumers are embracing obvious, and yet often ignored. Each seamless cross-platform e-commerce and additional device into which a user other secure activities at a level that has has entered credit card or password

1The New Multi-screen World: Understanding Cross-Platform Consumer Behavior (August 2012)

Intel® Software Adrenaline 19 information increases the danger of that are quite rudimentary, but I think we’ll information being stolen or misused by see the level of sophistication increase,” hackers or criminals. However, while said Davis. “They’re going to get better most PC and laptop users don’t think at building and distributing malware, twice about ensuring their systems are resulting in more sophisticated and more equipped with anti-virus and malware targeted attacks on mobile devices.” protection at the very least, taking the A good example of how hackers have same precautions is not yet universal updated their tactics to take advantage when it comes to mobile devices. of smartphone users is the recent Recent research2 by the National story of a 20-year old programmer Cyber Security Alliance and McAfee apprehended in northern France. found that two-thirds of U.S. He created a seemingly bona fide smartphone owners have never installed smartphone app that automatically sent any kind of security software onto text messages to a premium number he their phones. Paradoxically, users are had created himself. Using this method demonstrating clear awareness of the he was able to collect small sums security risks involved when connecting from an estimated 17,000 individuals, on the move, with almost two-thirds amassing approximately half a million deciding not to download apps euros in a little over a year. With literally because of concerns relating to identity hundreds of new apps released onto theft, privacy, data collection, and the the world’s app stores every day, it can reputation of the service provider. So be difficult for consumers to determine while there is awareness of security the difference between legitimate and issues, a disconnect exists between that malicious apps. and how users are actually securing This is where anti-malware software, their devices. such as McAfee’s cross-platform All Despite their wariness, consumers Access* security offering, can help, generally feel that mobile devices are scanning the behavior of apps to safer, a point of view for which there is notify users when they are about to do valid justification. The current security something that might be harmful and “When people think about their threat level on mobile devices is nowhere handing them back control. near that for PCs, but that could be “We have a capability called App smartphone, they think of it changing soon. “Today, hackers are Scanning,” explained Davis. “We know spending a lot of their time going into apps with malicious intent display more as a phone than as a fully devices, not because they’re necessarily certain characteristics. For example if less secure but because there’s more you have a flashlight application, it capable computer with four of them out there. It’s the law of large doesn’t need permission to look at your numbers. Hackers tend to go where voice records, call logs, or location data. ways of accessing that device the volumes are.” And with emerging So if the app is looking for permissions markets and growing penetration comes that a flashlight app shouldn’t have, wirelessly. The reality is that increasing volume, dangling ever more App Scanning would notify the user tempting carrots in front of the world’s when he downloads the app so that he those devices are equally at risk, high-tech criminal elements. may want to reconsider.” In addition to the dangers presented if not more at risk, because of by intentionally malicious apps, in Dangerously October 2012, researchers at Leibniz the way you use them.” Sophisticated University of Hanover and the computer science department at the Philipps — Gary Davis, Vice President, As with any field of development, it takes University of Marburg tested the security Global Consumer Marketing, McAfee time for malware and virus programmers of 13,500 of the most popular apps to master their platform. “Right now available on Google’s play store and we’re still early in the development of discovered serious vulnerabilities in eight malware targeting mobile devices so most percent of them.3 They found that these

2The National Cyber Security Alliance conducted a study with McAfee to analyze the cyber security behaviors and perceptions of Americans. The study was conducted by JZ Analytics, which surveyed 1,000 adults nationwide from August 31, 2012 to September 3, 2012.

Intel® Software Adrenaline 20 1,074 apps were exposed to “man-in- Close relationships with other industry Pursuing hardware-based security the-middle” attacks, allowing hackers partners in the value chain are also measures is another key weapon in to capture user data, including login vital to ensure the message reaches the two companies’ security arsenal. details for anything from online banking users. “We are working with the “Continuing to explore ways that and email to social media, and even manufacturers who build the devices we can use hardware to assist in making it possible to remotely remove (such as Samsung, DELL, and Lenovo), the security function or, better yet, apps, including a security application. those that make Ultrabook devices, accelerate the security function, is The researchers also carried out a survey and those that build the handsets,” going to be an important part of Intel’s of 754 users and found that around said Davis. “We have to make sure that and McAfee’s work,” said Davis. “The half were unable to correctly judge the we’re engaging and having a dialogue. more we can rely on silicon to do security of a browser session on their We also have to work with the carriers, some of the heavy lifting for security mobile device. those that provide devices to consumers. attributes, the better it’s going to be We’ve taken a multi-pronged approach, for users. For example, having products and we’re working with every provider like anti-theft in Ultrabook devices Fast Education in the mobile chain.” provides a level of protection that I think is unrivalled in the industry.” Encouraging consumers to secure their Ultimately, Intel and McAfee are devices and to develop awareness of Security Evolved focused on evolving their security safe usage is a large task, but the work offering to adapt to the changes in has already begun. “Education is one of Another positive factor that will influence how consumers use connected devices, the things we’re working on with Intel,” consumer perception of mobile security concentrating on the cross-platform said Davis. The hope is that the process is the evolution of the Ultrabook device experience rather than specific devices. can be well underway before the scale of market. With the new generation of “We need to transition from protecting the opportunity becomes so irresistible systems that blur the lines between what devices you use to protecting what to hackers that the ticking time bomb of powerful, highly portable laptops and you do,” said Davis. “I bank, I socialize, mobile security explodes. tablet hybrids, it’s possible that good I network, I e-mail, I do all these things “I think we’re headed for a wakeup security habits will follow users from the online. We need to work out what we call where there’s going to be a massive land of traditional laptops into these can do to ensure that we’re providing the outbreak,” said Davis. “We saw this in smaller, portable form factors. optimal level of protection that allows the early days of computer viruses, where you to do those things in a safe way.” it takes a big outbreak that dramatically affects lots of users before consumers use proper safeguards. I would like to think that we can get ahead of that through education and ensure that people have the right security controls on devices, but I think it’s going to take a severe event for that reality to take hold.” McAfee and Intel are doing their best to head off any such potential disaster with a broad-ranging communication campaign. “We’re working with industry media such as CNET, PC Magazine, and PC World to help people understand some of the risks associated with protecting devices other than PCs,” said Davis. “We’re also working with Intel on a consumer education awareness program, reaching out to bloggers and other social media, so it’s a multi-touch program. We’re trying to use every possible method to get the word out.”

3www2.dcsec.uni-hannover.de/files/ android/p50-fahl.pdf and www.bbc.co.uk/ news/technology-20025973

Intel® Software Adrenaline 21 Powering Creative, Social, and Emotional Experiences with Intel® Technology The Creators Project pairs artists with Intel Labs researchers to design the interactive installation #CreatorsLive

By Julia ypically, the researchers analyzing the current technological Through a partnership facilitated by and engineers working landscape and anticipating the future The Creators Project—Intel and Vice’s Kaganskiy at Intel’s many lab needs of consumers and businesses alike, global arts initiative—Carmean has facilities are thinking imagining solutions to problems as yet been collaborating with Social Print about the future of unforeseen. But rarely, if ever, are they Studios on an art installation that has computer interfaces, making art based on their research. been traveling the world as part of The how to design a Yet that’s exactly what Doug Creators Project’s cultural event series, more powerful Carmean, Intel Fellow and director of visiting , Paris, San Francisco, São processor chip, or how to simplify the Efficient Computing Lab at Intel Paulo, and Seoul. The project, called Thuman-computer interaction. They’re Labs, has been doing for the past year. #CreatorsLive, aggregates real-time

Intel® Software Adrenaline 22 “At Intel Labs we strive to reinvent Instagram* photos from the events and minds and new research from Intel allows visitors to interact with them in Labs. In April 2012, Margaret Morris, a the experiences people have two gesture-based ways. On a plain wall senior researcher with Intel Labs, joined that was turned into a touch-sensitive the team. Morris, a clinical psychologist with technology. We do this by surface, they used a Microsoft Kinect* who studies emerging technologies and to track visitors’ movements through the influences future product directions, studying people’s lifestyles— installation space, and they shuffled the saw an opportunity for the installation photo display based on users’ motions to promote interpersonal connectedness current use of technology, their and gestures. by adding an emotional layer. The result is a beautiful, intuitive, “We wanted to get beyond thumbs aspirations and challenges—and highly social installation that artfully up/thumbs down exchanges to integrates research exploring visual emotionally rich dialogue and play,” creating new capabilities and computing experiences and the explained Morris. “The emotional layer continuous flow of geo-located social that we developed has a closed loop of interfaces that we expect will photos, which Carmean and his team emotional classification via sentiment at Intel Labs have been conducting for analysis and self-expression. We capture be transformative.” the past several years. #CreatorsLive the feelings people have when taking made its debut at The Creators Project: and posting photos and invite people —Margaret Morris, Senior Researcher, Intel Labs San Francisco event at Fort Mason in to express how photos make them March 2012 where it was experienced feel as they are viewing them in the by thousands of visitors who were installation.” delighted to see their Instagram The emotional layer helps paint a snapshots, tagged with the hashtag picture of the collective mood and #Creators, become instantaneously emotional experience of each respective integrated into an artwork in the main stop on The Creators Project global tour. exhibition hall. Morris and Carmean plan to continue ABOVE LEFT Photograph by Pierre Emanuel Rastoin. Since its debut, #CreatorsLive has developing the project further in 2013 ABOVE RIGHT Photograph by After1201 continued to evolve, fueled by new by experimenting with the use of text, (www.after1201.com/art_main.html)

Intel® Software Adrenaline 23 color, and sound, as well as creating product development, but not so much algorithms allowed the depth cameras an online component that will live on in artistic installations. Together we saw to be positioned at any orientation TheCreatorsProject.com to complement our complementary strengths and how without interference. the physical installation. we could bring those together. It was Doug Carmean and Margaret Morris like a super complementary, highly- ISA: Did you encounter any took a break from their work to offer motivated collaboration, with Social Print surprising design opportunities insights on “enlivening” technology providing good inspiration for the art side along the way? How did you during this recent interview. and my team with this strong technical address these when they presented foundation, wanting to collaborate and themselves? Intel® Software Adrenaline (ISA): make it something useful. Morris: This has been a process of What has it been like for you, as an constant design iteration. Early on we engineer, to collaborate with artists ISA: What were your design goals realized that we needed to integrate the on #CreatorsLive? with #CreatorsLive? technology with the applications people Doug Carmean: It has been truly Margaret Morris: To break down already love, such as Instagram. We’ve inspirational, providing philosophical the boundaries between people and altered the interface over time based on direction for research and products computing and to “enliven” technology. how people were using it and pushing that will influence Intel’s future. This We want to engage people while they its limits. For example, we noticed experience has pulled me well outside of are using the installation and to capture people peeking behind the scenes at the the box, beyond my comfort zone and the collective vibe of the different computers that drove the installation, inspired me to think differently. Creators events over the world. especially in Beijing, and so we decided The specific project with Social Print to make this information (such as the Studios has turned out to be a nearly ISA: What design challenges and infrared images of people approaching perfect marriage. Ben Lotan from opportunities did you encounter the projection) part of the installation. Social Print Studios has a Masters in along the way? How did you This made the installation more alive Fine Arts, and has a nice perspective address them? and more interactive. People like to see for aesthetic and art quality. He’s not as Morris: A key feature of this system is themselves in the art, as it is forming. encumbered by technical details or by its ability to transform any surface into the way engineers typically approach an interactive surface. The surfaces we ISA: How does this project integrate development problems. Likewise, used at Creators events were typically or build on research that you’re my team had the formal training in concrete walls in large warehouses. doing in Intel Labs? hardware and software development. In many cases, the walls were neither Morris: At Intel Labs we strive to We come from doing everything from flat, nor completely smooth, making reinvent technology and the experiences building processors that are shipped interactivity challenging. To create people have with technology. We do to hundreds of millions of units to a large interactive surface we used this by studying people’s lifestyles— BELOW Photograph by developing video games. We’ve got projectors and multiple depth cameras, current use of technology, their Zhuang yan. this really formal background of doing specifically the Microsoft Kinect. Our aspirations, and challenges—and by creating new capabilities and interfaces that we expect will be transformative. In my research, I explore how emerging technologies can promote emotional expression and connection. #Creators Live has shown us a variety of ways that people express themselves, relate to others, and participate in art. By sharing their own images and responding to other images in the installation, a huge number of people became creators, shaping the recording of these events.

