Intel and Nokia are preparing the 3D on mobiles

A research center on 3D interfaces has been developed jointly by Intel and Nokia in a Finnish university. On the menu: the process more «interactive», holograms, and especially the operation of the software platform Meego. Nokia will need to successfully deal with Apple and Google in smartphones.

Back to school 2010-2011, University of Oulu, Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia, was enriched with an Intel and Nokia Joint Innovation Center, located in the «Centre of Excellence of the Internet» ( Internet Centre for Excellence, ICE), established in 2009. The founder of specialist processor and manufacturer of mobile partner to develop interfaces to phones. The laboratory is financially supported by Tekes Finnish aid agency in technological innovation, which has already worked with Nokia.

Assigned the first subject to "two dozen researchers," according to press the university and Intel 3D graphics will serve "more realistic interfaces. For Intel, the emergence of 3D one day represent a major milestone in the history of the Internet and in Finland, research in the field of 3D interfaces is active. The focus of the University of Oulu in electronics and photonics is the ideal place for this center, "said Justin Rattner, director of Intel Labs.

A dream of SF soon with us?

Developments rely on the operating system Meego, which brings together two projects, the Nokia Maemo and Moblin for Intel, both derived from Linux. Designed for netbooks, it could run on smartphones, an area where Nokia still number one on the low end, has doubled in recent years by Google and its Android and Apple and its iPhone. Meego was presented in February 2010 and placed in open-source, the goodwill of developers that have somewhat neglected Symbian, Nokia system.

Researchers have another theme of work, more distant: the hologram. Intel imagines a phone that would display an image of the speaker, and floating in three dimensions. The firm concedes that this vision is now science fiction, but research technique is it not the way to realize dreams?

Moreover, as shown at the bottom of this article's image of Chinese Kingyo Mercator, designers, as when the car is to imagine the future, are often ahead of the engineers ...