ISA: How did adding the emotional component alter the user experience? What new design challenges did this present? Morris: The collection of photos in #CreatorsLive now embodies the emotional experience of Creators events around the world. Participants have been extremely creative in how they use these tools to represent mixed feelings and complicated situations, to visualize

24 Intel® Software Adrenaline Intel® Software Adrenaline 24 emotional associations among photos, and to represent themselves as part of the social experience. One of the major design challenges is creating an intuitive, playful interface for emotional expression. We want to invite emotional expression without using instruction. We are using a spatial model of emotion, and exploring color, text, and music as ways of representing emotional states in this model. So far it seems that most people, even young kids, seem to get into this mode of self-expression. We’ve been collaborating closely with visual artists as well as composer Mira Calix, who developed Sacred Heart for the Creators’ San Francisco event. The ability to express emotional responses to photos with sound as well as color has made the installation far more intuitive and engaging. Our next steps include bringing this capture of collective emotional events online and using these emotional responses to help people discover new art and people. We are working with The Creators Project on these and a variety of other exciting directions. think about computers and devices an emotional complexity that isn’t ISA: What do you think engineers as supercomputers that are organized possible in today’s devices and social ABOVE Photograph by have to gain from collaborating in very specific ways. The integration media platforms. Jason Hernandez. with artists? of the artist into the mix makes it so Carmean: The artists get engineers that computers and devices fit well ISA: What are the implications for to think differently as they approach culturally, have an aesthetic that’s other developers trying to do the the world from a creative perspective pleasing, and have an entertainment same thing? that is largely absent of technical value. I think that is socially rewarding, Morris: Developers need to integrate constraints. They force us to think of because using a computer is an artists into their design teams very early design in a simplified, natural way. experience people enjoy. My mother in the design process. The artists will Every time we do an interface, I have a and my wife enjoy using computers influence all aspects of development, tendency from my technical background that we build. From a business point from obvious design tradeoffs to the to include buttons, menus, drop-downs, of view, it makes sense because essential approach. The process needs to words, and instructions. I think the way now we’re opening up these areas be agile with rapid iterations that allow [artists approach design] is based on the where technology previously wasn’t artists to inject ideas at many points. notion that you should be able to do this relevant—the arts, for example. We without any instructions or words. If you can have an impact culturally, and pull look at what we attempted to do with that back to something that is good #Creators Live, the only thing we put on for the business as well. It’s incredibly ABOUT THE AUTHOR the display was just the #Creators, and important because it has a high social Julia Kaganskiy is global editor at The the words “Instagram” and “Twitter,” benefit as well as a tremendous Creators Project, an arts and technology and from that, it was amazing. We had business opportunity. It’s exciting for initiative founded by Intel and Vice. thousands of people pick up on what those prospects. The Creators Project supports visionary that was all about. artists across multiple disciplines who ISA: Do you feel like you pushed are using technology to push the ISA: How important is this exchange the “edge” of computing? boundaries of creative expression and between artists and engineers? Morris: Yes, we pushed social features an international event series, Carmean: I think it’s super important computing to be truly social and a web documentary series, an arts because it’s rethinking the way affective computing to stretch from production studio, and an editorial hub on technology gets integrated into our emotional recognition to emotional TheCreatorsProject.com. lives and culture in general. Computer expression. We saw people using the architects and engineers tend to installation to express themselves with

Intel® Software Adrenaline 25 Perceptual Computing and the Future of UI Designing for intuitive human-computer interaction . . . naturally

he availability of touch devices and Reaching beyond the use of a touch-enabled screen, mouse, and keyboard, simple communications protocols are perceptual computing steps into the sensory world of voice commands, gesture control, and facial recognition where, for example, computers can understand our shifting the way we interact with our voices—not only from a set of specific commands—but also through our tone and computing devices. At the same time, phraseology. It also means 3D-object recognition, and hand and finger tracking at T close range. The technologies that enable such interpretation will transform the the introduction of faster hardware running at human-computer interaction. lower power levels is improving and easing the interface hurdles of modern computing tasks. Engineering Challenges for a New World Perceptual computing—the next big wave of technology—is about to hit, bringing with Today, most users communicate with their computers using the familiar keyboard and mouse, which offer a direct and recognizable collection of input for computers and it the promise of very engaging computing present simple data points for the software environment to evaluate. When a user experiences. The Intel® Perceptual Computing presses a key or clicks a mouse button, little about those actions can be misconstrued or misinterpreted. However, these actions limit users to a single interface. Software Development Kit (SDK) and Intel’s work Developers are now working to make computers as cognitive about their with Nuance and other companies are helping to surroundings as we are (or at least as aware as we should be) so they can process much of the information around them and arrive at a logical conclusion based on a turn this promise into a reality. user’s intent. Extracting information from the environment will include data points

By Ryan Shrout

Intel® Software Adrenaline 26 such as the directionality of the voice PCs any time soon. Perceptual computing Computing SDK supports a wide range (for example, is the user talking to aims instead to create new modalities of interaction types and will facilitate the computer or to a friend nearby?), that redefine computing interactions. other software developers’ many the ambient background noise, integration methods. Close-range facial recognition for automatic user tracking of fingers will allow developers selection (and security), 3D maps of The Intel® Perceptual to define usages based on a person’s the environment for object and gesture Computing SDK hand for augmented reality (grasping an recognition, and more. object in 3D space) or for recognizing To reach that goal, many important In October 2012 Intel introduced a static and dynamic hand signals. engineering tasks must be addressed, comprehensive SDK that focuses on Object tracking will allow developers starting with the integration of new and several aspects of perceptual computing, to combine images from the camera improved sensors on PCs, Ultrabook™ including facial recognition, voice in real-time with depth data so that devices, tablets, and smartphones. commands, and gestures. The SDK, “markerless” real-world objects can Cameras that can evaluate depth, which includes manuals, code samples, be used in virtual experiences. (See the microphones that understand directional algorithms, example applications, and “Now See This” article on augmented audio, and touchpads with pressure tutorials, helps developers integrate reality in this magazine.) sensitivity need to be standardized, perceptual computing interfaces in as To handle face recognition and miniaturized, and implemented simple a way as possible. Intel has always analysis, the SDK includes seven-point across the ecosystem. For perceptual been a proponent of improved software landmark detection and “attribution” computing to take a firm hold, devices development; in this case, they found detection including smiles, blinks, and must be equipped with the next level of that a combination of sensor technology even a user’s age. Finally, the SDK’s intelligence and capabilities. and hardware computing capability speech-recognition capabilities permit Advances in environment awareness created the perfect opportunity to voice command and controls, as well as are becoming enabled by higher promote perceptual computing. dictation and text-to-speech analysis. performance computing platforms, The Intel Perceptual Computing SDK Anil Nanduri, director of products and including the 3rd generation Intel® supports several of the most popular solutions in the Perceptual Computing Core™ processor family found in human-to-computer communication Group at Intel, sees the company’s Ultrabook devices. Intel engineers modalities and focuses on those that development and support of the Intel have developed improved process interact with a user in the 6-inch to 3-foot Perceptual Computing SDK pushing the technology and CPUs that can maintain range of the device. While the SDK will industry forward. “We are about driving a real-time connection with different work with many platforms, it targets the natural user-interaction computing communication interfaces and can Ultrabook devices, clamshell notebooks, capabilities and working with the provide a high level of user experience. and tablets with the use of embedded ecosystem for continued advancement. Although many hardware challenges microphones and add-on gesture We believe the SDK will drive the ecosystem in helping bring up new human-computer interface experiences.” The SDK is unique and is the first to “We believe the SDK will drive address and combine several perceptual computing technologies, the result of the ecosystem in helping Intel’s collaboration with other industry leaders. Total Immersion built the bring up new human-computer computer- tools, Nuance provided the speech and voice components, and interface experiences.” SoftKinetic developed the depth-tracking component. Intel combined these tools — Anil Nanduri, Director of Products and Solutions into the SDK and linked them in such in the Intel Perceptual Computing Group a way that developers can use them easily and use them simultaneously when their applications require it. The SDK additionally includes a program for putting Creative Interactive Gesture* remain—including how to address recognizing cameras. (Systems with high- cameras into the hands of developers. enormous data sets and further quality microphones and webcams with The gaming industry was an early miniaturize sensors—Moore’s Law and depth perception will soon be universally adopter of motion tracking and Intel will continue to unlock the power adopted; however, they’re not yet at gesture control. Today, the SDK helps of perceptual computing. the miniaturized level required for small PC developers learn how to use and Perceptual computing is not about device implementation.) integrate these new interface changing and remapping current Combining the efforts of Intel’s technologies in a simple and interfaces, so don’t expect the keyboard internal software teams and the work straightforward way. Developers will and mouse to vanish from the world of of industry leaders, the Intel Perceptual be able to develop applications in the

Intel® Software Adrenaline 27 world of education, business, 3D to the development platform, providing Innovation and Perceptual modeling, 3D printing, and more. Nuance an audio file and getting a basic text file result of the recognized Computing Contest For more information on the SDK, please terms. The application can then parse visit: intel.com/software/perceptual the result, using it in several ways. The ntel created a USD 1 million innovation contest to feature the goal is to make the use of voice-control best examples of what’s possible with the Intel® Perceptual technology simple and intuitive for Computing Software Development Kit. This contest invites Nuance Dragon developers to use. Idevelopers to be wildly creative with human-computer Assistant*: A Case Study in As both Nuance’s technology and the interaction designs. The ecosystem has many creative ideas for Perceptual Computing Intel Perceptual Computing SDK evolve, new interface technologies, and Intel is hoping to channel them expect voice recognition to expand and into a public forum of collaboration. As with any new computing Voice-control technology is one become more refined, too. The next big technology, Intel is looking for the handful of applications that will aspect of perceptual computing that push will come in the form of natural- pop out of the screen, impress new consumers, and draw them into is already experiencing significant language processing and its requirement the scaling benefits of perceptual computing. To learn more about progress. Nuance, famous for its Dragon for more processing horsepower and the contest, see: www.intel.com/software/perceptual Naturally Speaking voice-recognition much larger, cloud-based databases. software, helped guide and facilitate Natural-language analysis will allow implementation of the SDK in the speech computers to not only understand thanks to a surge of tools and computing and voice capacities for Dragon Assistant. commands but also to understand a power, dubbed by Nanduri as, “an Nuance Dragon Assistant software will speaker’s intent, an intensely more innovation hockey stick.” integrate with Ultrabook devices to complex problem. Instead of being Intel’s support and creation of the enable voice commands spanning several restricted to specific commands, natural Intel Perceptual Computing SDK shows a applications, including Media Player*, language will allow users to, for example, dedication to the expansion of computing Facebook*, Twitter*, and Web browsers. say, “I need to find a new lawn chair,” technology. Because Intel, and companies This early implementation allows users and then see a search result in their such as Nuance, Total Immersion, and to speak a command to the computer. favorite shopping application. SoftKinect, created the SDK to be For example, after a user says, “Search powerful and easy to use, application Amazon for lawn chairs,” the Web developers in all areas of expertise will be browser opens, locates the Amazon.com Multi-modal Interaction able to integrate and experiment with site, and searches on the phrase “lawn and the Future of voice and gesture technology. chairs.” Sharing that result or a specific Perceptual Computing The combination of voice, facial URL with Facebook friends or Twitter recognition, and gesture will truly followers is also a simple phrase away: The modalities of voice, facial recognition, revolutionize the human-computer “Share this page on Facebook.” and gesture are important. But the true interface and help remove many of the Peter Mahoney, chief marketing power and potential for perceptual computing boundaries today. Users of all officer at Nuance, explained to Intel® computing reside in the ability to combine skill types and knowledge levels will be Software Adrenaline that, “Voice these interfaces and sensors, and to able to effectively and efficiently interact recognition is an extremely complex increase the amount of data accessible with their devices to extract information task—you must handle many different to the computer (from the user); and and transparently get the results they things, from audio, to voice models, to to increase the amount of information want. The power and potential of integrating with apps. We tried to make the computer can receive at one time. perceptual computing are now beginning the tasks available at fairly high-level Imagine a computer that can “see” if you to take hold. In the coming years, watch chunks to help make the developer’s are looking away from the screen while for exciting developments that will job of integration easier.” With more talking to determine whether it should transform the way we interact and use power available, Nuance has greatly interpret your voice as a command or as our computers and mobile devices. improved both the speed and accuracy ambient noise. of voice recognition by using multiple A natural interface will allow an cores for better efficiency. That efficiency understanding of true intent, which is becoming more important for Nuance can be acted upon in a fluid manner. ABOUT THE AUTHOR and the Intel Perceptual Computing Many visionaries believe that extensive A contributing writer, roving reporter, SDK as users increasingly expect longer perceptual computing is an attainable podcast host, and blogger for the popular battery life from their mobile devices. goal in the near future, and the Intel technology site PC Perspective, Ryan As part of the SDK, Nuance’s Perceptual Computing SDK will help Shrout researches and writes product technology will be made available to developers push forward toward reviews for today’s leading-edge hardware developers. They can use it to add that goal. Much like the way touch and software products. When he’s not and expand on the number of voice- technology on mobile devices quickly tracking down the pending changes to the controlled applications on Microsoft gained momentum, wide-scale multi- various CPU and compute architectures, Windows* and Intel® platforms. modal perceptual computing is likely to Ryan is on tap to assist the RH+M3 group Software developers can pass nearly all be available soon. The ecosystem has when the need for a hardcore computer- of the audio processing and handling evolved rapidly over the last 10 years, geek writer arises.

Intel® Software Adrenaline 28 Game Developers Get in Touch with Ultrabook™ Devices

By John Gaudiosi

he PC gaming space is rapidly evolving. With an influx of new free-to- play gaming experiences attracting more mainstream gaming audiences and crowd-funding sites such as Kickstarter, new opportunities are opening up for game developers. The PC has never been a hotter game system. And Intel-inspired Ultrabook™ devices are leading the way in delivering powerful and portable processing power. According to GBI Research,1 Ultrabook device sales are set to explode in the next five years, making up 47 percent of annual notebook sales by 2016. According to the firm’s latest research, 1.3 million Ultrabook devices

1www.gbiresearch.com/Report.aspx?ID=Ultrabooks-Market-to-2016-Financial-and-Technological-Support-from-Intel-T Corporation-Coupled-with-Demand-from-Business-Users-Segment-Will-Drive-Growth&companyID=jpr Intel® Software Adrenaline 29 Game Developers “A lot of gamers have multiple PCs and devices. If they want the best Get in Touch with experience, they’ll go for a desktop PC with high- end processor and a big ™ monitor. But if they want Ultrabook Devices to travel and play mobile, the Ultrabook™ device is really one of the best approaches to mobile game playing.”

— Cedric Le Dressay, Co-founder, Eugen Systems

were sold last year, but thanks to iterations of key franchises to take “Touch-enabled screens let game technological advances and a drop advantage of the new capabilities that developers connect better with users in in component prices, this number is the Ultrabook device introduces to a more direct way,” said Marc Meyer, expected to reach 148.7 million by 2016, interactivity, including touch-screen. user-interface lead of Civilization V*: at a compound annual growth rate of “The touch controllers in the Ultrabook Gods & Kings at Firaxis Games. “By 109 percent. reference design were light years ahead changing how you scroll the map in That’s good news for game of any touch screens we could find on Civilization V, dragging the world developers, who are already taking the market,” said Steve Myers, executive around in-screen becomes very visceral advantage of the latest technology vice president and executive producer for the user. We’re always looking for built into these lightweight, portable at iRacing. “Intel enabled us to take full opportunities to help gamers connect gaming machines. Game studios such advantage of the touch interface without with the game, and we get more of as iRacing, Firaxis Games, and Eugen compromising for the sake of hardware these opportunities with touch.” Systems are already creating new that is not * 8 ready.”

Intel® Software Adrenaline 30 Cedric Le Dressay, co-founder of which made racing simulations for While racing is an international sport, Eugen Systems, has also seen the multi- almost 20 years, including the bestselling it’s divided among different audiences touch functionality of the Ultrabook NASCAR Racing* PC games and Grand and countries. For example, NASCAR device impact the real-time strategy Prix Legends*. Today, races are happening has a huge North American fan base, (RTS) game genre. The developer 24/7 in over 100 countries with a robust but the international customer base of Wargame*: European Escalation subscriber base of racing enthusiasts. is more interested in Formula 1 (F1). explained that multi-touch helps The members of the core Because international customers wanted improve the user interface. He believes development team at iRacing all worked to race an authentic F1 car, iRacing multi-touch will ultimately open up the at Papyrus, which has built up a decade- partnered with the Williams F1 Team and creativity of many game makers, resulting plus development rhythm with its 40 signed Interlagos (Brazil), Spa (Belgium), in games that are easier to interact with employees. In addition, many studio Silverstone (UK), and Montreal (Canada) and ultimately more fun to play. members have raced in the real world, F1 tracks. American gamers will be able With new Ultrabook devices featuring which can only help heighten the virtual to race on every NASCAR Cup track by this touch functionality now flooding experience that gamers can engage in 2013 (iRacing is currently building the the market, Intel is working closely with through the online games. That’s also final two virtual tracks). The game maker key developers to ensure that gamers likely a reason that many of NASCAR’s is also incrementally launching a new have the most immersive experience top drivers, including Dale Earnhardt, team mode that will allow customers to possible when exploring these virtual Jr.; Tony Stewart; and Travis Pastrana, link up, where one is driving the car and worlds. iRacing, Firaxis Games, and spend some of their free time playing the other is serving as the live spotter. Eugen Systems in particular have spent the game (see www.iracing.com/ Subscribers will soon be able to race in months of development time working testimonials). the legendary Lotus 49 F1 car and take in collaboration with Intel to bring touch “Having developers interested in auto to additional tracks such as Oran Park to new iterations of the TBS game racing has been a big advantage to our in Australia. expansion Civilization V: Gods & Kings, development cycle,” said Myers. “When Just like the finely tuned vehicles on the ultra-realistic racing simulation you are passionate about something, real race tracks, racing simulations rely iRacing.com, and the Cold War RTS you naturally put the extra effort on fast processing power to realistically Wargame: European Escalation. into what you are doing so it is done replicate that experience and to right. In this space, we have a unique allow virtual drivers to live vicariously development model; we have four through the game. Myers said the iRacing: feel the speed targeted release dates per year in which Intel® HD Graphics engine allows the we plan major service and software team to provide desktop performance iRacing was founded in 2004 with the updates. This focuses our development on an ultra-light platform. The new goal of creating an exceptionally realistic team on 12-week windows to get low-latency touch sensor technology online racing simulation service that features and updates ready to deploy removes the barrier to touch-enabled racers and race fans alike could join and to our members. Certain projects can driving. He said Intel has worked closely enjoy on their home PCs. The iRacing take longer than 12 weeks to develop, with the studio to help optimize its founders entered the market with a long but we try to strike a balance on short- application and validate it on a broad history in the racing simulation space. and long-term projects spread among range of Intel® hardware. Intel also Co-founder Dave Kaemmer was also the the developers so we have compelling has provided detailed support for co-founder of Papyrus Design Group, releases every three months.” their touch hardware interface. While Myers used Intel power throughout the development of this touch functionality, he said the biggest benefit was having access to the Intel-inspired Ultrabook device reference hardware. Without that, he said this project would never have gotten off the ground. “Any user with a touch-enabled device can enjoy the iRacing experience without any additional investment in hardware,” said Myers. “Touch also provides an intuitive interface to our simulation, without forcing the users to familiarize themselves with new hardware. Touch easily replaces the traditional steering wheel and pedal set and allows you to rapidly make pit stop adjustments to your car without reaching for the keyboard.”

31 Intel® Software Adrenaline Intel® Software Adrenaline 31 The new touch experience for iRacing is just the beginning of how new technology will add to the realism of the “Any user with a touch-enabled device can enjoy the simulation. In the future, Myers believes gamers will be able to manipulate their iRacing experience without any additional investment in world merely by touching objects and applying gestures to them. Of course, hardware. Touch also provides an intuitive interface to the challenge is designing a small subset of actions that represent the core our simulation, without forcing the users to familiarize of what the game is about, without overwhelming the user with a myriad of themselves with a lot of new hardware. Touch easily touch gestures and interfaces. Tilt sensor technology would be a natural second replaces the traditional steering wheel and pedal set and step in this process. This would allow players to steer a car simply by rotating allows you to rapidly make pit stop adjustments to your their laptop or tablet device as if holding a steering wheel. Integrated facial-tracking car without reaching for the keyboard.” cameras would also open up a new dimension, allowing players to check out — Steve Myers, Executive Vice President and Executive Producer, iRacing their world simply by moving their head. Additionally, secondary displays built into the track-pad or keyboard would allow developers to provide even more information back to the users. “Tilt and touch reduce the barriers to entry,” said Myers, “both by reducing engineers worked on the touch project. Marc Meyer, user-interface lead the need for additional hardware, and The expansion pack introduces nine on Civilization V at Firaxis, believes by simplifying the interfaces so that new civilizations, each ruled by a new the increase in power-per-watt is new customers don’t have as much to leader; nine new wonders; three original extremely important because it allows learn in order to enjoy the simulation. scenarios involving religion in the more detailed graphics to grace the In addition, they both provide a fun medieval period, the fall of Rome, and a screen. The team worked with tools alternative to a more traditional control Victorian steampunk story; and dozens such as the Intel® Threading Building interface. Younger generations who are of new units, buildings, technologies, Blocks as its job scheduler system, growing up in a touch-enabled world and resources. Religion plays a big role; Intel® VTune™ Amplifier, and Intel® will also find themselves at home more players can use missionaries or Great Graphics Performance Analyzers to quickly in iRacing.” Prophets to spread custom religions. help increase the game’s speed from Naval battles are divided into two 7 frames-per-second (fps) to 27 fps. choices: melee and ranged attacks, In addition, as more input options are Firaxis: Playing God which changes up the strategy involved opened up through the Ultrabook in global domination. There’s also an device, developers have more options to Firaxis Games was founded by Sid Meier enhanced diplomacy and espionage change the interaction the user has with back in 1996 with the mission statement level of gameplay, which kicks into the gameplay. Meyer added that touch to “build games that stand the test of high gear during the Renaissance lets gamers immediately interact with time.” The studio has made many TBS with clandestine operations. And two onscreen characters without the need to and RTS games over the years, including new city-state types, Mercantile and lug around a gaming mouse. Alpha Centauri*, Pirates!*, Gettysburg*, Religious, have been incorporated into During the development process, Railroads!*, and SimGolf*. But the the expanded quest system to further as Firaxis worked closely with Intel developers are best known for what the narrative of the game. engineers, they knew they were on to has become one of the longest-running “Every advance in technology something great in QA. Testers who and bestselling TBS franchises in the expands the possibilities within the played the Ultrabook device touch world today–Civilization. Now owned market. This in turn enables us to version of the game preferred it to all by 2K Games, the studio most recently execute on new and unique ideas which other versions of the game. Touch also released Civilization V: Gods & Kings to were not previously possible,” said Tim made Civilization V an even better travel PC gamers. The expansion pack was Kipp, systems lead on Civilization V game because of the intuitive gameplay designed from the ground up to take at Firaxis. “The Ultrabook is giving us interaction. The Ultrabook device also full advantage of the latest Ultrabook a strong unified platform full of new brings the TBS genre, which is typically technology, including touch. potential that is allowing us to explore a more hardcore game, to a more While a larger team worked on the technical and gameplay experiences we mainstream audience that can play the base game and expansion pack across would otherwise not have considered.” touch version on the sofa or on a plane. all platforms, a smaller team of four

Intel® Software Adrenaline 32 constraints on the designer, and you can work on implementing new capabilities such as voice recognition, multi-touch, and utilizing the accelerometer.” “Civilization V is a very information- heavy game, and we rely on tool-tips to convey a lot of information to the user,” added Meyer. “The challenge was finding a way to keep tool-tips working while still providing the drag features people expect from a touch interface. We began by running through all of the possibilities, trying different input mechanisms and learning how they each felt. In the end, we found that the two-finger drag worked the best. We then found a big win with the three-finger Escape-key shortcut and the tear-off unit movement… that’s when things started coming together.”

Eugen Systems: Making the Cold War Hot “The more features Intel can give us, the more Eugen Systems was founded by brothers creative we can be with these games. Having sensor Alexis and Cedric Le Dressay in 1998, specializing in strategy from the start. technology built into the environment opens things up A team of 50 has spent the past few years creating Wargame: European creatively. Having that breadth of capabilities loosens Escalation, which launched in February 2012. The team uses an improved the constraints on the designer, and you can work on version of the R.U.S.E. IRISZOOM* engine, which it developed a few years implementing new capabilities like voice recognition, ago for the Ubisoft strategy game. With this technology, gamers can explore multi-touch, and utilizing the accelerometer.” the real-time strategy (RTS) with huge maps up to 150 square kilometers in —Tim Kipp, System Lead on Civilization V, Firaxis Games size. Within these maps, up to 100 million scenery objects can be displayed, breathing life into a realistic playing field on which to relive the Cold War. Gameplay allows players to zoom in and “Working with Intel was like having integrated graphics five years ago versus out, in an instant, going from a large an offsite team,” said Kipp. “The Intel where things are today is amazing. commander’s view to an on-the-ground engineers were easy to work with, and This evolution of new technology goes view in the thick of the battle. Players Intel was very open about providing hand-in-hand with increased customer can also lock a camera onto any one of the information we needed. Intel had expectations. Meyer said people who the 361 ground-based historical units in a driver team onsite to help us get own an Ultrabook device expect a game the game using the Track Cam, which through the optimization passes. We platform with the latest integrated chips, offers a unique perspective in the midst couldn’t have done this game without as well as the power of solid-state drives of combat. their help. The great thing about (SSDs), to help deliver on this promise. Wargame allows players to take this process was that we optimized “Touch changes the way you scroll control of Warsaw Pact members the game for all platforms, not just the map; dragging the world around (Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Ultrabook devices, so all users ultimately on the screen becomes very visceral for France, NATO countries, Poland, benefited from our development on the the user,” said Kipp. “The more features Soviet Union, United Kingdom, United Ultrabook. It’s now directly integrated Intel can give us, the more creative we States, and West Germany). Cedric into our process moving forward.” can be with these games. Having sensor Le Dressay said that his team worked Firaxis was also able to benefit from technology built into the environment closely with Intel to enhance the other advances in Intel® technology. opens things up creatively. Having that experience for players engaged in Meyer said the difference between breadth of capabilities loosens the battle on Ultrabook devices.

Intel® Software Adrenaline 33 “To render strategy units and zoom in and out, having the ability to teleport what you see every second requires a lot of optimization,” said Le Dressay. “We’ve been working on our own engine since 1998, and that’s why we have such a strong technology background. Our players want to feel like they’re in charge of a battlefield as a commander and they’re asking for more realism. They want larger, more realistic maps. They want military forces that look like what we see in movies. To satisfy these expectations, we worked with Intel to bring the best gaming experience possible to Ultrabook devices.” When Eugen was developing R.U.S.E. for the PC, Xbox* 360, and PlayStation* 3, Le Dressay knew that multi-core programming was the key to success. The team has been improving its engine to best take advantage of the Intel® multi- core processors that are hitting the market with the Ultrabook and other devices. “We’ve been working closely with Intel engineers to improve performance on Wargame,” said Le Dressay. “We’ve been able to improve the game on Intel® HD Graphics and across all platforms. The game is now running faster six months after release than it did at launch. We’re very happy with our collaboration with Intel because it has helps developers create a great user improved the user experience.” experience, leading to excellent games. Eugen has spent the past few months The graphical chipset has more power working with Intel to optimize Wargame when compared to that of previous for Ultrabook devices, using the latest generations; and when coupled with touch-screen enabled capabilities. touch, RTS game controls are literally at The studio actually began working on your fingertips.” About the Author multi-touch two years ago, when the John Gaudiosi has been covering video technology was limited by two cameras. games for nearly 20 years for media With the introduction of touch to the Summary outlets such as The Washington Post, mainstream through sensor technology CNET, Wired magazine, and CBS.com. on Ultrabook devices, Le Dressay The work being done by these three He has focused on the convergence of believes the time is right to enhance game studios presents a sampling entertainment and video games for various gameplay experiences with quicker RTS of what’s happening behind the publications, including Video Business, interactions that incorporate multiple- scenes to ensure that the Ultrabook Home Media magazine, The Hollywood finger simultaneous controls. device gaming platform delivers Reporter and Variety. He currently serves “Today’s touch technology enhances unique experiences not possible on as editor-in-chief of Gamerlive.tv and is a the gameplay experience by allowing other platforms. While touch is a key freelance game columnist for Reuters and players to live the dream of being a focal point in this new generation of RH+M3, in addition to writing for print battlefield commander,” said Le Dressay. specially-optimized games, this sensor and online publications, such as GamePro “A lot of gamers have multiple PCs and technology is only a small part of magazine, Official PlayStation magazine, devices. If they want the best experience, what will be possible in high-powered Entertainment Weekly, DasGamer.com, AOL they’ll go for a desktop PC with a high- mobile gaming moving forward. These Games, and FaceoffGames.com. end processor and a large monitor. But if games give consumers, especially they want to travel and play mobile, the gamers, another reason to invest in an Ultrabook device is really one of the best Ultrabook device. approaches to mobile game playing. The Ultrabook has a great processor, which

Intel® Software Adrenaline 34 Touch Technology Rocks the Computing Continuum Look to the future to make today’s killer app

By Garret here’s no “chicken and egg” best minds from across the spectrum of touch-based apps that are easy to use dilemma in technology—the software programming: and enjoy, regardless of the form factor Romaine rule has always been for they’re found on. They demonstrate how Thardware to come first, then • Nest* is a family productivity tool that developers can take their products in new watch as software engineers connect gives parents and children the ability and exciting directions by adapting to the the dots. That paradigm is on full to synch calendars, share lists, and rapidly-changing PC environment. display with touch-enabled Ultrabook™ develop a family message board that Touch-screen-enabled Ultrabook devices hitting the shelves in ever- everyone can access remotely. devices and the new All-in-One devices increasing numbers. App developers are adding richness and depth to the around the globe are rushing to • Krita* is an open-source drawing and entire compute continuum, and both optimize their products for the rich painting app that will soon have touch Nest and Krita are shining examples sensor technology now available in all capability to make it even easier to use. of just how revolutionary these new shapes and flavors. technologies could become. Two products show vividly how Intel’s Together, these two products provide a latest PC form factor is attracting the glimpse into the growing effort to create

Intel® Software Adrenaline 35 Nest: The New Family and Razorfish, while his co-founder, collaboration platform for today’s busy Bulletin Board Steve McPherson, is an expert in cloud families. When the All-in-One team came computing and big data. Together they to us and asked for software that took Nest is a touch-enabled application for have a solid background in both front- advantage of embedded sensors and busy families that helps simplify and end concepting, design, and prototype high-definition screens, we were excited. enhance daily life. Sitting at the hub development that enable elegant The idea of a family collaboration tool of family interactions, Nest enables user experiences, and in the back-end on the All-in-One that made lives better activities such as grocery shopping and systems, data, and analytics that enable was a great combination and the perfect list synching on the go, coordination of scalable services and capabilities such as starting point to showcase broader, calendars and activities while traveling, contextual recommendations for families. mobile scenarios.” and remote video messaging into the The team had long talked about product The All-in-One design has been family message board. It’s perfect for a ideas and kept coming back to family popular with consumers because it has new All-in-One PC set up in the kitchen collaboration and activity planning. its own unique place and functionality— as an old-fashioned whiteboard on “I have school-age kids, and most especially with a touch-enabled screen. steroids, or for a tablet or Ultrabook of my friends are in the same stage of Rosoff said his team of developers device in the home or on the go. life. Like us, they run around trying to and Intel colleagues were instantly Jonathan Rosoff is the CEO and coordinate their families’ schedules, meet enthusiastic about the way the device co-founder of Current, which is the up with friends, and stay in touch with could bring families together and help developer of the Nest Organizer. He has the people that matter most to them. So keep them more connected. “There’s over 20 years of experience with digital this has long been an area we wanted been a tremendous amount of buzz marketing at companies such as Digitas to explore. We wanted to make a family on our team. People immediately

Intel® Software Adrenaline 36 took a look at possible use cases and build was done in HTML5 and Sencha pencil prototyping. They began by experiences, and they loved it. We got Touch*, which gave us elegant touch measuring an All-in-One device with lots of enthusiastic feedback, such as ‘It controls and styling without having a 24-inch screen, duplicating it on a feels like the kitchen calendar, but with to interact with the Windows touch whiteboard, and placing paper cutouts more functionality and the ability to framework.” This meant that learning and sticky notes onto the design to access it from anywhere.’” and integrating touch controls didn’t zero in on something that people really When it comes to assistance, Rosoff require much special training. One liked. “Our first prototype was a piece pointed to starter code, white papers, challenge came in trying to make sure of paper,” Rosoff confirmed. “From and SDKs in the Intel® Developer Zone. Nest was user-friendly in a hybrid world there, we moved to wireframes and “It’s a great resource, and it’s easy to of touch and non-touch (mouse and design comps, and we tested those with find key topics,” he said. He believes keyboard) devices. people. We’re very iterative, and we that the entire app development process “We initially built Nest in Sencha created multiple working prototypes. has gotten better, from top to bottom. Touch, which works great in a pure As people walked through our designs, His team also worked with Intel in touch-enabled environment,” Rosoff they gave us great feedback. We also areas where they needed to package said. “As we learned from our AiO used contextual interviews and focus Nest for the Windows* desktop experience and moved to a world of groups to hone our design throughout environment and make it ready for Ultrabooks and other form factors the development process.” The result the Intel AppUp® center. “We’re very where there are hybrid use models, it has been extremely positive—users say pleased with our Intel relationship,” became more challenging to use the the interface feels natural and logical. Rosoff said, mentioning responsive framework. Most people like touch, but “We see a world where Nest is a engineers, eager to assist with SDKs, when inputting a lot of text, tabbing virtual hub of family activity,” Rosoff and ready to help integrate Nest into through fields, or scrolling through said. “Some of it may happen around various Intel® platforms. “It has been a calendar dates, we found that they were an All-in-One computer in the kitchen. great collaboration to date, and we look more comfortable with the traditional Some of it may happen using an forward to working with them in the mouse and keyboard interface. So we Ultrabook device in the family room, future,” he said. switched from Sencha Touch to Ext js, and and some of it may happen remotely by Nest is built in HTML5 for extensibility we’re now modifying some of the Ext js cell phone or tablet. Tomorrow it might to multiple platforms and devices, so it controls to enhance touch capabilities. be an Intel-powered refrigerator glass can seamlessly integrate calendaring, Users can still tab and scroll using a unit or a very thin slate that hangs on list management, messaging, and mouse, but we have a great experience the wall. Whatever the device, Nest is more. Rosoff said that there was initially for touch users, too.” poised to become a central point where a steep learning curve to scale the Rosoff’s team has an extensive everyone coordinates and works on team on such an ambitious HTML5 background in user-centric design. chores, lists, and appointments. We see development effort, but now it’s paying They strive to create a compelling user great value in having Nest accessible off, especially with better code re-use. experience, and they test frequently in across the compute continuum.” “We’re able to work seamlessly across the design process. In the early stages, Even more interesting ways of platforms now,” he said. “Our initial they relied on old-school paper-and- inputting information in Nest may appear over time, such as voice recognition and natural language integration. “We are exploring “We see a world where Nest is a virtual hub of family several options with Intel now, and they’re excited about embedding activity. Some of it may happen around an All-in-One these technologies,” Rosoff said. “Some will require tweaking to make computer in the kitchen. Some of it may happen using them workable in the context of an Ultrabook. For example, there’s still work ™ an Ultrabook device in the family room, and some of it to do to enable robust voice recognition when your mouth isn’t directly next to may happen remotely by cell phone or tablet. Tomorrow the microphone and there’s ambient noise. But it’s something we think we it might be an Intel-powered refrigerator glass unit can work through with Intel and their technology ecosystem partners.” or a very thin slate that hangs on the wall.” The team released the Web version of Nest in October 2012 and —Jonathan Rosoff, CEO, Current is developing phone-based apps so users can access Nest from anywhere, with any device. That’s key and cloud computing is enabling the same app to work across many different devices,

Intel® Software Adrenaline 37 sharing the same data. No longer is it painting on the computer, Rempt enough to just develop an app for a co-founded a company that gathered single platform. The Nest development open-source devotees across the team is also collaborating with Intel planet to build something he liked: on a joint roadmap and feature Krita, a popular design and painting Painting with your fingers sounds cool, integrations. “We’re working with tool. “I love working with people from but I’d advise everyone to get a stylus Intel product groups and engineers all over the world,” he said recently. or, even better, one of those conductive to figure out the technologies we can “We created the company because brushes. Screens have too much embed for future iterations,” Rosoff we believe in open, accessible data resistance to make finger painting work said. “We’ve talked about facial of every kind. I get an enormous rush well. But for transforming stuff, for recognition and ways of surfacing whenever I see the artists create cool pressing buttons and selecting items, it’s ‘smart’ recommendations in Nest art with Krita.” great, especially for zooming, panning, using Intel® APIs. There are many The legion of Krita users is growing and rotating. So we couldn’t just replace exciting things for us to consider in rapidly. For example, illustrator and art the mouse and keyboard—we added to the future.” director David Revoy (www.davidrevoy. the experience.” com) has used Krita for his concept art Rempt pays close attention to the for two Blender Open Movies, Sintel workflows of Krita users. At one point, Krita Brings Touch-based and Tears of Steel. “That really was a they recorded hours of videotape Art to Life huge push for us,” Rempt said fondly. as artists worked with Krita. “In the “I remember staying up until the wee open-source community, you’re very Boudewijn Rempt is CTO of KO GmbH, hours of the morning, busily coding close to your users,” he explained. “I an international software company everything David needed to reach his knew a couple of artists, and they had headquartered in Magdeburg, Germany. production targets. Great fun!” good comments. We sat with them His background is in linguistics, where he Moving the Krita app from mouse for a week, watching quietly. We took specialized in the Sino-Tibetan languages to touch was part of Rempt’s constant notes and then started fixing things. of Eastern Nepal. He’s also a sculptor in his search for more input devices and a For example, we learned right away limited spare time, and he greatly enjoys better user experience. For example, that we had to make features more sketching and painting as well. And artists can now use the Sketch app on discoverable.” despite no formal education in computer their touch-enabled device for a quick Rempt said he was pleasantly science, he found himself dabbling in image, which can then be worked on surprised by the capabilities of a programming, and now he is a key player with the desktop app to add a higher touch-based Ultrabook device. “With in the open-source community. level of detail. “Touch is rather special,” touch, we can easily put things where When he found there was no he said. “It makes sense for some we want…you just give it a flick. application that suited his needs for operations, but is less useful elsewhere. Sometimes when you’re painting, you’ll

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— Boudewijn Rempt, CTO, KO GmbH,

get your dimensions or proportions we were really interested in moving the keeping up with advances in mobility wrong, like create a big head on a state-of-the-art for generating computer and human-computer interaction at small body. We have a transform tool art forward. For example, we were every turn. to fix it quickly. Having touch available the first open-source project to have Developers who have their own gives you an enormous boost because real-world color mixing. But it turns great ideas for new products can learn it’s more tactile. After seeing artists be out that artists don’t want that. They a lot from how the Krita and Nest productive, we learned that trying to want to select a color, not mix it. They teams succeeded. Both groups helped mimic traditional media is a mistake. It’s know what color they want. We tried themselves with extensive research and bringing the difficulties of painting in the watercolor simulations, with the image training, and they took full advantage real world to the computer screen! But changing as it dried. Bzzt! Wrong! of the . In both the computer can do so much more.” Artists don’t want that. They make a cases, no single thing has led to success. Krita is part of the Calligra project, stroke, and that’s the stroke they want. Both groups conquered multiple which has been present on Nokia Artists need to be productive. It’s not technologies to bring their pet projects phones such as the N900* and N9*, the technology that creates the art, to life, including learning about HTML5, used on MeeGo* tablets, and has been it’s the artist. Serendipity has its place, handling the trade-offs between ported to operating systems such as but it’s the artist who decides where touch and the mouse and keyboard Android*, Windows, and Linux*. Rempt it’s useful, often in the early stages of frameworks, and zeroing in on the user said that moving the core application sketching and generating ideas. But experience, to make both of them ready from device type to device type is when painting a finished piece, artists for the next wave of input devices and always interesting, forcing software need dependable colors. That’s why user requests. developers to cleanly separate modules, we give them layers, blending modes, Meanwhile, Intel support engineers for example. With all those different sketch brushes, paint brushes, and a are constantly developing helpful SDKs, platforms, Krita brings the ability to color picker. They create the art; Krita lines of sample code, interesting case create artwork in more and more only facilitates the process.” studies, and other resources that enable environments. “If you go to the park Krita worked closely with Intel budding entrepreneurs to get in on and sketch, your laptop and Wacom throughout their project. They have the action. Whether engineers want to tablet won’t work,” Rempt said. “The continuously interacted with engineers, bring touch capabilities to digital paint screen is wrong, the wires are wrong, documentation, and other resources, programs, such as Krita on an Ultrabook and it’s just no fun. But if you take the and constantly sought new information device or create easier interfaces for the Ultrabook device with you, it’s nicer to make their job of bringing killer apps Nest family organizer on an All-in-One than pencil and paper. You can get to the touch-enabled Ultrabook device device, the story is the same—Intel is started, pack up, and take your device easier. “We have a great relationship here to help. home, then load the images onto your with Intel,” he said. “It’s not our first workstation and finish them up. It opens project together with this team, and possibilities that are genuinely new.” they’re super helpful every time.” Rempt said that some of his users Learn more about Krita at: have experimented with different input kogmbh.com/krita/ devices, such as game-pads, separate Summary number pads, and even foot pedals. Download Krita Sketch through the “We are always looking for ways to The Nest and Krita development stories Intel AppUp® center at: www.appup. make the interaction easier. Panning, are just two examples of how agile com/app-details/krita-sketch zooming, rotating, brush resizing—there teams around the world are expanding are lots of ways to enable all that and the reach of Intel® architecture. The more. When artists tell me they feel future of personal computers continues hampered, we try to fix stuff. Originally, to evolve in exciting new directions,

Intel® Software Adrenaline 40 Now See This

Total Immersion brings augmented reality to PCs and the Ultrabook™ device

By Geoff Arnold

onsider the changes in the world of computing since 1999, the year Bruno Uzzan co-founded Total Immersion, the global leader in augmented reality, and the well-reviewed IBM ThinkPad* T20 boasted a top-of-the-line 700-MHz Intel® ® III processor. Devices that define the cutting edge of mobility Chave gone from five-pound laptops, priced at several thousand U.S. dollars, to five-ounce smartphones that cost just a few hundred U.S. dollars. While price and size have gone down, performance has gone up. The Motorola RAZR™ i is powered by the Intel® Atom™ processor Z2460, which runs at up to 2 GHz. It’s hardly news that Moore’s Law continues to produce laptops and

Intel® Software Adrenaline 41 TryLive™, a next-generation virtual try-on solution for e-commerce.

Intel® Software Adrenaline 42 “Our algorithms, particularly those supporting recognition and tracking, rely heavily on CPU power. eyeglasses and sunglasses while shopping So each time Intel launches a new CPU, we are on eBay;3 explore the Volkswagen Golf features on your mobile device;4 bring 3D automatically leveraging the technology; that is, our avatars to life from old-fashioned Topps baseball cards5 where avatars can engage recognition and tracking tools automatically get better.” with you in virtual pitching, batting, and catching games; and more. — Bruno Uzzan, Co-founder, Total Immersion TryLive™, a brand of Total Immersion, is the next generation of product visualization and virtual try-on solutions for retail, e-commerce, mobile commerce and brand marketing. TryLive devices that are more powerful and yet was alive and well. A 1997 paper2 enables enhanced and social shopping less expensive, notably the Ultrabook™ by Ronald T. Azuma, then at Hughes experiences at home, in the store, and device, which has received a raft of good Research Laboratories, included a list of on the go. (See www.trylive.com to reviews. (The September 2012 Engadget potential applications that universities learn more.) declared the HP Envy Spectre XT* to be and tech companies were exploring for Coverage of AR technology is soaring “…a sleek and speedy Ultrabook with a use in medicine, manufacturing and in the mainstream press. Mentions of killer keyboard.”) repair, and robotics and entertainment. “augmented reality” in The New York But in the case of Bruno Uzzan, what Azuma now works as a researcher at Times soared more than 2,000 percent in is novel is how he and Total Immersion Intel Labs in Santa Clara, California. 2012 compared to the previous year. In co-founder Valentin Lefevre made a AR technology even had a small August 2012, Juniper Research released prescient bet on how augmented reality handful of real-world uses in the 1990s, a report6 projecting that by 2017, more (AR) might fit into this faster-better- most prominently in military aircraft, than 2.5 billion mobile AR apps will be cheaper future. where pilots used heads-up displays and downloaded to smartphones and tablets helmet-mounted sights to superimpose each year, more than 3.5 times the vector graphics on the view outside number of downloads of the smash hit Augmented Reality in Sci-Fi the cockpit window. Lefevre, in fact, Angry Birds* in 2011. and Fighter Planes was working in the military aerospace Total Immersion seems well positioned industry on simulation software when to have its core technology, D’Fusion® AR is technology that takes a live, he approached Uzzan about the idea for software, in a fair number of these real-world view of the environment Total Immersion. downloads. D’Fusion, used by more than and augments it with computer- “At that time, most simulation 17,000 developers today, provides coders generated sensory input, such as video software, 3D software, and immersive with a real-time loop for building AR or graphics. In the 1990s, at least in software required high-end computers, applications. Various algorithms power terms of pop culture awareness, AR like Silicon Graphics workstations, which millisecond-level responsiveness in the was usually relegated to science-fiction sold for as much as USD 40,000,” said three capabilities on which AR depends: novels or films depicting dystopic Uzzan. “Valentin’s vision was that one recognition of objects in the real-world futures. You might remember a nude day, and relatively soon, all this software environment, tracking a user’s movement Arnold Schwarzenegger wandering would run on a normal computer, even relative to these objects, and rendering a through a bar in Terminator 2 sizing a phone, thanks to more and more 3D object or animation. up the patrons with his built-in data powerful CPUs and GPUs.” “If it takes more than a few processing prowess as he searched That day has arrived. milliseconds for the AR application to for clothes to “borrow.” (For those kick in, there’s no way to offer the kind who don’t remember, he doesn’t say of immersive experience that is the key ‘please,’ but gets the boots, jeans, Moving to the Mainstream characteristic of the whole technology,” and leather jacket anyway—and a said Uzzan. “Our algorithms, particularly motorcycle, too.1) But even then, long Total Immersion’s technology, the most those supporting recognition and before Schwarzenegger became the widely used commercial AR platform in tracking, rely heavily on CPU power. So Governator, bona fide AR research the world, allows you to virtually try on each time Intel launches a new CPU,

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Intel® Software Adrenaline 43 we are automatically leveraging the “Without a doubt, the next stage a customer might download an app and technology; that is, our recognition and in AR quality advancement is to work aim it once at a printed ad. But would tracking tools automatically get better.” with the chipmakers,” he said. “That’s he do it again? And how quickly does why we’re so excited to work with the novelty wear off? Intel, because we can discuss with “We were focusing too much on Working with Intel their engineers how some of these creating on-off ‘wow’ experiences, calculations might be done in a different and we weren’t alone,” says Uzzan. Uzzan and his engineers do more than way to unlock new AR applications in “I think all these early efforts hurt the just wait around for cheaper MIPS and the future.” AR industry. People said, ‘That’s it? I’m FLOPS in next-generation processors going to use my phone to watch videos from Intel, which led to a USD 5.5 million on a brochure?’ The experience was round of funding7 for Total Immersion in Trading Hype for a Focus pretty poor.” March 2011. Total Immersion’s D’Fusion on Helping Customers For now, Uzzan is focusing on Computer Vision module, which solving ordinary problems for everyday includes both recognition and tracking Uzzan was raised and educated in consumers, and the businesses that algorithms, is included in the Intel® France. He ran Total Immersion from serve these people and ultimately pay Perceptual Computing SDK, which was Paris until 2007, when he moved to the for his technology. And the strategy announced in September 2012 at the company’s Los Angeles office, located seems to be working. Intel Developer Forum and released as just off the Hollywood Freeway and For example, one of the most a free download on October 22, 2012. about four miles from the Hollywood anticipated AR-related products on The SDK, initially focused on developers Walk of Fame. It’s a perfect spot from the horizon is Google’s Project Glass writing applications for laptops and which to forge deals with some of the (Google doesn’t prefer the term Ultrabook devices, combines a handful of world’s largest entertainment companies “glasses” because there aren’t any tools that targets Intel® processor-based and movie studios. For example, Uzzan lenses). When asked about Google’s devices and complements AR, including helped convince Paramount Pictures to project, Uzzan said he’d be thrilled to speech and gesture recognition. (See the add an AR experience to the promotion try a pair himself, but warns gently “Perceptual Computing and the Future of the 2010 film Ironman 2. Along against sky-high expectations and about of UI” article in this magazine.) with PPC Interactive, Total Immersion an experience that’s intrusive and not “This SDK is potentially extremely developed an application, eventually intuitive. Engineering challenges remain powerful,” said Uzzan. “We regularly downloaded hundreds of thousands of to be solved, including incorporating get questions from our clients: ‘Can we times, which allowed fans to sit at their also do speech recognition?’ ‘Can we computer, turn on their webcam, and see do gesture recognition, too?’ Now, with themselves on the screen in Ironman’s the SDK, the answer will be ‘yes.’” iconic helmet.9 One of the ongoing debates in the However, Hollywood offers no tech world centers on what drives shortage of cautionary tales about innovation in computing. Chip vendors the dangers of excessive hype and claim that advances in CPU architecture the fickle nature of taste. A few years spur new, better software. Software ago, when smartphone adoption was companies, in turn, claim that their most soaring and the iPad* launched with advanced code eventually pushes chip much fanfare, every digital marketing designers back to the drawing boards. company wanted to experiment with This so-called software spiral, which AR. Unfortunately, this usually meant has been discussed since the days when the creation of brochures that came to Andy Grove ran Intel8 is alive and well life when seen through the lens of a in the case of AR. Uzzan said that after smartphone or tablet camera. LEFT The magazine cover years of work on D’Fusion, his team Uzzan said that many of the is tracked by a phone’s is reaching the limits of what can be campaigns were gimmicky and failed camera, featuring Ironman delivered by algorithms working 100 to translate into increased sales for the in augmented reality. (LG/ percent in the software realm. companies doing the advertising. Sure, Verizon campaign, 2010).

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Intel® Software Adrenaline 44 Total Immersion’s Augmented Reality Apps

otal Immersion created two unique augmented reality (AR) Wi-Fi* receptors, and the USD 1,500 apps for the Intel AppUp® center (appup.com). Both run on price tag means that the glasses any PC with a webcam, and they’ve been optimized for the aren’t bound for a big swath of the TUltrabook™ device architecture. population, at least not at first. The Total Immersion application AR Magic Mirror that allows people to virtually try on The user’s face is instantly recognized and tracked in the mirror eyewear? People who use it are 41 where he can see his reflection, disguised as a sombrero-wearing percent more likely to buy the product mouse, a pirate cat, and other fun characters. Users can snap a picture and proceed to their online checkout of their best look and share it on Facebook*. with baskets worth 12.5 percent more, compared to those who shop using just a browser, according to French retailer Direct Optic, which offers the TryLive ABOVE Augmented reality on stage—a application on its Web site. unique and impressive presentation tool. Another potential AR application is using a tablet with AR technology to virtually arrange furniture around 45 minutes setting up at least two a living space. The demo video is heavy-duty desktop systems with compelling, which shows a woman various special video-capture and 3D holding up an iPad and using the graphics boards, connecting a tangle tablet’s camera to capture a picture of of cables, and then sweating through a Screenshot from AR Magic Mirror. a spare room that could benefit from a presentation in front of a client. redesign. (See youtu.be/vIBFyxF69U8.) “Today, the same demonstration, AR Game Center Various chairs, tables, and a TV appear exactly the same, is working on a The Game Center offers four mini-games, and each game shows a as she moves them about on iPad’s smartphone, tablet, or Ultrabook different natural human-to-machine interaction allowed by AR. touch-screen. device,” he said. “AR has grown from a very complex technology, not reaching • Catch the Fruits is based on gesture recognition. Move your hands most consumers, to one you can carry to catch the fruit—don’t get bitten by a spider. On Demonstrating AR— in your pocket, backpack, or purse, and Then and Now that might, I think, eventually reach every connected consumer on the planet.” Like any CEO of a small but growing tech company, Uzzan spends a good To learn more about Total Immersion deal of time on the road evangelizing and their latest projects, go to: his firm’s technology. In September www.t-immersion.com/projects 2012, he was at Intel’s booth at the IBC tradeshow in Amsterdam inviting To download a free copy of D’Fusion, go attendees to try out a virtual shopping to: community.t-immersion.com room powered by nothing more than a camera, an HD television, and a set-top Screenshot from Catch the Fruits. box running the Intel® Atom™ processor CE5300. It was among the first demos About the Author • Formula 1 Race uses head/face tracking technology. Pilot the car of its kind and hints at a future where Geoff Arnold has more than 10 years using the keyboard and control the view by moving your head. brick-and-mortar retailers transform into of experience writing about science and Look for your reflection in the car mirror! limited showrooms as more of the actual technology. He has written for The Dallas shopping happens online at home. Morning News, Physics Today, Physics • Snowball Fight is also based on face tracking. Move your head to Uzzan admitted that the actual World, and AAAS Science Careers. In avoid getting hit by the snowballs, and throw snowballs using the mechanics of showing off Total addition to working in media relations at keyboard spacebar. Immersion software only gets easier, Michigan State University and Stanford, mostly for the same reasons that he worked as a correspondent, columnist, • Snowboard Race is a thrilling ride that lets you control your computers continue to get smaller, and freelancer for the SD Times and trajectory with head movements. cheaper, and more powerful. As Software Test & Performance. Geoff lives Uzzan remembers it, a decade ago, in Portland, Oregon. Be sure to share your scores and pictures on Facebook! running the software meant spending

Intel® Software Adrenaline 45 of technological innovation, Telmap has become a world leader in mobile location-based services. The company, purchased in 2011 by Intel, specializes in connecting consumers to the information and the businesses they need where and when they need them. Today Telmap is continuing to provide white-label, location-based platforms for mobile providers such as Orange and Vodafone while simultaneously developing its own offering, M8*, your local mate. Currently available in the UK and Spain, and launching soon in the United States, M8 (pronounced “mate”) is a free mobile app for iOS* and Android* devices that delivers a wealth of optimized location-based information and services. From turn-by- turn navigation and live traffic updates, to restaurant and retail information, M8 aims to put the full power of the local Web in the palm of your hand. Mapping La Vida Local Connecting the Dots The mobile world is not short of location-based services, from specialized How Telmap gets people to where they need to be navigation apps and the mapping services of Google, Apple, and others, to the hinking about the Internet can activity is related to local content, and 85 public-powered local business reviews on By John conjure up images of a vast percent of all purchases happen within TripAdvisor* and Yelp*. Location is also Tyrrell network of interconnected 15 miles of the home or workplace. seeing its role grow on social media, with Tdigital devices spanning the The company adds that half of all local Facebook, Foursquare, and others geo- globe, with huge data centers under searches are carried out on a mobile tagging their users at every opportunity. mountains and thousands of miles of device, and 61 percent of smartphone M8’s strength is not in replacing these fiber-optic cables on the seabed sending users search for local information while types of apps and services, but rather in volumes of data from one side of the on the move. Combine these figures pulling all their threads together to weave planet to the other at the speed of with comScore’s prediction that by a comprehensive and coherent fabric of light. As the world’s Internet population 2014 mobile devices will overtake local information accessible through a hurtles toward a staggering 2.5 billion desktop computers as the number single portal. people, the scale of the digital network one way to connect to the Internet As Telmap CEO Oren Nissim that wraps the planet we call home in its globally,2 and the importance of the local explained, “We’re trying to bring web of fiber and Wi-Fi* is mind-blowing. Internet experience to the future of our together everything that has a geo But today’s most exciting Internet connected world becomes clear. context into the same app.” To do developments are not taking place on Riding at full gallop into this perfect any huge, incalculable global level. storm of local Internet opportunity 1www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyLMqO_ They’re on the street where you live. is Telmap. Founded in 2000 in , yWog According to U.S. local marketing a country which in recent years has 2 www.businessinsider.com/mobile-will- agency Balihoo,1 73 percent of all online earned a reputation as a major hotbed eclipse-desktop-by-2014-2012-6

Intel® Software Adrenaline 46 about the same number in the United within the app allow you to consume States.” As with the UK, local specialists more and better content, such as better are key. “Some of the brands are traffic services.” mega-brands, and they cover the entire Another opportunity for monetization “It’s not just about maps and United States. But to deliver high value springs from the sale of voices for the to somebody who lives in the Pacific M8 navigation system. “We’re selling a points of interest, it’s also Northwest, for example, you have to lot of funny voices now, which is another work with content providers from that interesting segment,” said Nissim. about how to utilize location area on top of those mega-brands,” “People want to download the voice of said Nissim. “This is really where we their choice to tell them how to get from information within my experience, want to go.” point A to point B, so we’re recording a lot of talent throughout the world.” whether I’m doing a game, For the UK version of M8, Telmap Location powers Life recently announced that British comedy creating an enterprise app, or icon and writer Stephen Fry, and Telmap’s ultimate goal is for M8 to Aardman animated favorites Wallace putting together a local tourist empower its users to solve the complex & Gromit, will be joining the ranks logistical problems of modern daily life of available navigation voices. The guide. All of those things utilize simply and easily. “We want M8 to be idea of being guided to a destination your location companion,” said Nissim, by a cheese-loving clay animation location in many different ways.” “which means it needs to deliver the Yorkshireman and his silent canine experience of what it means to be local.” sidekick is certainly an intriguing one. — Oren Nissim, CEO, Telmap “M8 effectively helps you make geo The second way that M8 monetizes decisions and filters that through your is by showing its worth as an invaluable daily calendar so you can make those local marketing tool for businesses, decisions easier and quicker,” said helping them reach audiences in Nissim. The empowerment manifests their immediate area with compelling in a variety of ways that can ease the offers. “We’re also doing what we complexity of busy daily agendas. For refer to as local commerce,” continued example, M8 can provide turn-by-turn Nissim. “We try to provide retailers navigation and proactive information to and advertisers a way to come through this effectively, M8 works with several avoiding traffic hold ups, or it can find the app with offers that are local. We specialist content providers, many useful local businesses and let users log offer several tools to utilize that in the of whom are experts in their specific in to their location on social networks. best way—such as banners, sponsored geographical area. Over the years, And all of this happens within the single search results, and branded widgets—all Telmap has developed many valuable unified M8 ecosystem. of which are very local, very targeted.” partnerships with the Web’s leading “Today, if I want to find a place on Search results served up by M8 to information aggregators and services, Facebook Places, get there, and check the user are highly targeted based from TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Facebook in using Foursquare, I need to run on the search terms used and their to more locally focused solutions. In the three different apps on my phone,” current location. Searching for an Italian UK, for example, M8 lets users access said Nissim. “We’re aggregating all this restaurant, for example, will bring up information from the hotel booking information together so with one easy primarily results in the immediate area. service HRS, the London-based cycle click you search Facebook Places, the Branded widgets can bring even more rental network Barclays Cycle Hire, and results come back, along with other prominence for local businesses by will soon be connected to the entire TFL results from, for example, Yelp and Trip featuring a logo that appears on the London public transport network. But as Advisor, and you’ll be able to get there map in response to a relevant search. anyone who has visited the UK knows, and check in using Foursquare.” it’s often not the journey across town that counts, but rather the destination. Local Loyalty “We work with the Good Pub Guide for Monetizing M8 pub information, very important in the The opportunities for local businesses to UK!” said Nissim. M8 is a free app based on a business effectively target their audience and grow For the U.S. launch of M8, Telmap is model of in-app monetization to achieve loyalty is what Nissim is most excited targeting a similar number of partners profitability, to which Telmap is applying about. “Many businesses are trying to go to that offered to its European users. their considerable experience and local digital and find a platform that ultimately “We currently have about 50 to 60 marketing insight. “We’re doing two delivers for local people. These businesses content partners on our list for countries things. Number one is that we sell digital are creating profiles so people can find in Europe, and we’re looking to add goods on top of the app, so mechanisms them online, and we see them going

Intel® Software Adrenaline 47 to couponing Web sites and launching location-based mobile app experiences campaigns to build loyalty,” said Nissim. available to app creators worldwide. “I see a new trend evolving around “We want to take location APIs to the everything that has to do with customer next level,” said Nissim. “It’s not just loyalty programs. If you launch a fantastic about maps and points of interest, About the Author couponing campaign you will definitely it’s also about how to utilize location John Tyrrell’s career in the games industry get traction, but then they don’t come information within my experience, began with the launch of Nintendo’s back,” said Nissim. “Customer loyalty whether I’m doing a game, creating an Pokemon on an unsuspecting British public has a lot to do with location, and this is enterprise app, or putting together a in 1999. After a decade of international where I see at least one of the golden local tourist guide. All of those things PR campaigns and freelance writing, he nuggets. I think we are really at the tip of utilize location in many different ways.” left the position of Worldwide PR Director the iceberg.” at Atari in 2009 to establish Hot Socket, The importance of delivering relevant a communications consultancy based in local advertising to local people is core Location, Location, Lyon, France. He is also currently head of to the M8 user experience and to the Location marketing at social game developer oOki, offer for businesses. “Location for these creative director at games marketing and retailers is all about, ‘how do I make sure Intel and Telmap share a common vision PR agency Cosmocover, and contributing that I grab the attention of that person of the importance of location for the technology writer for RH+M3. when they’re nearby?’ Or, ‘if I know that future of connected devices. “I think the person is going to be nearby I want location is a critical component for to be able to offer them something.’” computing going forward,” said Nissim. “Using context within location apps, “If you think about it, almost any app which ultimately creates the mash-up that you download on your phone today between where I am right now and what requires your location. The same thing my intentions are going forward, allows will be true for Ultrabook™ devices and customer loyalty targeting, encouraging tablets. I think location is a core piece of customers to come back. Location is identity and a core piece of context.” going to become huge when it comes to “Location is what defines how I move targeted advertising, targeted marketing, from using one device to another. I’m in customer loyalty…all of these schemes.” the office using my computer, and then I’m disconnecting and getting into my car. I’m using an in-vehicle infotainment Getting in on the system, and then I’m disconnecting and Location Game going on foot and using my cell,” said Nissim. “Throughout that experience I The power of Telmap’s technology and utilize content and I’m contextually doing partnerships are not restricted to the M8 different things, but they all have to do product. In addition to the white-label with where I am now and the context of services it provides to mobile operators, how I’m using my equipment.” Telmap also offers a number of APIs “Location is critically important for that app developers can use to integrate all those tasks. I think that Telmap and location-based services in their apps. Intel share a vision of coming together The first phase of APIs launched give not only on great customer experiences, developers access to the maps (Ordnance which is what Telmap is working on Survey for the UK and NAVTEQ right now, but also on how to extend elsewhere), routing, and place finding those to the development community that Telmap uses, with the addition of to create a great ubiquitous location as-it-happens traffic data. “We think experience on top of an Intel® product.” we have something really interesting for software developers who want to To learn more about Telmap, go to: incorporate real-time traffic events into global.telmap.com their experiences,” said Nissim. The second phase of APIs allows developers to gain access to data from a number of Telmap’s local content partners, which will be followed later by APIs that deliver context information, the aim being to make the potential of

Intel® Software Adrenaline 48 Pro Gamers Laud Ultrabook™ Device Connectivity Strengths Some of the most demanding PC users in the world rely on Ultrabook devices

t’s hard to imagine tech-savvy, the athletes themselves were busy Starting with local LAN events, By Garret battle-hardened PC gaming pros practicing and playing, we interviewed O’Dell next gravitated to small, nearby Romaine showing much enthusiasm for people from the administrative, support, tournaments, and as his win totals anything but a high-end, tricked- and management side of pro gaming to mounted, so did his confidence. He out, spec-maxed tower. Yet in a get their thoughts on the new Ultrabook tried his luck with one of the first big series of interviews with three of device. We quickly found they all had LAN tournaments, Multiplay UK, and the most demanding PC users one thing in common, and their mottos never looked back. “I was absolutely on the planet, Intel® Software boiled down to this: “always working, hooked,” he said. “Once you play in a Adrenaline found they are learning to always sharing, always connected.” LAN tournament, that’s the best. After relyI on the mobility, form factor, and PC my injury, I wondered how I could still power of the Ultrabook™ device. be competitive, and then found this Pro gaming athletes practice How to Herd the Gamers great, growing niche.” constantly, travel continually, and O’Dell initially struck out on his own stay connected no matter what. The Michael O’Dell, or “ODEE” when he’s and then later joined the clan LCD. administrators, executives, and team gaming, is a former soccer star who They engaged in some frantic 10-on-10 managers that track the athletes work saw his career on the pitch cut short tournaments playing Battlefield 1942*, even harder. For example, to carry the by injury and turned his competitive which led to forming Team Dignitas. current 65 pro gaming athletes on Intel- juices to gaming instead. “After I got Soon his team was landing top honors sponsored Team Dignitas, about 500 hurt, I picked up Quake* and Counter- regularly. Because a 10-man team was ABOVE Gamescom 2012 in players have rotated through the ranks Strike* and loved it, and that’s how it too large to get picked up by mainstream Cologne, Germany. in the last four years. Managing that all started. I read online that people sponsors, they added Counter-Strike, Call much manpower takes more than many were entering tournaments, and I heard of Duty*, and Enemy Territory* to their tablets have to offer—at a minimum, about a guy who quit a job on Wall portfolio of squads. it requires Microsoft Office*, the “gold Street to start a career in pro gaming, When Intel began to sponsor the standard” for corporate warriors. While and that inspired me.” team, it fell to O’Dell to keep on top of

Intel® Software Adrenaline 49 their sponsor relationship, which took multi-play events are our game research up a lot of his time–to the detriment arenas. It’s like the X Factor, only we’re of team tactics and planning. After running a StarCraft* tournament and reaching the finals in the European Cup we’ll pick a person to become part of and realizing that the paperwork was our squad and win a laptop and chance interfering with keeping up with the to become part of the team.” game—which they won—O’Dell retired O’Dell says the game of the moment and took on the role of team manager. is League of Legends*, with about 40 He has been running Team Dignitas million people playing; about 8 million full-time for the past five years. viewers watched the recent World “We have 65 players, and it is non- Championships online. “I’m addicted stop,” he said. “It’s 18 hours a day of as well,” he admitted. “I play it on the herding mainly teenage boys, if you can Ultrabook device all the time, and it imagine. Fortunately, all the Dignitas looks great. In fact, I’ve been suggesting staff are ex-players, and we know what to Intel that we do an Ultrabook-only the gamers need and what they’re tournament here in England!” thinking. Some of them try to pull a fast one, but we know what they’re about.” To learn more about Team Dignitas, see Rule the World Recently, pro gaming has seen a their Web site at: www.team-dignitas.net resurgence, and O’Dell says it is getting fter six seasons of gaming mastery, Intel Extreme really hectic. “To stay connected, I have Masters is now one of the premier global an iPhone*, and I use a desktop PC Twitter* and Facebook* leagues in the world. The tour has given out over when I’m at my desk. I used to rely on a and YouTube*—Oh My! A2.8M USD in prize money at 37 live events on four powerful laptop when I was away from different continents. The 2011–12 season of the Intel Extreme the office, but lately, my Ultrabook has Alexander Holtz Shedden has been Masters featured Counter-Strike*, StarCraft II*, and League of become my ‘runaround’ device. When working as a full-time editor in the Legends* as the main titles and USD 643,000 seasonal prize I wake up, it’s the first thing I turn on. eSports business for almost four years. money—the most lucrative prize purse globally. It’s always there. While we’re traveling He travels around the world to attend all over the world it’s very easy to take all the Intel Extreme Masters events, Check out Intel Extreme Masters at: www.-world.net/masters along. In the last month I was in Los delivering interviews, impressions, and Angeles, Seattle, and Spain, so having anything else that might be of interest the Ultrabook device available on the for the fans at home. His work life plane and in airports has been essential. revolves around mobility, video editing, It has a great battery.” production, and speed. “I have to “Ultimately, it was only a matter of What O’Dell really likes is that it’s produce and edit the videos directly at time before I was asked to join ESL TV,” not an under-powered tablet with the venue to put them online as soon he said. ABOVE alternative software—it has real as possible. When that’s done, I provide Shedden said the most important Intel Extreme Masters Windows*-based Microsoft Office insights through Twitter and Facebook. thing now is to get to the next gaming World Championship applications. “It’s got the everyday Mobility is really important to me.” venue as early as possible so he doesn’t CeBIT 2012. business stuff I need. It’s got access to Lately, he’s been using an Ultrabook miss anything. He gets to know players email and Excel* and docs and PDFs. All device and enjoying the results. before their matches, and he tries to that stuff is crucial. I need to have it.” “In addition to Intel Extreme schedule as many interviews as possible The ability to use his Ultrabook Masters, I also work for other eSports before the action gets too hot and device for social networking has been series, including the ESL Pro Series,” heavy. “Players aren’t available for especially important. “I tweet a lot he said. “The size and weight of the interviews most of the time, due to their because our Team Dignitas Twitter Ultrabook help me a lot. It’s a quiet and busy schedules,” he said. And even with is very popular—‘DignitasODEE’ is comfortable device to carry around, careful up-front planning, the workflow my handle. I use my phone and my especially when you have a lot of other differs from day to day. “You have Ultrabook almost exclusively. Twitter is the baggage to drag with you.” to follow the tournament, record the quickest way we communicate with our Before he started as an editor, players during the hottest matchups, get fans, and we like it.” Shedden was a passionate gamer crowd scenes of the cheering audiences, During the past several years, O’Dell’s aiming at becoming one of the best and so on. I always have to be ready to job of managing all the names, faces, in Germany. When he realized that he record because I want to capture those schedules, and talents has become would never become as good as the unexpected situations. Then, when I’m quite complex. “They come and go,” top players, he decided to switch to not recording, I have to cut the daily he said. “Only a few have longevity. managing players, teams, and clans. impressions on-the-fly to make sure the When they’re 18 to 20 years old, it’s That led to networking with other video is ready when the day ends.” hard to make a full-time career out of talents in eSports media, and when At the Intel Extreme Masters stop pro gaming. After college, they have to they discovered his talent for creating in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2012, one of decide on a job and a career. So we’re videos, they hooked him up with some the tournament’s participants, viOlet, always looking for new players. The big volunteer opportunities as a tryout. won the hearts of the audience, “Just

Intel® Software Adrenaline 50 I can work as comfortably as I do on my Early on, Reichert and his partners PC, with just a small piece of space.” knew that cheap, fast Internet access was extremely important. So was PC See the latest gaming action at: www.esl. reliability and mobility. Strikingly, those tv/iem and www.facebook.com/ESLTV attributes are still important today, and Reichert said he was an early adopter of the new Ultrabook device for just Executive on the Go that reason. “I have a first-generation Ultrabook device,” he said. “It’s an Ralf Reichert is a 30-something former Acer S3*, which was a big step up for professional gamer hailing from Germany me because of its mobility. I still travel with a degree in economics and a solid a lot, and I need to have the full PC skill for team strategy and kill shots. A experience with me at all times. I’ve former professional gamer, he is now used tablets, but going from consuming the chief executive officer of Turtle content to producing content is a big Entertainment GmbH, a global leader in step. The Ultrabook device enabled eSports located in Cologne. In the mid- me to do the things I needed without 1990s, when the first wave of Internet carrying five kilos of luggage.” by being friendly and positive about gaming ricocheted through European Reichert said that all of the tablets the country,” as he put it. “The crowd universities, he climbed onboard and has he’s used to date have had one was so amazing; they cheered for every never looked back. He fell in love with common flaw—they were under- successful action played in those games Quake—the first multi-player first-person powered. “I prefer the Ultrabook device and went crazy again and again. It was shooter with solid, built-in Internet support— over any tablet I’ve ever had,” he said. ABOVE Gamescom 2012 fun to capture all that.” (See www. and soon found himself hooked. Looking “I spend four to six hours in front of my in Cologne, Germany youtube.com/watch?v=RyiuXrU9HbM.) back, he calls the day that game was PC every day productively working. One Mobility has become a huge factor released, “the birthdate of eSports.” of my past problems was coordinating BELOW in his personal and professional life. He Reichert quickly formed a team, the process of using a laptop and a Intel Extreme Masters uses three key devices during the day to called SK Gaming, enrolling his two desktop—two devices—with traveling; World Championship get online–his mobile phone, his tablet, brothers and some friends. Within a my data was in different places. I don’t CeBIT 2012.. and his Ultrabook device, which joined short time he found himself launched have that problem anymore. I use the the party most recently. “I spend a lot into an active career involving overseas Ultrabook all day at work, and when I’m of time using social networks to inform tournaments, wide acclaim, and done I pack it up and travel with it. Of fans about what’s going on. It is not considerable success. He finished his course, I still have a powerful desktop only about the videos, but also about university degree, but because his team system at home for gaming. I am a the insights such as backstage pictures was winning national tournaments huge fan of the 3rd generation Intel® or interesting quotes the players give. and placing in the top five around the Core™ i7 processor!” And of course I interact a lot with the world, he had a decision to make. Reichert spends a lot of time fans. They know I am at the venue so It wasn’t all that hard, “In 2000, communicating through email and they reach me through Twitter. I prefer I finished my degree and had to decide Skype*, and he also uses Twitter*. He’s to use my Ultrabook device in that case what to do for living. I was already old currently using Yammer* as his corporate to deliver the best pictures made with for a pro-gamer, and at the time, it was social network. He posts notes, photos, my Reflex* camera. I can quickly turn tough to make a living in the game and links to his recent videos there, on the Ultrabook, choose the picture, circuit. So my friends and I thought which have become hugely important. and upload it in the easiest way. The about a business. Believing that eSports “Our vision was always to grow Ultrabook fits my style perfectly. What would be big and would continue to this as a spectator sport, and from the I really love is the power in that device. grow, we went into the organizer role.” beginning, I always video streamed

Intel® Software Adrenaline 51 tournaments to the Internet. We have always had a video production team, but today they are more professional. We get 300K concurrent live spectators now. In Gamescom there were 4 million unique live views throughout the event. We’ve changed from a niche to a big spectator sport.” Reichert still plays competitively, although not at the level he once achieved. “I play regularly,” he said. “Not on a professional level, but I am competitive. I actually still play with the same old crew from my early days— we’re a band of brothers. I’m happy to be in the top ten percent now in a tournament, although years ago it was one percent. I play League of Legends and Starcraft, and if I’m in the top 10K, I’m happy with the placement. The air gets thin on top and you need to practice. I have a business to run, but I still play 10 to 20 hours each week.” And business is good. Turtle Entertainment does six big, global events each year with Intel. In 2006, they expanded from a national league in Germany to the international stage. may not involve as much hectic travel as Reichert has had a solid relationship with these pro gaming luminaries experience, Intel over the years, and he’s excited but you’ll appreciate its lightweight ABOUT THE AUTHOR about the future. “I am interested in the and mobile design. And you’ll enjoy Garret Romaine is a senior writer, working ABOVE Alexander new Ultrabook devices, which will be having true PC power at your fingertips. for RH+M3 from Hillsboro, Oregon. He Holtz Shedden between touch-enabled! The convertible will be Although you might play more Angry started in gaming as a beta tester for Epic tournaments. great, and for me and my business it will Birds* than League of Legends, you’ll Megagames and has been a columnist, be extremely interesting.” still feel like you’re at the cutting edge editor, and reviewer ever since. Garret of the PC universe. is a Fellow in the Society for Technical Get the latest on Turtle Entertainment Communication, and he teaches technical at: www.turtle-entertainment. For more information about the communication at Portland State University. com/?&lang=en Intel-inspired Ultrabook, go to: www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ sponsors-of-tomorrow/ultrabook.html Summary

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Intel® Software Adrenaline 52 Houston, We Have Cleared the Tower Microsoft Windows* 8 development is rocket science

icrosoft Microsoft Windows client developers, term caught on with developers, but as Windows*8 is founded on a new runtime, and release grew nearer the code name was the new OS in giving users a completely new way of replaced with the final Windows Store town, and it’s interacting with their devices. app name for the overall environment, something of a There are numerous resources both for app developers and end users. radical departure available to help developers of apps for While we technical people love code from the familiar Android and iOS, but so far first-person names, app users needed a simple WindowsM environment that countless advice for creators of Windows Store way to differentiate this development developers and consumers the world apps is more difficult to find. With the runtime from the Win32*/Windows over have grown used to. Microsoft aim of making the journey easier for Presentation Foundation (WPF) is putting its full weight behind the Windows Store app developers, Intel applications they are used to. And the platform’s roll out on PCs, tablets, and, Software Adrenaline magazine caught simplest solution to this question was to importantly, mobile phones, a relatively up with Philip Wheat, Manager of describe it as a function of where they new battleground for Windows. The Chaotic Moon’s Lab Division, to find out will find these types of apps. new OS is expected to make a major what lies in store. I find it easier to think of Windows impact, with its penetration on phones Store apps as apps that are based and tablets tipped to grow significantly, Intel Software Adrenaline (ISA): Please around the latest foundational shift in bringing it firmly into the race with tell us about your team’s background in the Windows world. To date there have iOS* and Android*. The explosion of developing mobile apps. been basically four shifts (I’m speaking portable Windows 8 devices brings Wheat: Chaotic Moon studios was loosely here, I know there are many a new set of challenges to app founded in March 2010 by three great ways to break out the generations)— developers as they strive to master the guys hoping to be at the forefront DOS, Win32, .Net, and the new programming environment and ensure of the adoption of mobile apps and Windows runtime. DOS brought us the optimum consumer experience technology. Now, building mobile apps hardware independence (coupled across every device, from desktops and is hardly innovative, but our company with standard BIOS), Win32 brought laptops, to tablets, Ultrabooks™ devices, is good at it. Three years ago, we the GUI development environment and mobile phones. were focused specifically on phone to the forefront, .Net helped free us In 2012, Intel engaged Chaotic apps because at that time, mobile from buffer overruns and lost memory Moon, a mobile application meant Apple iPhone* apps, Microsoft pointers; and now Windows runtime development studio based in Austin, Windows Mobile apps, or a desktop steps us forward into the world of Texas, to create a new app for Intel® application on a laptop. Today, that asynchronous methods, concurrency Software Adrenaline world has expanded dramatically, with management, and stateless local to run on Microsoft Microsoft Windows Phone 8, Microsoft applications. Windows 8 devices. Windows 8, Apple iOS, and Android all In the current world of networked Optimized primarily clamoring for attention in the minds and devices, it is no longer safe for for Intel® architecture toolboxes of mobile app developers. developers to assume they have local and Ultrabook devices, We keep our focus on the ever-evolving access to resources they need, and the app lets users market and technology, so developing Windows runtime assists development access and read Intel® Windows Store applications was the by ensuring that developers can call on Software Adrenaline next logical step. the required data and processing power magazine content on any without worrying about blocking local Windows* 8 device, and ISA: Can you discuss the terms resources and creating unresponsive took the team of David used in the new environment for applications for the end users. Jacobson, Jim Mischel, developing Windows Store apps? Another benefit of Windows runtime Mike Walls, and Philip Wheat a total of Wheat: During the development of is the ability to write code (and any three months to complete. The resulting Microsoft Windows 8, Microsoft used subsequent edits) once and roll it out on The Chaotic Moon application was written (in significant the code name Metro for this new any hardware platform. Windows runtime executive team. part) in a completely new language for environment. As you might expect, this is not to be confused with Windows RT, the

Intel® Software Adrenaline 53 new OS for a limited market of portable extends that commonality to the That being said, C++ has returned to devices based on non-Intel® architecture. desktop itself. And with the ability mainstream application development. for Windows 8 to provide hardware In the past, the language’s perceived ISA: What programming language acceleration for the language, complexity and the additional work developments are you seeing, and developers will see performance needed to create a user application how do they impact on the creation benefits that were previously steered many Windows client of Windows Store apps? unattainable for the language. For developers away. But now the Wheat: JavaScript* is now a first-class example, the Intel Software Adrenaline Windows runtime environment assists language for client development. Windows Store app was written the C++ syntax to manage and simplify Industry trends show that JavaScript almost entirely in JavaScript and XAML. complexity, enabling developers to be use has been increasing on servers When working with the Windows 8 as comfortable with the language as to provide a common development application development environment, they have previously been with Visual metaphor between the browser and developers who have JavaScript Basic* and C#. For Windows Store server, but the Windows Store app experience should consider making it apps that have extensive or complex environment and Windows runtime their primary programming language. algorithm needs or that require high-

Intel® Software Adrenaline 54 environment. But, by design, a browser environment is limited for security reasons and to ensure the safety of the generic OS underneath it. Because of the tight integration between the Windows kernel and security system with the Windows runtime/XAML environment, those security checks can be much stronger, allowing the Windows Store app end users more resources and access. This means that access to localization resources, user data, local caching, and so forth become easier and more secure to use with XAML, while the model remains close enough to HTML5 to ensure cross-utilization of code and the ability to provide light, lower- functionality versions of Windows Store apps that can be run inside of browser environments. This provides the best balance between optimized desktop applications and cross-platform standardized functionality.

ISA: Can you explain “app contracts” in the context of Windows Store apps? The Intel® Software Wheat: App contracts, one of the most Adrenaline Application interesting features of the new runtime, home page. are interfaces that the Windows Store app registers with Windows 8 to allow easy integration with the operating system. The simplest and most common app contract is “search,” which enables the app to register its search capability with the operating system itself. Then efficiency back-end processing, C++ the presentation layer. In Windows Store when the app user wants to find an may be the language of choice. apps, the user experience is encoded item of data, instead of having to open C/C++ offers more options for taking in XAML. Though developers may each application and perform a search, advantage of the underlying hardware recognize the term of “XAML” from the user simply activates the Windows power than any other programming WPF or Silverlight*, the format itself 8 search charm on the user interface language (with the exception of has changed somewhat—consider it and selects the applications and data , of course). as simple (or as vast) as the transition types that he or she wants to include However, experienced Visual Basic, happening between HTML4 and HTML5. in the search. Because the applications C#, or F# developers aren’t being left The encoding and formatting remain themselves have exposed their search out. Not only can Windows Store apps the same, but the keywords, elements, interface, the operating system knows be developed in different languages, but attributes, and so forth have changed. how to query each dataset and quickly they can also be developed in different Why didn’t Microsoft stick with WPF return the desired results. languages inside the same applications. or Silverlight since those presentation For example, although the Intel layers have been well optimized over ISA: What resources are available Software Adrenaline Windows Store app time? The reason is simple—as both to support the development and was written almost entirely in JavaScript, XAML and HTML continue to evolve, testing of Windows Store apps? we also used a bit of code that had the idea of an XML presentation layer Wheat: One useful place to go to is previously been developed in C#. continued to converge into a standard. the online Intel® Developer Zone (intel. And that standard falls very close (if not on ly/dev4ultrabook), which has an area ISA: What is important for top of) the pending HTML5 standard. dedicated to Windows 8 development developers to know about the In many cases developers can use for Ultrabook devices. You’ll find info, presentation layers when creating HTML5 directly, doing many of the guides, tool downloads, and test Windows Store apps? same things they do in a browser in code samples to get you started. You Wheat: On top of Windows runtime is their Windows Store app development can also ask questions directly to the

Intel® Software Adrenaline 55 guys at Intel in the forums, which are ISA: What were the primary of the local resources are available to always welcome. considerations and challenges the developer—everything happens With regard to testing, in addition encountered when creating the on the server which means things can to the traditional unit, application, and user experience design for the ISA be slow. With desktop applications, user experience testing, Microsoft has Windows Store app? all the local resources are available included a certification test to validate Wheat: The user experience of a so applications have access to critical a new Windows Store app before it Windows Store app is a blend of WPF systems components. With the is submitted to the Windows Store. and HTML5. This is a natural merging Windows Store app development This certification test ensures that not of the two presentation layers, but process, developers must be prepared to only does the Windows Store app it also requires extra effort to blend walk a careful path between requesting pass for standard functionality—such the two user experience models resources for optimum performance and as starting up, shutting down, and into a seamless whole. The resulting user concerns about excessive security responding to user input—but that it application must merge both modal authorization for desktop resources. is also categorized correctly and does desktop interfaces with modeless Web not impose unnecessary resource interfaces to ensure the best of both Intel® Software demands. The tests evaluate everything worlds in the final application. Adrenaline App from startup speed, to splash-screen now available on validation, to suspend and resume ISA: What challenges arose during iOS*, Android* functionality. About the only things the coding of the Windows Store platforms, Kindle*, that the automated test can’t check app for Intel, and how did you and Windows* 8. Download the app at: at the moment—although this may resolve them? software.intel.com/sites/billboard/app change—are exception rollbacks and Wheat: The biggest coding challenge step-back functionality that might be was to ensure that the proper security used with IntelliTrace*. models and modes were adhered to. With Web applications, almost none

Intel® Software Adrenaline 56 Comic Director Create, edit, view, and share with touch

omic Director is a Getting It Right from browser or with our Facebook app. Our By John Microsoft Windows* 8 the Start best people worked on Comic Director Hedtke UI Touch app (formerly and it’s been a fun challenge.” known as Metro app) The development of this application Comic Director was optimized developed for Intel began with the creation of user personas for Windows 8 right from the start. by Ratio Interactive and a complete picture of the typical Because the app was developed on that makes it easy to product users. The entire product was the Intel® Atom™ processor (made to create, edit, view, and wireframed, and the UI was completely run on Windows 8 tablets) and the share great-looking designed and polished before coding Ultrabook™ device, the developers were comics. You can use your own photos began. And because the app was able to quickly see how it performed Cand video from files (or from an onboard designed and developed in an iterative, on Intel® architecture. Cushing added, camera) to create a one-, two-, or four- agile way, the team was able to more “We collaborated with Intel to build a panel comic strip that illustrates a life effectively plan each step in the building cleanly-designed user interface. All the event or story. With touch or keyboard process. As a result, Comic Director is forces came together: business, creative, and mouse, you can enter text, make a intuitive and easy to use. marketing, and technical. We knew the freestyle drawing, use a wide range of Comic Director is a hybrid app with a app would be running on robust Intel effects—such as sepia and half-toning— front end that uses HTML5, JavaScript*, systems with powerful chipsets, so we and add from a library of clip art, stickers, and C#. The back end is cloud-based, so were able to tailor high-end features that and monsters. One of the best features is users can publish and display the comic took full advantage of the hardware.” being able to edit your comic’s video clips strips they create. According to Cody directly in Comic Director. Cushing, senior software development Both fun and educational, the first engineer and Windows 8 development Uploading Faster release of Comic Director is primarily a manager at Ratio Interactive, “As with H.264 content creation app aimed at 14- to a connected content creation app, 20-year olds. They’ll learn how to create we leverage many capabilities of the Because Comic Director is optimized and curate content and to work in a Windows 8 platform. We get content with the H.264 audio/video codec, the cloud-based environment. Finished from the cloud, content from the file ability to add video clips to the comic comic strips can be uploaded to the picker, and there’s content baked into strip is a major advantage that sets Comic cloud portal and shared on Facebook* the app. Comic Director has a lot of Director apart from similar apps. (H.264 is with the entire world. Users can also moving parts and integration points. In a popular codec that’s been incorporated browse other comics in the cloud portal addition to the rich Windows 8 client on Intel® processors as Intel® Quick Sync (check them out at ComicDirector.com) app, we have cloud services where users Video. It’s also part of the HTML5 standard or the mirrored Facebook site and vote publish their comics. A Web app allows for the

Intel® Software Adrenaline 57 Ratio Interactive

Apart from its ease-of-use, H.264 Adding to the Flair is a scalable video codec that provides ounded in 2005 Ratio Interactive has a track record of strong video compression, dramatically Another one of Comic Director’s major designing and creating leading-edge mobile and content reducing the size of video clips for advantages, which is helping to build management apps. Some of their past successes storage and uploading. Users can its social media potential, is that users Finclude the Mindbloom Life Game*, which helps people quickly move content from the native can suggest features for new versions. improve and balance their lives while they play; TruView*, application in the device to the Comic “We’re producing a lot of art for users Visible Technologies’ program for controlling and managing Director.com server portal. The codec to include in comics,” Cushing said, one’s reputation in major search engines; and Pirq*, an iOS* and compresses the video and digital “and we optimized the touch-enabled Android* app, which guides users in locating the best deals on images, reducing the file size; when interface to make comic creation easy. purchases. More recently, Ratio Interactive has been working the file returns to the server, the Users get a pre-existing library of fun with Microsoft on developing Windows 8 versions of iOS apps codec re-opens the file for publishing. art, overlays, and more. We focused on such as iCookbook* and Naturespace*. As Jason Powell, Microsoft alliance producing these assets to make comic marketing manager at Intel and founder creation really fun.” of the Comic Director app said, “The responsiveness is unique, and it’s a great Download the free Comic Director app thing we want other ISVs to follow and today at the Microsoft Windows store: use. We hope this app shows the ISV www.windowsstore.com Today’s Windows . . . community that the Intel-based codec optimized for Intel architecture will n addition to desktop and laptop support, Windows* 8 has result in a great user experience.” a touch-interface built in, which supports both touch and Each comic that users export is ABOUT THE AUTHOR keyboard and mouse input. It includes many other features actually a multimedia package in one John Hedtke is an award-winning author Ithat support mobile devices, such as cloud integration, a file, with edited video, pictures, graphics, who is closing in on 8 million published Windows Store, Windows 8 Search, and the new Charms bar. and text. This makes H.264 a good words in 26 books and hundreds of choice for devices that may have limited manuals, articles, online help systems, and connectivity or storage. “For H.264, we white papers. In addition to writing for . . . and HTML5. knew Comic Director would be used RH+M3, John teaches writing classes on mobile devices, so being able to remotely with the University of California, esigned with mobile devices in mind, HTML5 has optimize the video on a device was an Riverside, and is a Fellow of the Society for many new elements, such as ,

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